Validation of a bicultural orientation model for Hispanic college students

The number of Hispanic students in higher education and in the population o f the United States is growing. Practitioners in the field of student affai rs have produced few research studies about this population of students. Th is study included 372 Hispanic college students from 4 institutions. The re sults of the study verify the Bicultural Orientation Model as a tool for id entifying Hispanic college students' cultural orientation. The four cultura l orientation quadrants are Bicultural Orientation, Angio Orientation, Hisp anic Orientation, and Marginal Orientation.