Role of scholarships in improving success rates of undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages 458-464

  Navarra Madsen, Junalyn ^a   Bales, Rodney A ^c   Hynds, DiAnna L ^b  

^a Mathematics and Computer Science   (United States)

^b TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ethno Evaluation Enterprises   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Completion rates; GPA; Retention; Student support services; Success rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651249655     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.12.063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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