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Extended Opportunity Programs & Services (EOPS) is a state funded program designed to assist low-income and educationally disadvantaged students gain access to and successfully complete a program of higher education. EOPS students may also be defined as “at risk” since students who are academically underprepared and have financial need often do not succeed in college without the services of programs such as EOPS. At MPC, EOPS serves 500-700 students a year: a highly diverse population of men and women of all ages, various ethnicities/races/cultures, and in the full range of “life stages” from recent high school graduates to re-entry single parents to retired persons seeking a new career.
Cooperative Agencies Resources for Education (CARE) is a supplementary grant program within EOPS to provide additional services/benefits to welfare-dependent single parents with children under the age of 14.
| EOPS/CARE Staff: | |
| Larry Walker | Associate Dean for Student Services |
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EOPS/CARE Unit Office Manager |
| Kelly Fletes | EOPS/CARE Clerical Assistant |
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EOPS Coordinator & EOPS Counselor |
| Christine Vincent | CARE Coordinator & EOPS Counselor |
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EOPS Counselor |
| Grace Anongchanya | EOPS/TRIO Counselor |
| Contact EOPS/CARE: | |
| Phone | 831-646-4247 |
| Fax | 831-646-3056 |
| eops@mpc.edu | |
| Open Hours | Monday-Thursday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Friday 9:00 am - 2:00 pm |
| Location | Extended Opportunity Programs and Services Humanities Building (HU), Room 209 Monterey Peninsula College 980 Fremont Street Monterey, CA 93940 |
The Nickel and the Nail
In November 1971, the Executive Committee of the California Community College EOPS Association (CCCEOPSA) adopted the Nickel and the Nail as the symbol of aid offered to many California Community College students through EOPS.
This symbol, the EOPS logo, represents a successful effort at helping to provide the motivation and means for students to reach their educational goals. Here is the story:
A young man in the deep South was walking down a dusty road to visit a lady friend, all to aware that the nickel in his pocket was all he had in the world. That emptiness tore away at his self esteem.
But, as he walked, he noticed two gnarled horseshoe nails that were twisted together and lying by the road. He picked them up and put them in his pocket, and as the metal jingled against his meager fortune, the young man walked a little straighter , with a little more pride and dignity.
It is important to have “something to jingle.” EOPS works to enhance self esteem, foster pride and dignity, and motivate people to more effectively define and pursue career goals.
The nails twisted into a puzzle, suggesting the problem has yet to be unraveled for helping people who, by circumstances of the society in which we live, have been limited in meeting their own educational challenges.