'This Works': The 'Testimonios' of Latino Faculty-Student Mentoring Experiences through 'Pláticas'

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Title: 'This Works': The 'Testimonios' of Latino Faculty-Student Mentoring Experiences through 'Pláticas'
Language: English
Authors: Stephen Santa-Ramirez (ORCID 0000-0001-5283-2333), Anthony Vargas
Source: Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. 2025 18(5):645-661.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 17
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Advisers, Mentors, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, Graduate Students, Teacher Attitudes
Geographic Terms: New York (Buffalo)
DOI: 10.1037/dhe0000610
ISSN: 1938-8926
1938-8934
Abstract: Sharing their "testimonios" via "pláticas" (dialogic conversations), guided by embodied counterspace, the authors share their successful mutually benefiting faculty-student mentoring relationship experiences as two Latino men with shared identities and lived realities. Three questions guided the study: (1) How do we consistently show up and look out for each other in our mentoring relationship? (2) How does our mentoring relationship act as an embodied counterspace? (3) In what other ways do we humanize and create embodied counterspaces in our mentoring relationship that make this work effectively? Recommendations are shared for higher education agents to consider when building and maintaining mentoring relationships centering platonic love, trust, advocacy, cultural familiarity, and humanization.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2026
Accession Number: EJ1504614
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:Sharing their "testimonios" via "pláticas" (dialogic conversations), guided by embodied counterspace, the authors share their successful mutually benefiting faculty-student mentoring relationship experiences as two Latino men with shared identities and lived realities. Three questions guided the study: (1) How do we consistently show up and look out for each other in our mentoring relationship? (2) How does our mentoring relationship act as an embodied counterspace? (3) In what other ways do we humanize and create embodied counterspaces in our mentoring relationship that make this work effectively? Recommendations are shared for higher education agents to consider when building and maintaining mentoring relationships centering platonic love, trust, advocacy, cultural familiarity, and humanization.
ISSN:1938-8926
1938-8934
DOI:10.1037/dhe0000610