How gender and race moderate the effect of interactions across difference on student perceptions of the campus environment

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 333-356

  Nelson Laird, Thomas F ^a   Niskodé Dossett, Amanda Suniti ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

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