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The Educational Opportunity Program
The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at the University of California, Davis began in 1968. The program offers an array of services to help students adapt both academically and socially to the University setting and achieve their educational and personal goals. The transition from high school or community college to a large research university can be overwhelming. EOP provides a caring and supportive environment for students to meet with peer and professional advisers and network with other students. Three staff advisers and a group of 15 peer advising counselors, in conjunction with other campus units, work together to offer students the following services and activities.
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Pre-enrollment assistance
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Academic Advising
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Orientation and welcome activities
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Personal and social support
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Information and skill development workshops
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Weekly newsletter
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Tutoring and supplemental instruction through the Student Academic Success Center
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Guardian Scholars, a support network for former foster youth
Our Mission
"The Educational Opportunity Program is committed to serving the UC Davis Community. We strive to maintain a climate of academic excellence and maximize retention by providing academic, and social support and peer counseling. We affirm our commitment by raising student awareness in current political and social issues. Through our programs we recognize, appreciate, and cherish the richness of our diversity.”
Please stop by the EOP office in South Hall to meet our friendly staff and peers. The office is open from 9-4 daily, and no appointment is necessary.
Peer Advising Counselors
Ariel Lopez
Year: 3rd
Major: Sociology and Chicano Studies
Hometown: Calipatria, CA
Activities: STEP 2010, Guardian Scholars
Program, California Youth Connection,
Aggies Empowering Foster Youth, La Raza Pre-Law,
Study Abroad Berlin, IM Softbal and Soccer
Favorite Quote: "All things are possible if you believe"
-Mark 9:23
Armando Figueroa
Year: 3rd
Major: Sociology and Chicano Studies
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Activities: SRRC ACE Intern, LRCD Planning Committee,
MEChA Activist, ASUCD Intern, ASUCD Senator
Favorite Quote: 'The true revolutionary is guided by a
great feeling of love."
Ani Movsisyan
Year: 3rd
Major: Psychobiology and Studio Art
Hometown: Armenia
Activities: Davis Christian Fellowship, Armenian Student
Association
Favorite Quote: “The time is always right to do what is right.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aysha Lauren Minot
Year: 5th
Major: Community and Regional Development
Hometown: Fontana, CA
Activities: Chancellor's Undergraduate advisory board,
Study abroad ecuador, IM softball, Davis Christian Fellowship
Favorite Quote: "Do not withhold good from those who
deserve it when it's in your power to help them."
Javier Mendivil
Year: 4th
Major: Civil Engineering
Hometown: Perris, CA
Activities: Running, soccer
Favorite Quote: "...the world is full of scientists,
engineers are what society needs!"
Leonna Spilman
Year: 3rd year
Major: English
Hometown: Ramona, CA
Activities: Davis Honors Challenge,
Peer Counselor at The House
Favorite Quote: "There are far better things
ahead than we leave behind" -C.S. Lewis
Maricela Gutierrez
Year: 4th
Major: Political Science and Communications
Hometown: Bakersfield, CA
Activities: STEP 2009, La Raza Pre-Law, Hermanas Unidas,
Pre-Law Student Association, PEACE
Favorite Quote: “I don’t think of all the misery, but all the
beauty that still remains.”
Melissa Vega-Valdez
Year: 4th
Major: Communication/Spanish
Minor: Education
Hometown: Patterson, CA
Activities: STEP 2009, EOP Street Team 2009-2010,MOB 2010-2011,
Spanish Tutor 2010-Current, Receptionist 2011-2012, UNIVISION Internship 2012
Favorite Quote: "Learn form yesterday, live today, and hope for a tomorrow"
Mireya Chavez-Martinez
Year: 3rd
Major: Psychology
Minor: Education
Hometown: Sun City/Norwalk, CA
Activities: Adolescents in CinemaTherapy (A.C.T), Cal Aggie Camp,
Relay for Life, Davis Community Meals
Favorite Quote: "The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter,
to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that
you have lived at all."-Leo Rosten
Renatto Guerra
Year: 4th
Major: Exercise Biology
Hometown: San Mateo, CA
Activities: Davis Christian Fellowship, Gospel Choir, Intramural Sports
Favorite Quote: Galatians 2:20
Arianne Riley
Year: 2nd
Major: Community and Regional Development
Hometown: Hayward, CA
Activities: BSU and LFA, reading, exercising, and sleeping
Favorite Quote: "It is never too late to be what you might
have been" George Eliot
Rocio Hurtado
Year: 4th
Major: Sociology
Minor: Writing
Hometown: Orange County, CA
Activities: I enjoy playing guitar, watching stand-up comedy,
cooking spicy and delicious food,I also love finding my friends
little-for no reason gifts.
Favorite Quote: "El derecho al respeto ajeno es la paz" I know its in
Spanish, but it essentially means that granting others the right to your
respect is peace.
Ronnie Chavez
Year: 5th
Major: English
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Activities: Watching South Park
Favorite Quote: "The Sad truth is the truth is sad" — Lemony Snicket
Coordinators
Steven Nguyen
Year: 4th
Major: Human Development
Minor: Education
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Activities: STEP 2009, EOP Street Team, IM Sports,
Vietnamese Student Association (VSA), Asian American Association (AAA)
Favorite Quote: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and
today is a gift; That’s why they call it the present.”
Jamila Cambridge
Year: 5th year
Major: Community and Regional Development
Hometown: Seaside, CA
Activities: EOP Street Team, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc, UC Davis
Washington D.C. Program, UC Davis School of Law, Law Review,
King Hall Outreach Program, Chancellor's Undergraduate Advisory Board
Favorite Quote: "I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this
world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. "
-Fritz Perls, "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim"


















