Disequilibrium and resolution: The nonlinear effects of diversity courses on well-being and orientations toward diversity

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 543-568

  Bowman, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 77954707965     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: 10907009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.0.0172     Document Type: Article

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