The Education Research & Opportunity Center is located within the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS) Department in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences (CEHSS) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. The Education Research & Opportunity Center was established in 2022 after the merger of The Center for Education Leadership, The Postsecondary Education Research Center, and the College Access and Persistence Services Outreach Center. Our work today builds on the long tradition of excellence established by these prior CEHSS efforts with a renewed passion and enhanced capacity for producing high-quality research, delivering high-impact outreach, and improving policy and practice in education.