The contradictory roles of institutional status in retaining underrepresented minorities in biomedical and behavioral science majors

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 433-464

  Chang, Mitchell J ^a,c   Cerna, Oscar ^b   Han, June ^b   Sàenz, Victor ^b  

^a Higher Education and Organizational Change

^b GSE and IS ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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