“This was a great program to help me take my ideas to the next step and figure out how to begin to implement them. I felt like the instructors had a personal interest in my progress, and connecting with personnel at other institutions was extremely helpful.” -Adrienne Fraaza, Fall Welcome Coordinator, Western Michigan University

Overview

Join us for an online course in which you will build a project proposal to create or expand the sophomore year experience (SYE) programs at your institution. In your proposal, we’ll help you apply student development theory to foster second-year engagement, increase interactions with faculty and staff, and help develop a sense of purposefulness in students’ degree paths.
You will receive feedback on your proposal from our expert instructors as well as your course colleagues, and you will leave with a finished proposal to use on campus. By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Set SYE goals that support your institutional mission
• Apply student development theory to sophomores
• Draw on current campus resources for SYE programming
• Develop curricular and co-curricular programming
• Propose an appropriate evaluation plan for measuring your SYE success

 
Watch this pre-webcast recording that features the webcast’s speakers discussing the theoretical background and history of sophomore initiatives. We recommend watching this podcast before the course in order to understand the speakers’ framework for thinking about new sophomore program components.