Helping Sophomores Succeed: Understanding and Improving the Second Year Experience

Barbara F. Tobolowsky is an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies department at the University of Texas at Arlington?and?the former associate director of FYE.

John N. Gardner is an educator, university professor, administrator,?and executive director of the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, NC. He is also the founder and senior fellow of FYE at the University of South Carolina.

Scott E. Evenbeck is professor of psychology and dean of the University College at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI). He has been on the faculty of IUPUI for 34 years.

Jerry A. Pattengale is assistant vice president for scholarship and grants at Indiana Wesleyan University and serves on FYE's advisory board.

Molly A.?Schaller is an assistant professor and coordinator of the College Student Personnel Program and a Fellow in the Learning Teaching Center at the University of Dayton in Ohio.

Laurie A. Schreiner is a professor of higher education an program director of the Doctoral Program in Higher Education Leadership at Azusa Pacific University.

The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition (FYE)?supports and advances efforts to improve student learning and transitions into and through higher education by?providing opportunities for the exchange of practical, theory-based information and ideas.