Living-learning programs and first-generation college students' academic and social transition to college

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-434

  Inkelas, Karen Kurotsuchi ^a   Daver, Zaneeta E ^a   Vogt, Kristen E ^b   Leonard, Jeannie Brown ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

First generation students; Living learning programs; Transition to college

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847286436     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-006-9031-6     Document Type: Article

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