Academic services and opportunities

1. Academic planning counselors (APCs)

Every EOP student is assigned an academic planning counselor (APC) who will work with them throughout their college-career. APCs serve as the faculty advisors for all EOP freshmen and serve as links to engage students in all of the resources and opportunities the college has to offer. If you would like to make an appointment with one of our APCs, please click on their name below or send them an email:

• Val Ledford
• Grace Maxon-Clarke - To make an appointment please email grace.maxon@oswego.edu.
• Drew Spriggs 
• Scott Cunningham

2. GST 100: Introductionto College-Level Learning

All EOP freshmen take this course as part of their first-semester course load and the EOP staff members serve as the instructors for the course. The course is designed to continue the successful transition to college and engage critical thinking as a core component of college-level learning.

3. Academic community groups
Each semester we have a number community groups operating including, but not limited to, our Meditation Group, Mastermind Group, Advanced Mastermind Group, Men's Group and Women's Group. Th

ese groups are designed to provide support and community for all students, to continue the goal-setting process, and to enhance levels of performance in all areas

4. Workshops (in-person and virtual)
A series of workshops are provided for our EOP students each semester and are developed according to ongoing and student-identified needs. While workshop development is ongoing, registration assistance and strategies, FAFSA assistance, and study abroad workshops are offered each semester. The EOP Student Advisory Committee participates in developing our workshop calendar and creating a student-run workshop series.

5. Campus-wide tutoring
The Office of Learning Services (OLS) provides tutoring services for all students in a variety of courses. We encourage everyone to engage in the tutoring process as a form of academic enhancement. Additionally, we have evidence to show that those students who use tutoring services have increased their overall grades significantly. 

6. Additional EOP Tutoring
EOP provides additional tutoringabove and beyond those tutoring services offered by the College through OLS. To learn more about our additional tutoring options, please talk with one of the EOP staffmembers.

7. Student Advisory Committee 
The EOP Student Advisory Committee serves as the body that makes recommendations

to the program regarding additional services and suggestions for updates and improvements, and provides general feedback regarding program operations.  Students looking to participate on the committee can talk with any staff member or current advisory committee member for more information.

8. Peer leaders
Each Fall semester, the EOP program accepts applications for any student interested in applying to become a peer leader during our summer program. To be selected as a peer leader, students have to apply and be selected by the EOP staff. 

9. MAT 158 and MAX 100

We have our own sections of MAT 158 (statistics) and MAX 100 (basic mathematics) and they are specifically for EOP students. With these sections of math classes, they haveembeddedtutors, and exsteded class times.

10. Chi Alpha Epsilon (XAE) National Honor Society - Gamma Tau Chapter