It's a much more collaborative way of teaching and learning. Iowa First Lady Christy Vilsack recently toured the Drake Adult Literacy Center in the School of Education and met with Lisa Walker, a new adult reader, and Angela Newhouse, a tutor. Both Walker and Newhouse serve on the center's advisory board. Vilsack said she came to Drake to find out more about the center's activities as part of her initiative to connect providers of literacy services statewide. At the Drake center, volunteers meet twice a week for an hour to assist adults who want to improve their literacy skills.
Volunteers receive training and ongoing information and support.
For more information or to volunteer, call Anne Murr at x3982. The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book that examines the nation's Constitution from both historical and contemporary vantage points will speak at Drake Law School on Monday, Oct. 23. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Constitutional Law Center's Distinguished Speakers Series. Rakove spent close to 12 years writing the book and says he wanted readers to understand what the ratifiers of the Constitution were engaged in. In addition to Original Meanings, Rakove has written three other books, contributed chapters to numerous scholarly collections, written essays for various law reviews and published a host of op-ed articles in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times , Chicago Tribune , Washington Post and New York Times .