Hunter / Tobolowsky / Gardner Helping Sophomores Succeed

Understanding and Improving the Second Year Experience
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-53852-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

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?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 experience,when 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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunter, Mary Stuart

Tobolowsky, Barbara F.

Gardner, John N.

Evenbeck, Scott E.

Pattengale, Jerry A.

Schaller, Molly

Schreiner, Laurie A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List 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