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PROGRAM
HIGHER EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (HEOP)
PROGRAM INFORMATION
POPULATION SERVED: Adults
SERVICES PROVIDED: Counseling, stipend, literacy and English as a Second Language instruction, life skills instruction, tuition assistance and tutoring
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY: State Education Department
ELIGIBLE SERVICE PROVIDERS: Private colleges and universities
SOURCE OF FUNDING: State
AUTHORIZATION: State Statute: Section 6451, Education Law
DESCRIPTION: Provides services and activities to economically and educationally disadvantaged post-secondary students.
PROGRAM DATA
FISCAL YEAR: 1996
(1996-97)
1997
(1997-98)
1998
(1998-99)
1999
(1999-00)
2000
(2000-01)
APPROPRIATIONS($): 16,400,000 16,400,000 16,400,000 20,100,000 22,000,000
NUMBER ENROLLED: 5,980 6,164 5,175 5,175 5,237
OUTCOME*: 54.6% 53.4% 54.4% 56.8%
CONTACT
NAME/AGENCY: DOUGLAS MERCADO, State Education Department
PHONE NUMBER: 518-474-5313

* Percentage of students enrolled or graduated at the end of the school year who had entered four-year participating independent institutions five years earlier.