Strategic Alliance for Latino Student Action (SALSA)
SALSA is designed to recruit more Latino high school
students for college and to facilitate closer and
more effective networking/events coordination between
Latino student organizations on campuses across the
United States. SALSA will provide the means through
which lasting bonds between the next generation of
Latino leaders can be strengthened. As the best educated
generation in the history of Latinos in the United
States, it is imperative that today's student leaders
be able to utilize modern technology to interact more
closely with each other and collaborate of activities
of national significance.
Organization Benefits
Participating organizations will be able to:
- register with USHLI to access a broad base of
Latino student organizations from coast to coast
- participate in a special networking/job fair reception
exclusively for SALSA members at the USHLI national
conference
- promote and organize USHLI-sponsored Collegiate
Leadership Development Programs on their campuses
- share information on cultural awareness program
activities
- exchange ideas regarding university-related issues
Career Day Partnerships
On a larger scale participating organizations will
be invited to partner with USHLI in organizing and
hosting a series of Career Days for high school students.
During Hispanic Heritage Month participating organizations
will co-sponsor, together with USHLI, a Career Day
for high school students living in the immediate vicinity
of their college campus. Career Day activities are
important because they enable young Hispanics to visit
college campuses, interact with students from similar
backgrounds, and demystify the college experience
by enabling students to visualize themselves as college
students. This is extremely important, especially
in cases where that high school student would be the
first in his/her family to attend college, which is
still the case in most instances. Career Day will
provide the opportunity for high school students to
learn what is required of them while they are still
in junior high and high school. Hispanic college students
will serve as presenters, facilitators, and tour guides.
Junior high and high school students will have the
opportunity what careers in a variety of occupations
and professions may entail, including but not limited
to teaching, counseling, social service, law, medicine,
engineering, marketing, advertising, journalism, media
relations, law enforcement, computer science, finance,
business, international relations, etc.
Media and Hispanic Heritage Month
By tying this activity to Hispanic Heritage Month,
participating schools will be able to attract greater
media attention to the work college students and their
respective organizations are doing to help more Hispanic
students pursue training or higher education beyond
high school. By attracting public and media attention
to this activity, participating organizations will
call attention to the needs of Hispanic high school
students. This will bring greater awareness to the
need for Hispanic students to complete high school,
and to see high school graduation not as the completion
of their education but the beginning of a world of
opportunities in exciting careers. Hispanic Heritage
Month is the one-time in the year when the entire
nation is asked to focus on the Hispanic community.
While it is important to celebrate our many accomplishments
as a community, it is also an ideal time to call attention
to the greatest problem facing the Hispanic community
- the need for more and better education.
USHLI SALSA contacts include:
Dr. Juan Andrade at docandrade@ushli.org
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