Rethinking cooling out at public community colleges: An examination of fiscal and demographic trends in higher education and the rise of statewide articulation agreements

Teachers College Record

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 422-451

  Anderson, Gregory M ^a   Alfonso, Mariana ^b   Sun, Jeffrey C ^c,d  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d Department of Educational Leadership ^*

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EID: 33645289945     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: 14679620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9620.2006.00657.x     Document Type: Review

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