{"id":2757,"date":"2024-10-02T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:05:21","slug":"changing-the-narrative-of-the-sophomore-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/2024\/10\/02\/changing-the-narrative-of-the-sophomore-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the narrative of the sophomore slump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Going to college is an overwhelming and all-consuming experience. To help students cope with the new realities of college life, universities typically provide huge amounts of resources and support to freshmen during their first year. Once students hit their sophomore year, the assumption is that students are returning to something they\u2019re already familiar with; they know what resources their school has to offer, how to sign up for classes, where to buy the best lunch on campus, and so on. Sophomores are expected to independently way find and the amount of support and provided resources fizzles out. This phenomena is referred to as the sophomore slump as research has shown that sophomores are in fact quite vulnerable compared to other college classes because<\/em> of this drop-off in support. Shania Siron, who is in her third (and final!) year and advised by Dr. Tenisha Tevis at OSU, is our guest on the show this week and the focus of her Doctorate of Education dissertation research is the sophomore slump. Shania\u2019s research aims at better understanding how college sophomores develop their abilities to self-author through engaging with career services, which Shania is pretty well-placed to do given that she doesn\u2019t just wear a graduate student hat but she in fact also works full-time as the Assistant Director of Career and Fellowship Advising at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Schematic showing how Self-Authorship Theory intersects with the Center for Life Beyond Reed’s Purpose=Driven Career Advising Model<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tune in to our interview with Shania this Sunday (October 6th<\/sup>) at 7 pm PST on KBVR 88.7 FM<\/a> to learn about Reed College\u2019s unique advising model, what it means to self-author, and Shania\u2019s journey from being an undergraduate Duck at University of Oregon to being a graduate Beaver at Oregon State University!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you miss the live show, you can check out the interview wherever you get your podcasts, including on our KBVR page<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a> or anywhere else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going to college is an overwhelming and all-consuming experience. To help students cope with the new realities of college life, universities typically provide huge amounts of resources and support to freshmen during their first year. Once students hit their sophomore year, the assumption is that students are returning to something they\u2019re already familiar with; they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7405],"tags":[168,155,523,1305716,1305714,1305715],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-education","tag-education","tag-oregon-state-university","tag-research","tag-self-authorship","tag-shania-siron","tag-sophomore-slump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}