I teach my courses with the goal of helping each student be successful. Success will be different for each student.

My experience teaching at a CC has been very positive. However, I have encounter situations where I felt I was not prepared to confront the prejudice from the person on the other side. One time, I was told to use an office that was in the library (due to not having space at the main office). Once I got to the office dedicated to counselors at the library, I was approached by a person who asked me why I was in that place. I explained that I am a counselor and I will be using the counselor's office. That person asked me to show my ID. After seeing my ID, she called the main counseling office to "verify" that I was indeed a counselor authorized to be in that office alone.

Situations like this one, put me back to think "I do not look like a professor or a counselor" maybe I should not feel discriminated against because after all I may not look like a counselor. I thought I should starting to dress up to be able to "look like" a counselor.