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 "e;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!"e; ?Susan R. Komives, College Student Personnel Program, University of Maryland "e;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."e; ?George D. Kuh, Chancellor's Professor and director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research "e;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."e; ?Betty L. Siegel, president emeritus, Kennesaw State University? "e;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."e; ?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.

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 purposemeaning, direction, intellectual challenge, and intellectualcapacity building. The fine scholars who focused educators on thefirst-year and senior transitions have done it again?a magnificentbook to focus on the sophomore year!"?Susan R. Komives, College Student Personnel Program, University ofMaryland"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 practical andmeaningful ways the all but neglected sophomore-year experiencewhen students face critical choices about their major, theirprofession, their life purpose."?Betty L. Siegel, president emeritus, Kennesaw State University?"All members of the campus community?faculty, student affairseducators, staff, and students?will benefit from learning about theunique challenges of the second college year. The book providesresearch and best practices to help educators and students craft anintegrated, comprehensive approach to helping second-year studentssucceed."?Marcia Baxter Magolda, distinguished professor, EducationalLeadership, Miami UniversityThe 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 practicaltheory-based information and ideas.

List of Tables and Exhibit xiAcknowledgments xiiiAuthors and Contributors xvIntroduction 1John N. Gardner, Jerry A. Pattengale, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Mary Stuart HunterPart One: Foundations 111 Understanding the Impact of the Second Year of College 13Molly A. Schaller2 Keys to Student Success: A Look at the Literature 30Kirsten Kennedy, M. Lee Upcraft3 Factors That Contribute to Sophomore Success and Satisfaction 43Laurie A. Schreiner4 College Sophomores: The Journey into Self 66Molly A. SchallerPart Two: Approaches for Engaging Second-year Students 815 Academic Advising: Helping Sophomores Succeed 83Virginia N. Gordon6 Promoting Career Success in the Second Year of College 99Paul A. Gore, Jr., Mary Stuart Hunter7 Curricular Approaches for the Intellectual Development of Second-Year Students 114Scott E. Evenbeck, Sharon J. Hamilton8 The Critical Role of Faculty and Faculty Development in Sophomore Success 129Laurie A. Schreiner9 Service-Learning in the Sophomore Year 146Steven G. Jones, Robert W. Franco10 The Potential of Study Abroad in the Sophomore Year 163Susan Buck Sutton, Stephanie L. Leslie11 Undergraduate Research: A Powerful Pedagogy to Engage Sophomores 177Kathryn J. Wilson, Mary Crowe12 Residential Learning in the Sophomore Year 189Jimmie Gahagan, Mary Stuart Hunter13 Spirituality, Meaning Making, and the Sophomore-Year Experience 203Jennifer A. LindholmPart Three: Campus Practice and Implications 21514 Designing and Implementing New Initiatives for Sophomores 217Julie Tetley, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Edward K. Chan15 Assessment: Evaluating Second-Year Programs 234Ann M. Gansemer-Topf, Jerry A. Pattengale16 Recommendations to Improve Sophomore Student Success 248John N. Gardner, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Mary Stuart HunterAppendix A Summary of Hierarchical Regression Analyses in Private Institutions: 2007 Survey of Sophomores 257Appendix B The Sophomore Student Success Initiative: Questions for Discussion Between Resident Advisor and Sophomore Students 263Appendix C Principles of Good Assessment 267References 270Names Index 297Subject Index 303