A case study of retention practices at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 412-416

  Crenshaw, Tanya L ^a   Metcalf, Heather ^b   Chambers, Erin Wolf ^a   Thakkar, Umesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advising; Diversity; Graduate; Mentoring; Retention; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

ADVISING; DIVERSITY; GRADUATE; MENTORING; RETENTION; UNDERGRADUATE;

COMPUTERS; STUDENTS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 57449090624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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