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The study--led by Xueli Wang, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Education--followed nearly 700 women in STEM programs at two-year colleges in the Midwest and found that students' ethnic background, marital status, and childcare obligations influenced their decision to transfer to a four-year institution. For example, though a positive relationship existed between black women's transfer-oriented interaction and their intention to transfer, they were less likely than white women to declare their intent to transfer until they reported a moderate level of trans- fer-oriented interaction, such as using campus resources or having contact with advisors or instructors to gather information about transferring.