SUNY's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)
You can succeed in college. EOP can help.
For more than 50 years, the State University of New York’s Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) has helped promising students overcome financial and academic barriers to attend a SUNY college, earn a degree, and achieve their life goals.
Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP)
HEOP Mission
The Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) provides a broad range of services to New York State residents who, because of educational and economic circumstances, would otherwise be unable to attend a postsecondary educational institution. Each HEOP institution must ensure that HEOP students are provided with sufficient academic support services, tuition assistance, supplemental financial assistance, and full need packaging to enable them to successfully complete the institutional components required for graduation.
HEOP Objectives
Provide access to postsecondary education to eligible students
Identify, evaluate, and recruit eligible students and enable them to complete a higher education experience
Improve the retention and graduation rates of disadvantaged students
HEOP Services
Provides funds to assist in the screening and testing of prospective students
Provides structured academic support services including a pre-entry summer program, counseling, tutoring, and remedial/developmental coursework
Provides supplemental financial and tuition assistance toward their college expenses
HEOP addresses students needs by
Introducing students to college expectations via a pre-entry summer program.
Offering academic, career, financial, and career counseling.
Providing one-on-one and small-group tutoring.
Offering remedial, developmental, and support services .
Contact Information:
New York State Education Department
Office of Postsecondary Access, Support, and Success
Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program
89 Washington Avenue, EBA 960
Albany, NY 12234
(518) 474-3719
cdpu@nysed.gov
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*Please note, HEOP is not a scholarship given to individual students, but a grant awarded to selected independent colleges and universities. Students cannot apply to HEOP through NYSED's website. Students who are interested in HEOP must directly contact participating HEOP colleges & universities for the college and/or university's application information. Please see the HEOP directory for participating college & university's contact information. Students interested in EOP should visit SUNY's website for more information. Students interested in SEEK/CD should visit CUNY's website for more information.