The Sophomore Year : the year of transition

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The Sophomore Year the year of transition

• By Trina Kudlacek, Adviser, SAAS
• Ron Cambra, Asst Vice Chancellor, Undergraduate
  Education
• Consulted Gregg Geary, Director, Student Success
  Center
• Leilani Takeuchi, Director First Year Programs

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During your Freshman Year You Were

• Adjusting to college life
• A roommate
• Trying to understand academic expectations
• Food, music, and freedom
• Figuring out the campus
• Being away from home
• Athletic expectations
• Seeking balance in life
• Learning to take responsibility for actions
• Financial responsibility limited
• Make mistakes, lots of mistakes
• Survival skills

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The Sophomore YearQuestions, questions

• What does it mean to be a sophomore?
• What are the expectations for the sophomore?
• What are our concerns?
• What are YOUR responsibilities?

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Academic Engagement

• Activity
• Thought
• Action
• Planning
• Re-thinking

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You are a sophomore if you

• 1. Ask questions
• 2. Get involved
• 3. Achieve academically
• 4. Plan ahead
• 5. Explore
• 6. Build relationships
• 7. Goals and objectives become real

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Sophomore Year Thoughts

• 1. Challenging time
• 2. Explore self and future
• 3. Unsure is ok if you have a plan
• 4. Develop skills, do what comes hardest
• 5. You are valued, so value others too
• 6. Work to understand your heart and your mind
• 7. Volunteer and volunteer and volunteer some
  more
• 8. Think international
• 9. Develop a career path
• 10. Alumni
• 11. State your case, your resume
• 12. Motivations

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• KNOW YOUR SCHOOL
• What is the University of Hawaii at Manoa?
• Historical and cultural facts
• Buildings and people
• The future plans for the campus.
• Greatest challenges for UHM..
• Alumni greatness
• The circlehow wide is my circle?

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The difference between those who graduate with a
bachelors degree and those who dont is

• ACADEMIC
• ENGAGEMENT

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Median Annual Earnings
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Very few athletes go on to play professionally

• 1 in 100 (1) of womens basketball players
• 1 in 50 (1.8) of football players

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Sophomore Year Expectations
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Why Students Leave

• 1. Too much fun at expense of classes
• 2. Sense of not belonging, home sick
• 3. Academically unprepared
• 4. Time management and study skills
• 5. Personal family issues
• 6. Access to academic advising
• 7. Financial aid constraints
• 8. Majors
• 9. Housing and parking
• 10. Access to classes

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Academic Major

• Choose a major talk with faculty, advisors,
  visit career center
• NCAA rules 40 degree completion (usually 50
  DEGREE APPLICABLE credits)
• Develop a graduation plan (with STAR and Advisors

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STAR

• See exactly what you need for graduation
• See how many core classes you need
• Do a what if and try out different majors
• Check out transfer credit

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Get Connected with the Campus

• If you have not argued over a controversial issue
  with another student
• If you have not listened to a speaker at Campus
  Center that you disagreed with.
• If you have not had a talk with a faculty member
  outside class
• If you do not have a book for fun
• If you do not know the name of the Chancellor..
• If you take a minute to name your adviser
• If you have never visited Chinatown on Saturday
  morning..
• If you do not know where all the eating places
  are on campus..
• If you have not gotten lost in the stacks in
  Hamilton Library
• If you have not seen a lecture, play, movie or
  concert on campus
• If you do not know about the services available
  on campus
• THEN YOURE NOT CONNECTED WITH THE CAMPUS

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Participation in Sports Can

• Give you great opportunities
• Provide you with lifelong friendships and
  memories
• Provide you with a scholarship
• Lead to a professional career as an athlete,
  coach, or administrator

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LIFE MOMENTSSports cannot provide you with a
good life.Life is who you are when the arena or
stadium lights go off the last time.You create
your life and then you must live it.
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• ROAD LESS TRAVELEDTwo roads diverged in a
  yellow woodAnd sorry I could not travel bothAnd
  be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one
  as far as I couldTo where it bent in the
  undergrowthThen took the other as just as
  fairAnd having perhaps the better claimBecause
  it was grassy and wanted wearThough as for that,
  the passing thereHad worn them really about the
  sameAnd both that morning equally layIn leaves
  no step had trodden blackOh, I kept the first
  for another day!Yet, knowing how way leads onto
  wayI doubted if I should ever come backI shall
  be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and
  ages henceTwo roads diverged in a woodAnd I
  took the one less traveled byAnd that has made
  all the differenceRobert Frost

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Which road will you take?
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THE ACTION STEP

• 1. Ask you to make a commitment to a fellow
  sophomore.
• 2. Form a support sophomore clan.
• 3. Take specific action steps.
• 4. Share them with others.
• 5. Set new goals.
• 6. Now you are a Sophomore!!!!!!!!