Release Date:  March 13, 2008
Contact:  Kathy Popielski, popielskik@trocaire.edu
716-821-1210, Ext. 1006


BUFFALO, N.Y. -  Two Trocaire College students took a break from their studies on March 11 to take a road trip to Albany to lobby for the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP). 

HEOP students Alisha Alford and Leah Sojka, a Cheektowaga resident, joined Western New York HEOP students from other local colleges to lobby our representatives on behalf of the program.  The students, along with Assistant HEOP Director G. Roman Shchurowsky, met with Senator William Stachowski, Assemblyperson Crystal Peoples and Assemblyman Mark Schroeder – all three indicated support for Trocaire’s program.  The students discussed the need for continued financial and educational support of the HEOP program and shared some of their ideas and concerns.

Arthur O. Eve HEOP is a program for New York State residents that provides educational opportunity and academic support to students with strong academic potential and personal initiative who would otherwise be excluded from higher education due to circumstances of academic and economic disadvantage.