Testing race-neutral admissions models: Lessons from California State University-Long Beach

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Rendón, Laura I ^a   Novack, Vincent ^b   Dowell, David ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSU Long Beach ^*

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EID: 84860071842     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2004.0038     Document Type: Review

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