Description
Book SynopsisEducators have long been concerned with retaining students and helping them succeed, but their focus has been primarily on first-year students. Recently, this focus has widened to include a frequently invisible population - second-year students.
Shedding Light on Sophomores: An Exploration of the Second College Year turns our attention to this often-forgotten student population. This volume draws on campus-based and national research to describe the second college year and the initiatives designed to support it. Campus case studies offer a more detailed look at programs designed to help sophomores succeed, and a concluding chapter offers recommendations for the development of a range of initiatives in the second college year. Shedding Light on Sophomores offers a rich resource for any educator who cares about the status of second-year students and is committed to designing programs and services to support them.
Trade Review“This relatively short monograph will be useful to institutions seeking a starting point for sophomore year initiatives as well as for those that are in the early stages of development. …the best practices contained in the chapters can be beneficial and adapted to a variety of colleges and universities.” —
The Journal of College Orientation and Transition
