Institutional transformation in STEM: Insights from change research and the Keck-PKAL project

Transforming Institutions: Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 35-47

  Cezar, Adrianna ^a   Holcombe, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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