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  • Posted by
    on Tue, Mar 16 2010 12:29 PM

    Anyone know of outdoor programming aimed specifically at supporting/inspiring/bonding sophomore college students?

    Thanks


    Ed
  • Posted by
    on Tue, Mar 16 2010 3:38 PM
    YES! West Virginia University has the SOAR program (Sophomore Outdoor Adventure Reorientation). It focuses on academic leadership of the self and others and long term goals beyond school and well as avoiding the Sophomore slump (when Universities don't offer you catchy freshmen retention programs anymore, and you're not the prized senior class yet either)...

    Check them out here...

    http://www.adventurewv.wvu.edu/

    p.s. I am the guy two persons right of the boulder on the left. Hat on, chin on fist, taken from my first year with the program, long before my days with North Carolina Outward Bound!


    -Kevin Shon

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  • Posted by
    on Tue, Mar 16 2010 3:50 PM
    Thank you! Precisely what I was looking for. Do you know of others out there on the same scale as SOAR?
    Ed


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    Davidson College Union
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    On 3/16/10 3:42 PM, "Kevin Shon" wrote:

    YES! West Virginia University has the SOAR program (Sophomore Outdoor Adventure Reorientation). It focuses on academic leadership of the self and others and long term goals beyond school and well as avoiding the Sophomore slump (when Universities don't offer you catchy freshmen retention programs anymore, and you're not the prized senior class yet either)...

    Check them out here...

    http://www.adventurewv.wvu.edu/

    p.s. I am the guy two persons right of the boulder on the left. Hat on, chin on fist, taken from my first year with the program, long before my days with North Carolina Outward Bound!


    -Kevin Shon

    On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ed Daugherty wrote:

    Anyone know of outdoor programming aimed specifically at supporting/inspiring/bonding sophomore college students?


    Thanks



    Ed



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  • Posted by
    on Tue, Mar 16 2010 5:07 PM
    Ed, Brown University's BOLT program has always been for sophomores.

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  • Posted by
    on Thu, Mar 18 2010 9:32 AM
    Hey Ed,

    Brown University also focuses on Sophomores in their BOLT program.

    Recently folks in the student development field have realized that all
    the focus on first-year students has resulted in some neglect or at
    least a drop-off in support for sophomores. The National Resource
    Center for The First Year Experience and Students in Transition has
    focussed on sophomore transition issues and would be a great source of
    information (in a non-wilderness context).

    Here is a link: http://sc.edu/fye/resources/soph/index.html

    Let me know if I can be of any more help.

    Brent



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    Assistant Prof. of Outdoor Education
    Dept. of Kinesiology
    University of New Hampshire
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  • Posted by
    on Thu, Mar 18 2010 10:08 AM
    Thanks Brent. Saw the BOLT site - very nice premise. Davidson is concerned about exactly the phenomenon you mention. Just have to figure out how to implement something effective given the resources available now.

    Hope all is going well up there.

    Ed


    Ed Daugherty
    Director, Davidson Outdoors
    Davidson College Union
    (704)894-2173
    (704)650-7992 cell
    eddaugherty@davidson.edu

    Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.


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    On 3/18/10 9:37 AM, "Brent Bell" wrote:

    Hey Ed,

    Brown University also focuses on Sophomores in their BOLT program.

    Recently folks in the student development field have realized that all
    the focus on first-year students has resulted in some neglect or at
    least a drop-off in support for sophomores. The National Resource
    Center for The First Year Experience and Students in Transition has
    focussed on sophomore transition issues and would be a great source of
    information (in a non-wilderness context).

    Here is a link: http://sc.edu/fye/resources/soph/index.html

    Let me know if I can be of any more help.

    Brent



    Brent Bell
    Assistant Prof. of Outdoor Education
    Dept. of Kinesiology
    University of New Hampshire
    (603)862-3047
    bbell@unh.edu




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