NEOA Mission and Information
Who We Are
The New England Educational Opportunity Association, or NEOA, is an
organization of professionals who are actively interested in insuring
equal educational opportunities in higher education. Founded in 1972,
NEOA has membership of more than 300 educators throughout the six New
England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and Vermont.
Almost 100 federally funded educational opportunity programs assisting
almost 50,000 middle school, high school and college students are supported
by NEOA members in both urban and rural communities throughout the region.
Combined, these programs receive federal funding of over $20 million
a year to promote access to and success in higher education.
Prior to April 1999, NEOA's name was NEAEOPP, which stood for the
New England Association Educational Opportunity Program Personnel.
What We Do
The mission of NEOA is to advocate for access to and success in postsecondary
education for low income individuals, first generation college students,
and students with disabilities and to develop the skills and knowledge
of educational opportunity professionals working with this population.
NEOA brochure
For more information about NEOA, take a look at our
four-page brochure. (Brochure is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, which
requires the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader, available from Adobe's
Web Site.).
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