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Reaching the New SamaritanLeading a "Latin@ Friendly" Campus 

Carlos Campo

CCCU Presidents’ Conference

January 2011

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Some ContextNew Samaritans?

“Latin@ Friendly”?

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A welcoming environment is reflected in:

Practices

People

Programs

Places

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PracticesFrom marketing through commencement and career placement, your institution’s practices reflect your commitment to Latin@ student success; these are “second mile” practices.

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PeopleFrom bilingual recruiters and operators to Hispanic faculty and administration, your people reflect your ethos and commitment

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Programs How does your catalog/curriculum reflect

your determination that you value Latin@ culture and heritage?

Parent outreach programs? Pre-college outreach programs? Orientations for students in the first year

of college? Role model building programs and peer

mentoring?

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PlacesStudent support services and

advisement centers?

Latin@ centers?

Integrated focus on campus space and life?

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Casting a Wide NetProject GRAD

The Posse Foundation

Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQUE)

The Puente Project (CA)

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Are you Latin@ Friendly campus?Focus Group?

‘Secret Shopper’?

Working group to identify ways to be more flexible and responsive to Latin@ students’ needs?

Form a Latin@ student organization(s)?

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Are you Latin@ Friendly campus?

Review / streamline application and registration processes

Special Web pages / information

Scholarship opportunities

Class times sensitive to working adults

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Presidential LeadershipSpeaking/volunteering at Latin@

churches/community centers

Identifying appropriate corporate, governmental and private partners

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The Need: Recent CCCU Report RevealsCCCU alumni are less than satisfied with their

ability to relate well to people from other backgrounds…In open-end comments about what they would change regarding their undergraduate experience, many CCCU graduates implied that they expected a more diverse student body than what they actually encountered.

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Reaching the New Samaritan

Leading a "Latin@ Friendly" Campus 

Carlos Campoccampo@regent.edu

757-352-4015