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Improving College Access and Completion for Low-Income and First-Generation Students: The Role of College Access and Success Programs

University of Pennsylvania / April 2015

Improving College Acces

Testimony Provided to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Committee on Education and the Workforce United States House of Representatives by Laura W. Perna, University of Pennsylvania 

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