Testing tinto: How do retention theories work for first-generation, working-class students?

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 407-420

  Longwell Grice, Robert ^a   Longwell Grice, Hope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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EID: 45849145440     PISSN: 15210251     EISSN: 15414167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/CS.9.4.a     Document Type: Article

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