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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
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Autobiography and Community: A Personal Journey
Tinto, Vincent
Learning Communities: Research & Practice, v1 n2 Article 7 2013
Our personal and professional lives intersect: the story of how one young man dropped out of a doctoral program in physics to figure out what to do about the continuing problem of dropout in higher education.
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Graduate Students, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Low Income Students, Immigrants, Social Isolation, Working Class, Financial Problems, Dropout Rate, Student Research
Evergreen State College's Washington Center, the National Resource for Learning Communities. 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, SEM II E2115, Olympia, WA 98505. Tel: 360-864-6606; Fax: 360-867-6662; e-mail: washcenter@evergreen.edu; Web site: http://washingtoncenter.evergreen.edu/lcrpjournal/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York
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