Helping Sophomores Succeed: Understanding and Improving the Second Year Experience - Hardcover

National Resource center for the first-year experience® andstudents 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, comprehensiveunderstanding of the common challenges that arise in a student'ssecond year of college. Sponsored by the University of SouthCarolina's National Resource Center for The First-YearExperience® and Students in Transition, this groundbreakingbook offers an examination of second-year student success andsatisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures fromnational research findings. Helping Sophomores Succeed serves as afoundation for designing programs and services for the second-yearstudent population that will help to promote retention, academicand career development, and personal transition and growth.

Praise for Helping Sophomores Succeed

"Lost, lonely, stressed, pressured, unsupported, frequentlyindecisive, and invisible, many sophomores fall off the radar ofcampus educators at a time when they may most be seeking purpose,meaning, direction, intellectual challenge, and intellectualcapacity building. The fine scholars who focused educators on thefirst-year and senior transitions have done it again—amagnificent book to focus on the sophomore year!"
—Susan R. Komives, College Student Personnel Program,University of Maryland

"For years, student-centered institutions have front-loadedresources to promote student success in the first college year.This volume is rich with instructive ideas for how to sustain thisimportant work in the second year of college."
—George D. Kuh, Chancellor's Professor and director, IndianaUniversity Center for Postsecondary Research

"A pioneering work, this brilliant text explores in practicaland meaningful ways the all but neglected sophomore-yearexperience, when students face critical choices about their major,their profession, their life purpose."
—Betty L. Siegel, president emeritus, Kennesaw StateUniversity?

"All members of the campus community—faculty, studentaffairs educators, staff, and students—will benefit fromlearning about the unique challenges of the second college year.The book provides research and best practices to help educators andstudents craft an integrated, comprehensive approach to helpingsecond-year students succeed."
—Marcia Baxter Magolda, distinguished professor, EducationalLeadership, Miami University

The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience®and Students in Transition supports and advances efforts to improvestudent learning and transitions into and through higher educationby providing opportunities for the exchange of practical,theory-based information and ideas.