Helping Sophomores Succeed: Understanding and Improving the Second Year Experience

National Resource center for the first–year experience® and students in transition
Helping Sophomores Succeed
Understanding and Improving the Second–Year Experience
Mary Stuart Hunter
Barbara F. Tobolowsky
John N. Gardner
Scott E. Evenbeck, Jerry A. Pattengale, Molly A. Schaller, Laurie A. Schreiner, and Associates
Helping Sophomores Succeed
Helping Sophomores Succeed offers an in–depth, comprehensive understanding of the common challenges that arise in a student′s second year of college. Sponsored by the University of South Carolina′s National Resource Center for The First–Year Experience® and Students in Transition, this groundbreaking book offers an examination of second–year student success and satisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures from national research findings. Helping Sophomores Succeed serves as a foundation for designing programs and services for the second–year student population that will help to promote retention, academic and career development, and personal transition and growth.
Praise for Helping Sophomores Succeed
"Lost, lonely, stressed, pressured, unsupported, frequently indecisive, and invisible, many sophomores fall off the radar of campus educators at a time when they may most be seeking purpose, meaning, direction, intellectual challenge, and intellectual capacity building. The fine scholars who focused educators on the first–year and senior transitions have done it again—a magnificent book to focus on the sophomore year!"
—Susan R. Komives, College Student Personnel Program, University of Maryland
"For years, student–centered institutions have front–loaded resources to promote student success in the first college year. This volume is rich with instructive ideas for how to sustain this important work in the second year of college."
—George D. Kuh, Chancellor′s Professor and dire ctor, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research
"A pioneering work, this brilliant text explores in practical and meaningful ways the all but neglected sophomore–year experience, when students face critical choices about their major, their profession, their life purpose."
—Betty L. Siegel, president emeritus, Kennesaw State University?
"All members of the campus community—faculty, student affairs educators, staff, and students—will benefit from learning about the unique challenges of the second college year. The book provides research and best practices to help educators and students craft an integrated, comprehensive approach to helping second–year students succeed."
—Marcia Baxter Magolda, distinguished professor, Educational Leadership, Miami University
The National Resource Center for The First–Year Experience® and Students in Transition supports and advances efforts to improve student learning and transitions into and through higher education by providing opportunities for the exchange of practical, theory–based information and ideas.

Spis treści:
List of Tables and Exhibit.
Acknowledgments.
Authors and Contributors.
Introduction (John N. Gardner, Jerry A. Pattengale, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Mary Stuart Hunter).
Part One: Foundations.
1 Understanding the Impact of the Second Year of College (Molly A. Schaller).
2 Keys to Student Success: A Look at the Literature (Kirsten Kennedy, M. Lee Upcraft).
3 Factors That Contribute to Sophomore Success and Satisfaction (Laurie A. Schreiner).
4 College Sophomores: The Journey into Self (Molly A. Schaller).
Part Two: Approaches for Engaging Second–Year Students.
5 Academic Advising: Helping Sophomores Succeed (Virginia N. Gordon).
6 Promoting Career Success in the Second Year of College    (Paul A. Gore, Jr., Mary Stuart Hunter).
7 Curricular Approaches for the Intellectual Development of Second–Year Students (Scott E. Evenbeck, Sharon J. Hamilton).
8 The Critical Role of Faculty and Faculty Development in Sophomore Success (Laurie A. Schreiner).
9 Service Learning in the Sophomore Year (Steven G. Jones, Robert W. Franco).
10 The Potential of Study Abroad in the Sophomore Year (Susan Buck Sutton, Stephanie L. Leslie).
11 Undergraduate Research: A Powerful Pedagogy to Engage Sophomores (Kathryn J. Wilson, Mary Crowe).
12 Residential Learning in the Sophomore Year(Jimmie Gahagan, Mary Stuart Hunter).
13 Spirituality, Meaning Making, and the Sophomore Year Experience (Jennifer A. Lindholm).
Part Three: Campus Practice and Implications.
14 Designing and Implementing New Initiatives for Sophomores (Julie Tetley, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Edward K. Chan).
15 Assessment: Evaluating Second–Year Programs (Ann M. Gansemer–Topf, Jerry A. Pattengale).
16 Recommendations to Improve Sophomore Student Success (John N. Gardner, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Mary Stuart Hunter).
Appendix A Summary of Hierarchical Regression Analyses in Private Institutions: 2007 Survey of Sophomores.
Appendix B The Sophomore Student Success Initiative: Questions for Discussion Between Resident Advisor and Sophomore Students.
Appendix C Principles of Good Assessment.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.

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National Resource center for the first–year experience® and students in transition
Helping Sophomores Succeed
Understanding and Improving the Second–Year Experience
Mary Stuart Hunter
Barbara F. Tobolowsky
John N. Gardner
Scott E. Evenbeck, Jerry A. Pattengale, Molly A. Schaller, Laurie A. Schreiner, and Associates
Helping Sophomores Succeed
Helping Sophomores Succeed offers an in–depth, comprehensive understanding of the common challenges that arise in a student′s second year of college. Sponsor ed by the University of South Carolina′s National Resource Center for The First–Year Experience® and Students in Transition, this groundbreaking book offers an examination of second–year student success and satisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures from national research findings. Helping Sophomores Succeed serves as a foundation for designing programs and services for the second–year student population that will help to promote retention, academic and career development, and personal transition and growth.
Praise for Helping Sophomores Succeed
"Lost, lonely, stressed, pressured, unsupported, frequently indecisive, and invisible, many sophomores fall off the radar of campus educators at a time when they may most be seeking purpose, meaning, direction, intellectual challenge, and intellectual capacity building. The fine scholars who focused educators on the first–year and senior transitions have done it again—a magnificent book to focus on the sophomore year!"
—Susan R. Komives, College Student Personnel Program, University of Maryland
"For years, student–centered institutions have front–loaded resources to promote student success in the first college year. This volume is rich with instructive ideas for how to sustain this important work in the second year of college."
—George D. Kuh, Chancellor′s Professor and director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research
"A pioneering work, this brilliant text explores in practical and meaningful ways the all but neglected sophomore–year experience, when students face critical choices about their major, their profession, their life purpose."
—Betty L. Siegel, president emeritus, Kennesaw State University?
"All members of the campus community—faculty, student affairs educators, staff, and students—will benefit from learning about the unique challenges of the second college year. The