Institutional climate and student departure: A multinomial multilevel modeling approach

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-183

  Rhee, Byung Shik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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