1. Latino/Hispanic Peer Mentoring Program Juntos Podemos (Together We Can)

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.

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.

6. Mentors will have 5 mentees.

8. Mentors and mentees will be asked to keep a journal of their experiences.

9. Mentors will attend a resource retreat where they will be able to identify many of the resources available to them as students.

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.

13. Provide a home away from home.

15. Identify and receive available financial, academic and support services offered by the university.

16. Describe the diversity within the Latino/Hispanic community.

17. Run for leadership positions in various student organizations.

19. Dissonance

20. Resistance & Immersion

21. Introspection

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.

27. MID model transcends racial lines and was designed to apply to all minorities because it is a conceptual framework.

29. Pre & post tests to determine how students identify.

30. Journal writings may be evaluated as qualitative data.

31. Review of annual graduation rates and retention rates.

33. Students of Latin descent may not identify as ethnically Latino/Hispanic on their admissions application.

34. Comprehension or lack thereof of the Spanish language may unite some while outcast others.