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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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Graduation Rate in 150% Time (Full-Time Students)

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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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