Helping sophomores succeed: understanding and improving the second year experience

After many years of attention to improving the first college year for students, colleges and university administrators are now asking, ‘What next?’ What happens when first-year students transition into their sophomore year? What are their needs and how can they be met? This resource on the sophomore-year experience will represent an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of the transitional issues between a student's first and second years of college. It will be aprimary aid in designing curricular and cocurricular programs for the second-year student population, focused on issues of retention, academic and career development, and personal transition and growth. Sponsored by The University ofSouth Carolina's National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, which appears to be the only organization monitoring the developing interest in this topic, the book will offer an update on second-year-student satisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures fromnational research findings; give an overview of emergent themes: purpose, integration, engagement, and commitment; expand the view of student developmentalissues; and discuss implications for best practices.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-19275-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 10/12/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés