Mathematics Achievement Among African American Undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley: An Evaluation of the Mathematics Workshop Program

@article{Fullilove1990MathematicsAA,
  title={Mathematics Achievement Among African American Undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley: An Evaluation of the Mathematics Workshop Program},
  author={Robert E. Fullilove and Philip Uri Treisman},
  journal={Journal of Negro Education},
  year={1990},
  volume={59},
  pages={463}
}
Robert E. Fullilove, Director of the Community Core of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health in Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University; and Philip Uri Treisman, Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor of Social Change, Swarthmore College, and Director, Charles A. Dana Center for Innovation in Mathematics and Science, University of California, 
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