Yolanda Christiansen and Jeanine Lynch, both currently teaching in the Johnston school district, continue to use tools learned in Drake University School of Education graduate programs to create innovative, forward-looking classrooms.

The Comparative Management and Policy Analysis in A Global Context course, which this year focused on food policy as it relates to social justice, hunger and sustainability, recently took graduate students and alumni through six European countries over 18 days.

Drake’s retooled Masters of Communications Leadership Program allows students to take courses through the School of Journalism and Mass Communications as well as the College of Business and Public Administration.