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Title: A Bridge to Marine Geosciences: A Learning Community for College Transfer Students
Students enrolling in community colleges often represent more diverse populations, come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, and have frequently followed non-traditional pathways into higher education as compared to first-year students at four-year institutions. Community colleges (CC) are also an important route toward STEM careers for students of high potential from marginalized communities (Mooney and Foley, 2011). Early exposure to geoscience at four-year institutions is an effective means of recruitment to these sciences (Stokes et al., 2015), but CC students rarely have the opportunity to take marine science courses.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2231647
PAR ID:
10544050
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Corporate Creator(s):
Publisher / Repository:
The Oceanography Society
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Oceanography
Volume:
36
Issue:
4
ISSN:
1042-8275
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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