1. How Hope Can Change Your Campus Shane J. Lopez Futuristic*Maximizer*Arranger*Ideation*Strategic Senior Scientist in Residence, Gallup Research Director, Clifton Strengths School

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3. Hope 3 Hope is goal-directed thinking (goals thinking) in which people perceive that they can produce routes to desired goals (pathways thinking) and the requisite motivation to use those routes (agency thinking). Hope – The ideas and energy we have for the future. High hope people believe that the future will be better than the present and that they have the power to make it so. Copyright © 2009 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.

4. Hope Research Highlights 4 Copyright © 2009 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. Hope is uniquely human. Hope costs nothing. Hope is malleable and contagious. Hope drives attendance, credits earned, and GPA. Hope drives college credits earned, GPA, and retention. Hope drives work performance. Hope is closely linked to well-being. Hopeful people (60 and older) have longer lives.

5. What We Know Showing Up Effort Productivity Health Well-being Longevity 5

6. Hope and School Status Low Hope High Hope Dismissed Because of 18 > 5 Poor Grades* Withdrew in Good1721 Standing Still 85 Enrolled Graduated* 29 < 39 Snyder et al. (2002) 6

7. Hope and School Hope ASEEngagement Year 1 Cumulative GPA.26**.18*.09 Year 2 Cumulative GPA.20*.19*.19* Year 3 Cumulative GPA.21*.12.13 Year 4 Cumulative GPA.24**.09.10 Lopez & Gallagher (2011) 7

8. Hope and School 8 Academic performance outcomes, including GPA, have a moderate, positive relationship with hope (mean ρ=.23), representing a 12% gain in academic performance. Lopez, Reichard, Marques, & Dollwet (2011) Copyright © 2009 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.

9. The Big Question 9 Why do hopeful students consistently perform well in school and less hopeful students do not? Copyright © 2009 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.

10. Hope for the Future Destin & Oyserman (2010)

11. Hope for the Future

12. Hope is a Choice 12 The Future Is Not So Distant The Present Does Not Limit Us The Past is Not a Preview Copyright © 2009 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.

13. Hope is a More Than a Feeling 13 Contrasting the Then and Now Planning for Ifs Triggering Action Copyright © 2009 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.

14. Hope is Contagious 14 Sharing the Future Teaching Hope to the Next Generation Leading with Hope Making Ripples Copyright © 2009 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.

15. Making Ripples 15 Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy Copyright © 2009 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.