hobsons university 2016 welcome address
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Thank You
Hobsons Staff, 86
Presenters, 51
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Guests, 21
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Clients, 592
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50-99
25-49
10-24
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Dr. Freeman Hrabowski
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Welcome Reception
5:30-7:30pm, Bay View Court Foyer
Our vision
We envision a future where education advances every
student to meet his or her full potential — a future where
equal access to high-quality educational opportunities
and support enables students to improve themselves,
their communities, and
our world.
Education Advances
Our mission
Our mission is to empower students to connect
learning to life by making informed choices across
a lifetime of education decisions – from grade
school through grad school.
Connecting Learning to Life
College and Career Readiness Admissions and Enrollment Student Success and Advising
Hobsons helps students identify their strengths, explore careers, create academic plans, match to best-fit educational opportunities,
and reach their education and life goals. Through our solutions, we enable thousands of educational institutions to improve college
and career planning, admissions and enrollment management, student success and advising for millions of students around the
globe.
What we do
Self-DiscoveryCareer
Exploration
Academic
Planning
College
Preparation
College and career readiness for all
Naviance for Elementary School
Planning and
PossibilitiesStudents learn that there are many
possibilities for their future and
learn how they can set goals to
achieve them.
Self KnowledgeExplore their strengths, interests,
values, mindsets, and beliefs and
learn how this ties to achieving
their dreams.
Career ExplorationStudents explore career pathways
via their interests, values, and
beliefs.
School and CoursesStudents learn how school and
their courses connects to them
following pathways to their
dreams.
College ExplorationStudents explore higher education
options and the impacts this has
on them successfully navigating
desired possibilities.
AffordabilityStudents learn about money and
how they can afford education that
supports them on the way to
achieving their dreams.
Our Global Footprint
12,000+
institutions
13 million
students
100
countries
Mission
Reality
Opportunity
Progress Report
Welcome to Hobsons University!
Mission
Our mission
Our mission is to empower students to
connect learning to life by making informed
choices across a lifetime of education
decisions. Hobsons products and services
maximize student success and institutional
effectiveness.
Connecting Learning to Life
Reality
Number of high school graduates, 1998 to 2024
Source: U.S. Department of Education
Cumulative % change in high school graduates relative to
2008-2009, by race/ethnicity
Source: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Knocking at the College Door, 2012
Full-time, first-time Bachelor’s
degree-seeking students
graduating
in 6 years
Full-time, first-time
certificate or Associate’s
degree-seeking students
graduating in 3 years
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, The Condition of Education 2015
31% 59%
Completion rates by sector and race/ethnicityServing the Equity Imperative: Intentional Action Toward Greater Student Success
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Figure 2.
Notes: AI: American Indian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Native Alaskan A: Asian B: Black or African American H: Hispanic or Latino W: White
At all institution types, black, Hispanic and American Indian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and Native Alaskan students have lower graduation rates and these differences are especially pronounced at the types of institutions which minority students are more likely to attend—community colleges and non-research four-year institutions. Black students are far more likely to enroll in a community college and, of those who entered full time seeking a degree, only seven percent graduated with an associate degree within three years. Another 13 to 16 percent go on to transfer to a four-year institution before receiving their degree but only a portion of those students go on to complete a degree. Figure 3.
Notes: Bars to not add up to 100% because the percent for each sector uses an individual median of state means.
AI/PI/NA: American Indian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Native Alaskan.
This disproportionate enrollment of minority students in less selective institutions, and lack of success at those institutions also contributes to disproportionate attainment. The data show a much smaller proportion of black, Hispanic, and American Indian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and Native Alaskan students receive bachelor’s degrees in comparison with Asian and white students. While the
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72%
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31%
57%
12%
41%
63%
15%
50%
72%
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Associates Bachelors Bachelors Research
Graduation Rate in 150% Time (Full-Time Students)
12%
5%
7%
6%
4%
39%
23%
36%
39%
32%
55%
73%
59%
57%
63%
AI/PI/NA
Asian
Black
Hispanic
White
Distribution of Student Completions Across Degree Type by Race Certificate Associates Bachelors
AI A B H W AI A B H W AI A B H W
Source: Complete College America, Serving the Equity Imperative, 2016
Upper income students in the U.S. are 8.5x more likely than their
lower income peers to earn a Bachelor’s degree by age 24
Source: The Pell Institute, Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States, 2015
9%77%
Opportunity
Bridge the gap by connecting learning to life
Aspirations Gap: Many students want to go to college but don’t actually apply and enroll.
Readiness Gap: Completing high school makes students eligible for college, but many fall short of being truly
college-ready.
Match Gap: Students often struggle to find best-fit postsecondary options that meet their academic, social, and
financial needs.
Success Gap: Even well-prepared students face obstacles in finishing what they start.
Access and completion go hand-in-hand
Access Completion
Success means different
things to different students so
understanding intent is critical
All students should
be aware of their
postsecondary options
Connecting students to opportunity
College and
Career ExplorationSelf-Discovery
Student support
Admissions Advising
Student Matching
Academic Planning
Progress report
Self-DiscoveryCareer
Exploration
Academic
Planning
College
Preparation
College and Career Readiness
Actionable
Student
Views
Seamless
Application
Management
Multi-Channel
Communications
Real-Time
Insights
Admissions and Enrollment Management
Connect
ApplyYourself
Analytics
Student Success and Advising
Early alert Holistic advising Degree planning
Supporting a Community of Practice
Hobsons is proud to work closely with key associations to support research and sharing of best practices
across the K-12 and higher education communities, particularly
focused on college access and completion
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