Racial differences in the effects of campus racial climate on degree completion: A structural equation model

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 107-134

  Museus, Samuel D ^a   Nichols, Andrew H ^b   Lambert, Amber D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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