"I would have rather paid for a class i wanted to take": Utilitarian approaches at a community college

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-382

  Cox, Rebecca D ^a  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 68149100891     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.0.0065     Document Type: Article

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