Making the Case for Real Diversity: Redefining Underrepresented Minority Students in Public Universities

SAGE Open

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Mukherji, B Runi ^a   Neuwirth, Lorenz S ^a   Limonic, Laura ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

2 year public colleges; 4 year public colleges; diversity and multiculturalism; education; first generation college (FGC) students; first generation immigrant (FGI) students; foreign born U.S. populations; social sciences; teaching; U.S. immigrants; undergraduate college education; underrepresented minority (URM) students

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021760252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244017707796     Document Type: Article

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