My Experience In The Student Affairs Profession

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My goal was to become more aware of the Hispanic or Latino/a ethnicity, which is a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American race/ethnicity college students experience in a predominately white college or institution. I have confidence in what I have learned that differences are valuable and learning about other people’s ethnicity/culture will help me in the Student Affairs Profession. I will do this by my first objective of learning about the Hispanic or Latino/a ethnicity/culture. Through self-examination and challenging my own biases and worldview of the Hispanic or Latino/a culture. Then I will share what I have learned reading the book Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories how the students

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