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An Exploration across Institution Types of Undergraduate Life Sciences Student Decisions to Stay in or Leave an Academic-Year Research Experience

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Carolyn E. Clark

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Travis B. Roderick

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Rachel A. Scott

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Denisse Arellano

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Kimberly Velarde

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Allyson Aeschliman

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Sarah T. Avalle

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Jessica Berkheimer

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Michael Gerbasi

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Julie A. Roberts

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Ehren Wittekind

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Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281

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Katelyn M. Cooper

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Sara E. Brownell

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Published Online:30 Aug 2021https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.21-04-0108

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Submitted: 28 April 2021

Revised: 25 June 2021

Accepted: 30 June 2021

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© 2021 L. E. Gin et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2021 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

We thank the institutions that were willing to send out the survey to students and the students who took the time to share their opinions and experiences. We thank the first cohort of NSF LEAP Scholars along with Joshua Hunter for their help in designing the original survey. We also appreciate the members of Arizona State University’s Biology Education Research lab for their feedback on earlier versions of this work. We acknowledge the National Science Foundation S-STEM grant (no. 1644236) that supported our LEAP Scholars. L.E.G. was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (DGE-1311230).