Cooling out in the community college: What is the effect of academic advising on students' chances of success?

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 704-732

  Bahr, Peter Riley ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advising; Community college; Context; Cooling out; Counseling; Developmental education; Event history analysis; Inequality; Mathematics; Race; Racial composition; Remedial education; Remediation; Skill composition; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349143231     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-008-9100-0     Document Type: Article

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