For FGLI Students: Community, Mentorship, And More
FGLI Thrive & The Community Initiative
The Office of Educational Opportunity’s (OEO) FGLI Thrive program is proud to support and collaborate with the FGLI Community Initiative, a structural effort to empower first-generation low-income (FGLI) students at Yale. Through our FGLI First-Year and Sophomore peer mentorship groups, workshops to demystify the hidden curriculum, and individual support through our FGLI Thrive mentors and the Community Initiative’s FGLI Ambassadors, we seek to create communities and networks of support that will help FGLI students engage confidently and fully with all of Yale’s opportunities.
Below are descriptions of the OEO’s FGLI Thrive programs that support FGLI students. For more information about the Community Initiative and the finanical and social supports it provides, visit the Community Initiative website at https://fgli.yalecollege.yale.edu . For more information about the OEO’s FGLI Thrive program, contact Josh Faires, Assistant Director for FGLI Student Success, at joshua.faires@yale.edu.
FGLI Thrive Peer Mentorship Groups
This program places first-year and sophomore FGLI students in small peer groups led by an FGLI-identifying junior or senior OEO mentor. Students will receive in-depth information about important Yale resources and opportunities. The groups also serve as a safe space to talk through their experiences navigating Yale, making friends, and getting support. To sign up for a first-year group, click here: FGLI First-Year Peer Mentorship Groups. To sign up for a sophomore group, click here: FGLI Sophomore Peer Mentorship Groups.
FGLI Thrive Events
Throughout the academic year, the FGLI Thrive staff offers wokshops and events on topics like leadership, overcoming imposter syndrome, networking for careers, and other topics that will help students take advantage of Yale’s incredible resources. Sign up for the OEO’s Newsletter for a weekly calendar of these events and opportunities.
OEO Workshops and Individual Consultations
The Office of Educational Opportunity’s workshsops and 1-1 consultations are designed to be especially friendly to FGLI students. The majority of OEO mentors identify as FGLI and are representative of the full diversity of Yale’s undergraduate population. Workshops are designed to demystify Yale’s “hidden curriculum” and to help students confidently take advantage of all of Yale’s resources and opportunities. Our workshops cover everything from talking with faculty (as in our Cultivating Faculty Mentors workshop) to planning for study abroad and pre-professional opportunities (as in our Imagining Your Summer workshop).
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