Davis Pathway Presentation 2013
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This document discusses various statistics related to education and careers, including the percentage of high school graduates not eligible for military service or employable, college dropout rates, levels of college degree required for jobs, and average student loan debt. It also defines key terms like college, career, ready, and career pathways, describing pathways as sequences of educational opportunities that prepare students for career fields or further education.
Davis Pathway Presentation 2013
- 1. Making Sense of the Numbers . . .
- 2. Not eligible for military service
- 3. Are they employable? Are they headed to public assistance? Will they ever move away from home?!
- 4. *26% Ready for college? High School teachers and college professors disagree.
- 5. Two-year college drop-out rate and four-year college drop out rate
- 6. College is a means to an end . . . NOT the end!
- 7. College graduates 25 or under who are under/unemployed
- 8. Four-year grads whose job requires less than a four-year degree, and less than a high school diploma
- 9. $26,200 Average loan debt of a 2012 college grad.
- 11. Why Career Pathways? College & Career Ready
- 12. Why Career Pathways? What is college? community college, university, technical or vocational program, apprenticeship, or significant on-the-job training
- 13. Why Career Pathways? What is a career? an occupation you have for a significant portion of your life and with opportunities for progress.
- 14. Why Career Pathways? What is ready? knowledge and skills needed to qualify for and succeed in the postsecondary job training and/or education necessary for their chosen career.
- 15. Why Career Pathways? What is a Pathway? Pathways are a sequence of educational opportunities including classes, student organizations and work experience that prepare students to enter a career field or further prepare for a career through postsecondary education.
- 16. Why Career Pathways? What Pathway will my child be in?
Editor's Notes
- #3: 70% of high school aged youth are not eligible for military service (no diploma. Fail ASVAB, drugs, in jail)
- #5: 89% of high school teachers say college freshmen are very well or well prepared. Only 26% of college professors say that!
- #6: 45% of2-year college students drop out after the first year. 35% of 4-year college students drop out after the first year.
- #8: 54% of college graduates 25 or under are either unemployed or under-employed
- #9: 48% of employed 4-year graduates are in a position that requires less than a 4-year degree. 37% are in a position that requires less than a high school diploma.
- #10: Average loan debt of a college grad in 2012