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.