Educational Opportunities Program- SUNY Albany

Join us in welcoming our EOP Class of 2029!

Welcome EOP Class of 2026

EOP Alumni Night!

Join us in welcoming our New EOP Director, Melissa Cedeño!

Ms. Cedeño graduated from UAlbany in 1994 with a BA in English and followed that up with an MA in English education from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1996. She completed the Simmons School of Management’s Strategic Leadership for Women Program and received the Redefined Principal Program Certificate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She succeeds Maritza Martinez, who has been with EOP for nearly four decades, the last 13 as director.

Welcome to the EOP Team!

The University at Albany’s Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) was honored as a finalist in Excelencia in Education’s 2020 Examples of Excelencia. The program was recognized for strategies that advance equity for Latinx students, and was one of 20 programs nationwide named as finalists.

See our article!

EOP Honored as ‘Example of Excelencia’ UAlbany's EOP program was honored as a finalist in Excelencia in Education’s 2020 Examples of Excelencia

Look at our EOP scholars!