The adult male undergraduate student experience: Real men do return to school

Journal of Continuing Higher Education

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 15-24

  Widoff, Janet C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33846796992     PISSN: 07377363     EISSN: 19484801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07377366.1999.10400371     Document Type: Article

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