Workshops & Roundtables
The California Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services Association invites EOPS professionals, administrators, faculty, classified professionals, counselors, students, community partners, and equity-minded leaders to submit proposals for the 57th Annual CCCEOPSA Conference. This year’s conference theme, EOPS Strong: Power in Unity, calls us to honor the enduring legacy of EOPS while advancing collective action for the students, families, and communities we serve.
At the core of each conference strand is our shared commitment to Strengthening the EOPS Legacy. For more than five decades, EOPS has served as a transformative model for holistic, student-centered support. As the needs of our students evolve, so too must our practices, partnerships, advocacy, and leadership. This call for proposals invites sessions that move beyond discussion alone and toward meaningful strategies, promising practices, and courageous conversations that strengthen student success, equity, belonging, wellness, and economic mobility.
We seek dynamic proposals that align with the conference theme in one or more of the four strands; center the lived experiences, strengths, and aspirations of EOPS students; offer practical tools, models, or frameworks that can be adapted across colleges and regions; inspire collaboration, reflection, and action; and elevate the collective power of EOPS as a statewide movement for equity and opportunity.
Call for Proposals 57th Annual CCCEOPSA Conference EOPS Strong: Power in Unity
Economic Mobility
Somatic Wellness
This strand explores how EOPS can strengthen pathways that connect academic progress, degree completion, transfer, career exploration, workforce preparation, and long-term economic mobility. Proposals may address career-informed counseling, high-wage and high-demand career pathways, internships and employer partnerships, transfer-to-career alignment, financial stability, and strategies that help students move from educational achievement to meaningful employment and generational opportunity.
This strand centers wellness, belonging, and healing as essential components of student success and professional sustainability. Proposals may explore approaches that move beyond transactional support toward relationship-rich, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and human-centered practices. Sessions may also examine institutional conditions that affect EOPS students and professionals, including mental health, housing and food insecurity, compassion fatigue, workplace wellness, and strategies for building environments where students and practitioners can thrive.
Four Strands
Data Reveals Impact
Human-Centric AI
This strand invites proposals that use data, storytelling, assessment, and outcomes to affirm the value and impact of EOPS. Sessions may address how programs can translate retention, persistence, completion, transfer, employment, basic needs, and student experience data into compelling narratives for campus leadership, districts, boards, and statewide partners. Proposals may also explore how EOPS professionals can use data to protect program integrity, advocate for resources, improve services, and demonstrate that EOPS is not a cost center, but a student success center.
This strand examines how technology, including generative AI and digital tools, can responsibly reduce administrative burden, strengthen communication, support data-informed decision-making, and expand student access while preserving the human relationships at the heart of EOPS. Proposals may address ethical AI use, student AI literacy, administrative offloading, digital equity, student communication, professional development, and strategies for using technology to create more time for counseling, advocacy, mentorship, and connection.
Advancing Equity. Empowering Action. Together.
Roundtable Discussions
Roundtable discussions drive uniformity across 116 unique EOPS programs by breaking down institutional silos and creating a shared, human-centered blueprint. While traditional leadership communications serve to inform, collaborative roundtables build on that foundation to transform abstract goals into a collective, statewide mission.
