2. Current Issue in Higher Education Enrollment of Latino/Hispanic students has increased over the years yet many Latino/Hispanic students never finish earning their degrees and leave college due to feelings of isolation and not feeling integrated in the university community.
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4. Mentors must have participated in the program prior to becoming a mentor.
5. New students will be assigned to a mentor during the summer prior to their 1st semester.
9. Mentors will attend a resource retreat where they will be able to identify many of the resources available to them as students.
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11. Build a sense of family among Latino/Hispanic students, faculty, administrators and alumni that will encourage full participation within the larger university community.
12. Provide venues for discussion about what it means to be Latino/Hispanic locally and globally.
23. When developing programming, using the (MID) model can inform the types of events you will create and help establish a target audience.
24. Being aware of the theory may inform how you pair up mentors and mentees that share similarities in cultural competence, upbringing/background and identity.
25. Understanding of the theory may allow you to reach out to certain students before they consider leaving college.
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27. MID model transcends racial lines and was designed to apply to all minorities because it is a conceptual framework.
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29. Pre & post tests to determine how students identify.
