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Office of Educational Opportunity & Academic Strategies

The Yale Office of Educational Opportunity (OEO) was created in July 2023 to centralize resources, information, and peer mentorship that supports student success inside and outside the classroom. A partnership between Yale College and the Poorvu Center for teaching and learning, The program consists of four programs: Academic Strategies, FGLI Thrive, STEM Navigators, and Disability Peer Mentors.

The Yale Academic Strategies Program is the flagship program of the OEO. We help students learn how to navigate the “hidden curriculum” of Yale–that invisible set of underlying assumptions and expectations about how to do well as a student that are implicitly embedded in Yale’s culture and are not taught in the classroom. By becoming aware of these implicit cultural-academic norms, students become empowered to take a new and more active kind of ownership over their own academic choices, and ultimately, to get the most out of their academic experience, no matter who they are or where they are in their educational journey. 

We give students the tools to do this through 1-1 mentoring sessions, group mentoring sessions, and interactive workshops with our amazing team of peer mentors.

Want to make an appointment? Email us anytime at academicstrategies@yale.edu!

We work with all students. See our menu to the left for links to our different kinds of support.

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