To kick-off the IU South Bend Career Services Office's Speaker Series for the academic year, Pattengale will be speaking on issues such as retention in higher education, motivating college students towards success, the first-year experience and the “sophomore slump” when students do not do as well as their first year. Students, staff, faculty and administrators from all area colleges and universities as well as community members are invited to attend.

This event is free, but seating is limited and registration is required at http://ww.IUSBCareers.com. A light lunch will be provided following the presentation. For more information, please contact the IU South Bend Career Services Office at (574) 520-4425 or sbcareer@iusb.edu.

Pattengale speaks nationally and contributes regularly to the scholarship on millennials and student success. He has spoken at a wide variety of campuses from Texas A and M to Ivy Tech.

He has written for a number of publications from a popular newsprint series and the "Accidental Author" blog for Paxton Media to research-based texts and articles, such as "Visible Solutions for Invisible Students." (University of South Carolina Press, 2000), "The Motivated Student: The Dream Needs To Be Stronger than the Struggle" (McGraw-Hill, in press), "Helping Sophomores

Succeed" (co-authored with John Gardner, Stuart Hunter et al, in press, Jossey-Bass).