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Attrition Study

Our thanks to your readers who have expressed a strong interest in our ongoing national study, "Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Undergraduate Majors" (The Scientist, Feb. 3, 1992, page 1). People who would like a copy of the report to our funders, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, on the first phase of the study should contact us directly at: The Bureau of Sociological Research, University of Colorado, Campus Box 580, Boulder, Colo. 80309-05

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Our thanks to your readers who have expressed a strong interest in our ongoing national study, "Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates Among Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Undergraduate Majors" (The Scientist, Feb. 3, 1992, page 1). People who would like a copy of the report to our funders, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, on the first phase of the study should contact us directly at: The Bureau of Sociological Research, University of Colorado, Campus Box 580, Boulder, Colo. 80309-0580; (303) 492-0084.

We apologize in advance that, because the funds available to reproduce and distribute the report have been outstripped by the demand for it, we have to charge $15 a copy.

NANCY M. HEWITT
ELAINE SEYMOUR
Department of Sociology
Bureau of Sociological Research
University of Colorado Boulder

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