Does Community College Versus Four-Year College Attendance Influence Students' Educational Plans?

Journal of College Student Development

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-193

  Pascarella, Ernest T ^b   Edison, Marcia ^a   Nora, Amaury ^c   Hagedorn, Linda Serra ^c   Terenzini, Patrick T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NONE

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