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Book SynopsisHelping 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.
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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 challe
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Exhibit xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Authors and Contributors xv
Introduction 1
John N. Gardner, Jerry A. Pattengale, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Mary Stuart Hunter
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS 11
1 Understanding the Impact of the Second Year of College 13
Molly A. Schaller
2 Keys to Student Success: A Look at the Literature 30
Kirsten Kennedy, M. Lee Upcraft
3 Factors That Contribute to Sophomore Success and Satisfaction 43
Laurie A. Schreiner
4 College Sophomores: The Journey into Self 66
Molly A. Schaller
PART TWO: APPROACHES FOR ENGAGING SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS 81
5 Academic Advising: Helping Sophomores Succeed 83
Virginia N. Gordon
6 Promoting Career Success in the Second Year of College 99
Paul A. Gore, Jr., Mary Stuart Hunter
7 Curricular Approaches for the Intellectual Development of Second-Year Students 114
Scott E. Evenbeck, Sharon J. Hamilton
8 The Critical Role of Faculty and Faculty Development in Sophomore Success 129
Laurie A. Schreiner
9 Service-Learning in the Sophomore Year 146
Steven G. Jones, Robert W. Franco
10 The Potential of Study Abroad in the Sophomore Year 163
Susan Buck Sutton, Stephanie L. Leslie
11 Undergraduate Research: A Powerful Pedagogy to Engage Sophomores 177
Kathryn J. Wilson, Mary Crowe
12 Residential Learning in the Sophomore Year 189
Jimmie Gahagan, Mary Stuart Hunter
13 Spirituality, Meaning Making, and the Sophomore-Year Experience 203
Jennifer A. Lindholm
PART THREE: CAMPUS PRACTICE AND IMPLICATIONS 215
14 Designing and Implementing New Initiatives for Sophomores 217
Julie Tetley, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Edward K. Chan
15 Assessment: Evaluating Second-Year Programs 234
Ann M. Gansemer-Topf, Jerry A. Pattengale
16 Recommendations to Improve Sophomore Student Success 248
John N. Gardner, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Mary Stuart Hunter
Appendix A Summary of Hierarchical Regression Analyses in Private Institutions: 2007 Survey of Sophomores 257
Appendix B The Sophomore Student Success Initiative: Questions for Discussion Between Resident Advisor and Sophomore Students 263
Appendix C Principles of Good Assessment 267
References 270
Names Index 297
Subject Index 303
