In 2016, the US Department of Education reported that less than 20 percent of the country’s K-12 teaching workforce are teachers of color compared to a 50 percent representation among its student population. In the summer of 2021, Lourdes University established Like Me: Diversifying the Educator Workforce One Student at a Time.
The mission of the Like Me program is to attract, prepare, and mentor students of color to obtain employment in our partner schools to address the significant disparity between students of color and teachers of color.