Affiliation:
1. Texas State University, USA
2. Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, USA
Abstract
As essential members of the academy, student affairs professionals help students to build connections between their studies and the co-curricular environment. As student demographics at colleges and universities become more diverse, student affairs administrators—especially at the senior level—remain overwhelmingly white. Due to the imbalance that exists, Black student affairs professionals are more likely to be recruited and mentored into the field by white administrators. This chapter presents a review of issues present of a cross-racial mentoring dyad between a Black student affairs practitioner and a white mentor to better understand how identity and racial consciousness shaped their ongoing relationship.