Negotiating Class and Cultural Boundaries [electronic resource] : Toward an Expanded Definition of the Transfer Process. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper / Kathleen M. Shaw and Howard B. London.

As part of a larger exploration of the role of community colleges in bringing the poor, working class, and ethnic minorities into higher education, this study looked at how students and institutional cultures at four urban community colleges interacted to achieve unusually high transfer rates to fou...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author: Shaw, Kathleen M.
Other Authors: London, Howard B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995.
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650 0 7 |a Minority Groups.  |2 ericd. 
650 1 7 |a Social Mobility.  |2 ericd. 
650 1 7 |a Student College Relationship.  |2 ericd. 
650 0 7 |a Transfer Rates (College)  |2 ericd. 
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