MI-MAEOPP
The purpose of the Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel is to bring together into a work and study community those persons who have an active interest in and/or who are professionally involved in broadening accessibility to and success in formal postsecondary education.
The Michigan chapter of the Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MI-MAEOPP) is one of eight chapters in the MAEOPP association. The Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP) represents 10 states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Purpose of the association:
- Promoting research, evaluation, programmatic and fiscal planning, and training-inclusive of, but not limited to, conducting workshops and seminars, and generally seeking to educate the public and public officials to the concerns of the association.
- Developing the capability to make timely and meaningful responses to issues and concerns affecting the educational resources and environments of non-traditional students.
- Encouraging the development and expansion of a communications network primarily for those persons professionally involved in educational opportunity programs and services.
- Engaging in the specific and general coordination of efforts with other organizations and persons having purposes supportive of or in harmony with association concerns.