Part I: Foundations -- Understanding the impact of the second year of college -- Keys to student success -- Factors that contribute to sophomore success and satisfaction -- College sophomores -- part II: Approaches for engaging second-year students -- Academic advising -- Promoting career success in the second year of college -- Curricular approaches for the intellectual development of second-year students -- The critical role of faculty and faculty development in sophomore success -- Service-learning in the sophomore year -- The potential of study abroad in the sophomore year -- Undergraduate research -- Residential learning in the sophomore year -- Spirituality, meaning making, and the sophomore-year experience -- part III: Campus practice and implications -- Designing and implementing new initiatives for sophomores -- Assessment -- Recommendations to improve sophomore student success -- Appendix A: Summary of hierarchical regression analyses in private institutions: 2007 survey of sophomores -- Appendix B: The sophomore student success initiative: questions for discussion between resident advisor and sophomore students -- Appendix C: Principles of good assessment
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