Cal State Educational Opportunities Program (EOP) opens doors for Latino students

“Armando Vazquez-Ramos was an average student at Lincoln High School in East L.A. He maintained a 2.97 grade point average and never dreamed about attending college.

Then Joseph L. White stepped into the picture.

In the fall of 1967, White, an associate professor of psychology at Cal State Long Beach, was recruiting first-generation minority students for the university and its new Educational Opportunities Program, which helped promising, low-income students enter college through financial aid support and lower test score requirements.”

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