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The mission of Clarkson University’s Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), is to provide access and opportunity to obtain a college degree for eligible New York State residents to the full extent of experiences Clarkson has to offer. HEOP students are provided with sufficient academic support services, tuition assistance, supplemental financial assistance, and full need packaging to enable them to successfully complete the institutional degree components required to graduate. We strive to create a supportive community that celebrates, nurtures and educates all students to become their best personal and professional self.

The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program (McNair) and the Collegiate Science & Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) provides eligible students academic enrichment, graduate school preparation, career and professional development, research opportunities, and social and cultural experiences.

• Academic support: academic advisement, private tutoring, academic success workshops, and a book and laptop loan library
• Enriching activities: conferences, cultural and social activities
• Career development: resume writing, professional skill workshops, speakers, industry visits, and internship/co-op guidance
• Graduate school preparedness: faculty mentors, speakers (PhDs), research opportunities, conferences to present research, GRE prep, GRE exam support, graduate application assistance, funding to visit graduate schools and workshops

These programs provide students with individual and group study space. Students also have access to free printing and scanning . Student study space is available during regular office hours, and extended study hours are available, especially during midterms and finals.

Every year we produce a journal of research from the previous summer.

Army ROTC offers the broadest path for young men and women seeking to serve the nation as Army officers, helping them to achieve their goal. It's graduates comprise the majority of the newly commissioned lieutenants entering active duty Army each year.

Students with a strong academic background who are physically fit and have an active mind and the ability to rapidly assimilate information thrive in the program. These scholar-athlete-leaders (SALs) note that the leadership skills developed through their participation in the program are further honed during their period of service as Army officers.

Clarkson's Army ROTC Program

The Army ROTC program provides world class training and the opportunity to commission as an Army officer upon graduation. Cadets wishing to continue past their sophomore year must sign a contract and make a commitment to serve when they graduate. In return, all contracted cadets receive a monthly stipend during their junior and senior years.

The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) program at Clarkson University develops commissioned officers for both the United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Space Force (USSF) by providing cadets with essential leadership mentorship, time & stress management, organization, interpersonal skills, and military knowledge.

Cadets who successfully complete all AFROTC requirements and earn a bachelor’s degree will commission as Second Lieutenants and enter the active duty Air Force or Space Force.

Cadets do not have to immediately commit to a service obligation; the cadet becomes obligated at the start of a cadet's junior year or when their scholarship is activated.

AFROTC Detachment 536 services all qualified students from the four campuses of the Associated Colleges of the St. Lawrence Valley: Clarkson University, Saint Lawrence University, SUNY Canton, and SUNY Potsdam.  

Clarkson’s Department of Psychology provides a solid foundation in psychology and courses of study in the areas that interest you most, with customized education tracks that can be developed to fit your goals. Our low student-to-faculty ratio provides hands-on learning experiences like directed research, during which you work closely with one of our full-time faculty members on an experiment of mutual interest.

We also offer clinical internships, during which you work with professional psychologists in clinical settings in a variety of fields (e.g., neurorehabilitation, mental health, drug and alcohol rehabilitation). Check out the research projects that our students have done throughout their time at Clarkson.

As for facilities, the Evolution of Cognition Lab allows students to study how natural selection has shaped the cognitive mechanisms underlying human decision-making behavior under risk and uncertainty and how these mechanisms operate in domains such as risk-taking, mate choice and foraging for food and information. The Social Development and Health Research Lab examines how social pain negatively impacts mental and physical health, as well as how people determine when to offer help or express concern when they see someone experiencing health problems. In the Motivation & Emotion Lab, researchers study how motivation affects social perceptions, relationships and behavior. The Culture, Family, and Child Development Lab explores how contextual factors shape children's development of self-regulation by looking into the intersecting contributions of context in cultural and socioeconomic conditions and nurture in family relationships and secure attachment.

In the Hearing and Attention Lab, we use electrophysiology and neuroimaging to examine the effects of directed attention on auditory processing and how these effects are modulated by factors like cognitive skill and task difficulty. Additional work both within our lab and in collaboration with external investigators aims develop objective diagnostic techniques for clinical populations where these capacities may be disturbed. The Phenomenology Lab allows students to explore the subjective experience of those with mental disorders, as well as the human experience more generally.