First-year students: Embracing their diversity, enhancing our practice

Improving the First Year of College: Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 49-68

  Pope, Raechele L ^a   Miklitsch, Teresa A ^a   Weigand, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410611864-9     Document Type: Chapter

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