The Association provides its
members with training, advocacy, mentoring, and a forum where individuals
from various programs with similar missions came come together
for mutual benefit.
AEEE
...
... helps provide
a unified voice in the cause of educational opportunity, and furthers
expansion of educational opportunity programs by providing opportunities
to advocate on behalf of TRIO and other underserved students.
... facilitates
communication and coopoeration among persons working in educational
opportunity programs in New Jersey and New York.
... furthers
public awareness of the needs of disadvantaged students enrolled
in or aspiring to post-secondary education.
... conducts
meetings, conferences and charitable activities dealing with issues
related to educational opportunity.
... provides
members with important grant and policy-related information from
the national advocacy organization, the Council for Opportunity
in Education (COE).
... represents
local issues and concerns at the national level by sending AEEE's
President, President-Elect, and Immediate Past President to the
Board of Directors of the national Council for Opportunity in Education
(COE).
