Mission Statement

The Pre-Collegiate and Access Services Department's mission is to provide a diverse population of first generation and low income students access into higher education by preparing them to meet high academic, personal, and social standards.

EOP ALUMNI NEWS

Dear EOP Alumni,

We write this to provide you with an update on EOP activities, and specifically to invite you to a reunion event on December 3, 2011.  We hope that you will be able to get together with other alums to have fun, see "old" friends and the campus.  If you have not been back in some trime, you will be amazed at the changes.

Please stay in touch,

C.J. Jones, Meg Leake, Michael Ansarra, and Awilda Reasco

EOP Alumni to meet at Basketball Game -

Saturday, December 3rd

You and your family are invited for a double header basketball game

CCSU vs. Sacred Heart

Women's Game 1:00pm -  Men's Game 3:30pm

Reception between games in Kaiser Hall

There will be refreshments and a limited number of yearbooks from the 25th anniversary and some items from the 40th reunion for those who could not attend.

Please register at www.ccsu.edu/EOPreunion.  Please list your name and the names of your guests who will be attending.  Complimentary game tickets will be held in your name at the Will Call table.  If you have any questions contact Cathie Jost, jostc@ccsu.edu or 860-832-1742.

50th Anniversary

We want to get started planning for the 50th Anniversary.  It may seem like a long way from now but it's closer than you think!  EOP just celebrated it's 43rd Summer Anniversary so the 50th is not far behind.  To get things started, you are invited to to a Central basketball game to renew acquaintances with present and former EOPers.  Hopefully, this will lead to a series of annual events leading up to the Big "50".  This and future events will help us to gather addresses, numbers and much needed information for future events.

EOP News and Scholarship Update

There are currently 187 active students enrolled in EOP.  Over twenty students are scheduled are on track to graduate between December 2011 and May 2012.  This year 24 EOP students have been offered financial assistance from the EOP Endowment funds.

For many of us, EOP was the summer that changed our lives.  Here is what one of EOP's most recent graduates has to say:

                             "Hard work and effort results in development,

                  awards, and success; but a support team is

                  needed to accomplish success".  CCSU's

                  faculty and EOP personnel have empowered

                  me to work to my fullest potential.  The EOP

                  Scholarship has assisted me with the ability to

                  get over my financial burdens and proceed with

                  earning a degree".

                                  Vincent Hill,

                                  EOP Class of 2009,

                                                        CCSU Graduation Class of 2012

Much of Vincent's success is due to the support of the alumni and friends who give back to the program.  Due to your support, the endowed scholarship fund is presently at $471,000 shy of half a million.  This fund provides much needed assistance for incoming and present EOP students and a few other students in financial need.

Linda and CJ Jones have challenged us to reach the half-million mark.  They have commited a grant of $6,000.00 to match gists made by the end of the fiscal year.  Your gift will have double the impact with this match!  When you make your annual gift to CCSU, you can designate your support to benefit EOP.  Make a gift on line at www.ccsu.edu/giving and indicate EOP.