Reporter Volume 25, No.28 Commencement Extra

260 students in Educational Opportunity Program honored in awards
ceremony
By MARY BETH SPINA
News Bureau Staff
Frank G. Pogue, State University of New York vice chancellor for
student affairs and special programs, was keynote speaker at an awards
ceremony held by the Educational Opportunity Program of the University
at Buffalo at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 6, in the Student Union on the
North Campus.
	UB's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) serves 900
educationally or economically disadvantaged students. They participate
in individual counseling, tutoring and special workshops, in addition
to their coursework. Most are in the first generation of their
families to attend a college or university, says Henry Durand,
director of the Center for Academic Development Services/EOP at UB.
	Honored with special awards from EOP and the State of New York
were 130 graduating seniors, 50 of whom have had a 3.0 or higher grade
point average throughout their college career.
	Honored for having a 3.0 or higher grade point average were
210 students in their freshman through junior years. Eighty-four of
the 260 have 3.5 or higher averages.