Jerry Pattengale PhD. speaks nationally and contributes regularly to the scholarship on Millennials and student success. His publications include Why I Teach (McGraw-Hill, 2008), Visible Solutions for Invisible Students (University of South Carolina Press, 2000), The Purpose-Guided Student (McGraw-Hill, in press), and the forthcoming book Helping Sophomores Succeed (Jossey Bass) co-authored with John Gardner and Stuart Hunter. He led the development of Indiana Wesleyan University’s first-year experience program centered on a new liberal arts course, “Becoming World Changers.” Retention rates have climbed from 68 percent to 82 percent with this program. In 2004, IWU received national recognition for these efforts through its selection as a Founding Institution in the Foundations of Excellence program of the National Policy Center (NC).