Yale Highlights GTP’s Impact in Rural STEM Education
Yale University has highlighted the work of the Global Teaching Project as a leading example of how Yale and its graduates “contribute to and learn from communities nationwide”.
Yale recently launched the “Impact of Yale Across America” series, which details how Yale alumni, faculty, and students are working alongside communities across the country to expand opportunity and address pressing challenges. The very first initiative spotlighted in the series is the Global Teaching Project’s work “Bringing AP classes to Mississippi’s most impoverished communities—for free.”
The Global Teaching Project works with faculty, graduates, and current students from over three dozen of the nation’s top universities to bring quality instruction and high-dose tutoring in Advanced Placement STEM courses to promising students in rural, high-poverty schools that otherwise may not be able to offer those courses.
Though GTP works with many universities, as Yale notes in an Instagram post accompanying the “Impact” series, GTP has “deep Yale roots”. GTP was founded by Yale alumnus Matt Dolan, recipient of the Yale Alumni Association’s 2025 Public Service Award. Yale graduates Kiran Ghia, Chief Strategy Advisor, and Oso Ifesinachukwu, Director of Outreach and Student Engagement, have a lead role in all aspects of GTP’s work. Yale Physics Professor Meg Urry has been part of GTP since its inception, developing content and traveling to Mississippi to work with students in person. A network of current Yale STEM majors and recent graduates serve as teaching assistants who work with AP classes year-round, both through videoconference tutoring sessions and in-person at residential instructional programs each summer at Mississippi State and each winter at Jackson State, as well as in school visits.
We are grateful to the educators and students from Yale and other universities across the country whose commitment continues to make GTP’s work possible.
