Student Literacy Corps continues Loretto legacy
Posted on November 13, 2024, by Loretto Community
Posted by The Journal, November 10, 2024
Webster University was founded by the Sisters of Loretto in 1915. If you aren’t familiar with the Loretto community, its mission then, as it is now, is to work for justice, always viewing education as the most effective means to that end.
In 1990, two more very determined women built on the foundation created by the sisters. School of Education professors, Jeri Levesque and Theresa Prosser, created the Student Literacy Corps (SLC) tutoring program as a course with an extensive field-experience component. While their goal was to educate future teachers, their mission was to address educational inequities in our community, so tutoring took place in urban schools in low-income neighborhoods.
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Our legacy is a small group of nuns who turned an apple orchard into a university. If they could do that, just imagine what you can do!
You can read the full letter to the editor on The Journal’s website.
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