National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Resources

• Conferences and Events
  
  
  • 13th National Conference on Students in Transition - November 5, 2006 - Powerpoint presentation from plenary address - Molly Schaller
    
    
  • Summary of  roundtable discussion at the 24th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience: Integrating First-Year and Sophomore Year Facilitated by Kathy Matthews and Ed Chan.
    
    
• Publications
  
  
  • Helping Sophomores Succeed: Understanding and Improving the Second-Year Experience, Mary Stuart Hunter, Barbara F. Tobolowsky, John N. Gardner, Scott E. Evenbeck, Jerry A. Pattengale, Molly Schaller, Laurie A. Schreiner (2009)
    
    
  • Monograph #47 - Shedding Light on Sophomores: An Exploration of the Second College Year, Barbara F. Tobolowsky & Bradley E. Cox, Editors (2007)
    
    
  • Monograph #31 - Visible Solutions for Invisible Students: Helping Sophomores Succeed, Laurie A. Schreiner and Jerry Pattengale, Editors (2000)
    

• Research
  
  
  • 2005 National Survey on Sophomore-Year Initiatives Methodology & Sophomore-Year Initiatives: An Institutional Overview and Institutional Examples
    
    
    • SOPH.ACPA.NASPA.pdf

Research and Publications

• Beliot College, Beloit, WI
  
  
  • List of resources having to do with their Sophomore Year Initiative including research findings and tools for instructors.
    http://www.beloit.edu/syi/
    
    
• Minnesota State University-Mankato
  
  
• Sophomore Connection Newsletter, http://www.mnsu.edu/students/sophomores/
  
  
  • The Sophomore Connection is a newsletter pertaining to the needs of sophomores. Check out information about upcoming events, the importance of advising, how to create lasting relationships, employment opportunities, and much more!
    
    
• NACADA Suggestions from the 2005 Survey on Sophomore-Year Initiatives
  
  
  • http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Clearinghouse/Links/sophomore.htm
    
    
• NSSE
  
  
  • PowerPoint: Using NSSE Results to help create a “sophomore experience”,
    http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:iYOQ5_PMYI4J:nsse.iub
    .edu/institute/documents/workshops/scsu_2006_presentations/Pennipede_
    Williams_ Sophomore%2520Experience.ppt+using+nsse+results+to+help+
    create+a+ sophomore+experience&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
    
    
• University of Minnesota,
  
  
  • “Higher Education’s Middle Child the unique challenges of Sophomore Year,” PowerPoint http://www.d.umn.edu/vcaa/retention/soph%20workshop%20March%205%202009.pdf
    
    
• UNC-Charlotte
  
  
  • Institution Specific Research, UNC-Charlotte (http://www.uncc.edu)
    
    
  • UNC-C has conducted a series of “sophomore surveys.” These surveys have brought to light issues of specific concern to sophomore students. Results can found at http://apir01nt.uncc.edu/irmainpage2/Surveys/srvindex.html
    
    
• Valdosta State University
  
  
  • Blueprint to the SYE program, http://www.valdosta.edu/sacs/qep/documents/QEPProposalforSYE_000.pdf
    
    
• West Virginia University
  
  
• Four vectors for navigating the sophomore year, Laurie A. Schreiner and Jerry Pattengale’s, http://sophomorejunioryear.experience.wvu.edu/research
  
  
• Winona State University
  
  
  • “Sophomore Retention Plan - Final Report”, http://www.winona.edu/msuaasf/SIA/Sophomore%20Retention%20Plan-Olcott-Kotovich.pdf 

Sophomores in publication

• About Campus
  
  
  • Wandering the Wondering “Traversing the Uneven Terrain of the Second Year of College,” Molly Schaller, http://depts.washington.edu/apac/roundtable/3-11-08_schaller_on_second_year_students.pdf
    
    
• College Student Journal
  
  
  • v. 42 no. 2 (June 2008 ptB) p. 637-46, “Supporting ‘Slumping’ Sophomores: Programmatic Peer Initiatives Designed to Enhance Retention in the Crucial Second Year of College," Caridad Sanchez-Leguelinel
    
    
• Journal of College Student Retention,
  
  
  • v. 4 no. 2 (2002/2003) p. 147-72, “Retention Initiative for Unscheduled Sophomores and Unscheduled Readmits,” Rashelle Karp and Rose Logue
    
    
• Inside Higher Ed
  
  
  •  “targeting the last year” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/31/secondyear
  • reslife.net “the sophomore year experience”, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/31/secondyear
    
    
• Miami of Ohio
  
  
  • http://media.www.miamistudent.net/media/storage/paper776/news/2009/04/07/
    Campus/SecondYear.Program.Initiative.Strengthens.Sophomore.Experience-3699720.shtml
    
    
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • Second Year programs aim to provide helping hand to college wise fools, http://www3.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=259630