This section provides prospective and current students, as well as interested parties, information on the Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program and the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program. These programs are part of the commitment we have to supporting our students on the path toward successful graduation from Cornell University. Our students can develop their abilities to the fullest extent possible when they participate in these programs.

Please contact us if you have questions at stateprograms@cornell.edu or (607) 255-6384.

About EOP/HEOP
In 1967, New York State Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve pushed forward the principles of access to, and opportunities in, higher education for underrepresented students by developing an appropriations bill, which he modeled after a program at the City University of New York called Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK). This bill related to schools, and ultimately became the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), the first students of which were admitted in 1968.

The following year, the New York State Legislature expanded this program to provide students access to private and independent colleges and universities and the Higher Education Opportunity Program was born.

Currently, EOP has a presence on forty-five campuses across New York State with HEOP operating on fifty-seven campuses.

EOP/HEOP at Cornell University
The Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) and the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) facilitates students whose financial and academic environments have not allowed their potential to come to fruition. EOP/HEOP gives students who have the ability for academic success, but not the requirements for regular admission, the chance to attend Cornell University. The programs allow students eight to ten semesters to successfully complete a degree.

EOP serves students enrolled in one of the contract colleges at Cornell:

• College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
• College of Human Ecology
• School of Industrial and Labor Relations

HEOP serves students enrolled in one of the endowed colleges at Cornell:

• College of Architecture, Art and Planning
• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Engineering
• School of Hotel Administration

The Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) is funded in part by a grant from the State University of New York.
The Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) is funded in part by a grant from the New York State Department of Education