Caldwell, T. D., & Foster, K. P., & Lane, T. B., & Caldwell, R. A., & Vergara, C. E., & Sticklen, J. (2011, June), What Happens After a Summer Bridge Program: The DPO Scholars Program  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2--18713

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  Caldwell, T. D., \& Foster, K. P., \& Lane, T. B., \& Caldwell, R. A., \& Vergara, C. E., \& Sticklen, J. (2011, June), \emph{What Happens After a Summer Bridge Program: The DPO Scholars Program}
  Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC.
  10.18260/1-2--18713

Theodore Demetrius Caldwell, Kyle P. Foster, Tonisha Brandy Lane, Rickey Alfred Caldwell Jr, Claudia Elena Vergara, and Jon Sticklen.  "What Happens After a Summer Bridge Program: The DPO Scholars Program".  2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2011.  https://peer.asee.org/18713 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_18713}
  Theodore Demetrius Caldwell, Kyle P. Foster, Tonisha Brandy Lane, Rickey Alfred Caldwell Jr, Claudia Elena Vergara, and Jon Sticklen.
  "What Happens After a Summer Bridge Program: The DPO Scholars Program".
  \emph{2011 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Vancouver, BC, 2011, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2011.
  https://peer.asee.org/18713 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

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