Provide access, academic support, and/or financial assistance to underserved students who show promise for college success. We serve students at all stages of life and learning, full or part time. SUNY Empire offers three opportunity programs: SUNY Educational Opportunity Program (EOP): A program for full-time, first-time freshmen and full-time opportunity program transfer students; Empire State Opportunity Program (ESOP): A program for full-time and part-time transfer students; Empire Promise Program (EPP): A program for first-time freshmen, continuing students, and transfer students and SUNY Empire also supports SUNY’s Foster Youth College Success Initiative (FYCSI), a state-funded program that connects youth in foster care, eligible orphans, or wards of the court who are accepted into SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) with academic support services and financial assistance to help enroll in, pay for, and successfully complete college. Call for detailed information regarding each program.