What Difference Does a Major Make? The Influence of College Major Field on Persistence by African American and White Students

By Edward P. St. John, Shouping Hu, Ada B. Simmons, D. Carter, Jeff Weber. 2004

139 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. Stephen R. Porter
2. Paul D. Umbach
3. C. Adelman
4. Nicholas A. Bowman
5. N. Denson
6. Julie J. Park
7. Carol A. Lundberg
8. Corbin M. Campbell

In Social Psychology

1. Stephen R. Porter
2. C. Adelman
3. Paul D. Umbach

Citations in the corpus

• Executive Summary: The Toolbox Revisited--Paths to Degree Completion from High School through College. (2006, background): “As Tinto (1987) noted, “The point of retention efforts is not merely that individuals be kept in college, but that they be retained so as to be further educated.”
• COLLEGE MAJOR CHOICE: An Analysis of Person–Environment Fit (2006, background): “For example, several authors note the impact that departmental culture and climate have on student learning, satisfaction, and persistence (Cameron and Ettington, 1988; Hartnett and Centra, 1977; Pascarella, Ethington, and Smart, 1988; St. John et al., 2004).”