Implications of African American engineering student perceptions of campus climate factors

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Brown, A Ramona ^a   Morning, Carole ^b   Watkins, Charles B ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Higher Education Extension Service   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Diversity; Minority; Retention

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; DIVERSITY; MINORITY; RETENTION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 21644447160     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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