Book description
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 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 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.
