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We thank the study participants for their invaluable contributions, as well as the staff of the S-STEM, LSAMP, BUILD EXITO, and Ronald E. McNair Scholars programs. We thank research assistant Dr. Julia Burrows and undergraduate researchers Lindsay Lutner, Nikki Nguyen, and Sandhya Gunarathne for their support in data collection and analysis, as well as Carly Busch for feedback on quantitative analyses and Figure construction. We also thank the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, in particular Michael Smith, for help in acquiring and assessing institutional data. This research was supported in part by an award to PI E.E.S. and co-PI S.E. under an NSF S-STEM grant (Award #1742542). We acknowledge that Portland State University occupies the ancestral homelands of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Watlala bands of the Chinook, and Tualatin Kalapuya, and continues to benefit from the theft and colonization of Indigenous lands.

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