Second-Year Experience Board
Members
Michael LaPorta
Christina Connor
Kathy Stathis
Marita Esposito
Joe Cataliotti
Michael Alcee
Brittany Goldstein
Jonathan Belle
Nicole Pacheco
Todd Lizzo
Brandon Martin
Michelle Johnson
Jordana Suriani
Matthew McMahon
Charge
The Second-Year Experience (SYE) Board, which reports to the Student Engagement Steering
Committee through the vice provost, is charged with:
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Reviewing the literature on best practices for the second-year experience and
communicating those best practices to the campus community;
Creating a coherent and cohesive second-year experience based on best practices;
Reviewing the second-year student-engagement goals and outcomes to ensure that they
correspond to best practices;
Ensuring that all second-year Key Points of Engagement (KPEs) meet the student
engagement goals and outcomes;
Recommending the addition of new KPEs and the retirement of existing KPEs as
appropriate and needed;
Communicating and marketing the second-year experience program to second-year
students in collaboration with other groups on campus;
Working through the board membership to ensure that units responsible for second-year
KPEs implement them in the spirit of the second-year goals and outcomes and assess
them appropriately;
Evaluating the suitability and feasibility of measures identified by units for KPE
assessment and coordinating those measures to reduce redundancy and to promote
collaboration;
Reviewing and evaluating KPE assessment data and making recommendations to
responsible units about ways to improve the sophomore experience;
Representing the board members’ respective units on the board; and
Communicating the board’s decisions and recommendations to the Student Engagement
Steering Committee and to the appropriate units.