Student Flow Between Community Colleges: Investigating Lateral Transfer

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-121

  Bahr, Peter Riley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal transfer; Lateral transfer; Parallel transfer; Simultaneous enrollment; Swirl; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855354903     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-011-9224-5     Document Type: Article

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