In an effort to meet its goal of breaking even by fiscal year 2027, Drake reduced employee benefits starting this past July and is encouraging departments to streamline their operations. Last spring, ...

Drake’s physics and astronomy department boasts a rich history, including graduate and former president of Drake Daniel Morehouse and a 102-year-old observatory. Today, students in the department have ...

Cheerleaders pop and lock and leap. Lights twinkle all about the stands. Fans covered in gold and purple chant, “Skol.” U.S. Bank Stadium is the place to be on Minnesota Vikings game day. Yet, Jillian ...

Drake University will begin renovations on the Olmsted Center in late May as part of The Ones campaign. After the completion of the Johansen Student Center in January 2025, Drake is turning its ...

Recently, the NCAA began to allow college athletes to receive direct compensation through their name, image and likeness (NIL). This change has completely reshaped NCAA scouting strategies. In the ...

The men’s and women’s basketball teams at Drake University are ramping up going into Thanksgiving break, and both Bulldog programs have been battling to get ahead in the Missouri Valley Conference ...

“Why can’t we have nice things?” Heather McGhee directed this question, poised in the first sentence of her new book, to the full crowd gathered at Sheslow Auditorium on Drake University’s campus on ...

After the Civil War, Union veterans staggered home to Des Moines with wounds, a newfound understanding of the world, and, most importantly, a little game that East Coast soldiers had taught them. Yet ...

The bylaws and Academic Charter act as the founding document and foundation of Drake University that everything else is built off of. It lists the mission statement and goals for the University and ...

Starting this fall, Drake University students can join men’s lacrosse, Drake’s newest premier club sport. The club sport stemmed from Drake’s continued commitment to expanding club and recreational ...

Ruth Harkin, wife of former Iowa senator Tom Harkin and one of the namesakes of the Harkin Institute at Drake, has been compiling her life stories for years, from being an early female county attorney ...

Davidson Kozlowski, the former head coach of the Drake men’s tennis team, has taken the head coaching position with Florida Gulf Coast University men’s tennis team. Kozlowski led the Bulldogs to ...