AYA - Alumni Services

Alumni Benefits Highlights

The Alumni Benefits Committee of the AYA Board of Governors created a one-page reference of a host of the Alumni Benefits and Services highlighted below. This resource appeared in the May 2009 issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine.

Download a copy here.

Following is a sampling of benefits, services, privileges, and other opportunities provided by Yale which are open to alumni. They include both free and fee-based services.

Career Resources

For information about career services including the Yale Career Network and job posting information, click here.

Fitness and Leisure

Concerts

The School of Music regularly features concerts and recitals performed by students, faculty, and guest performers. Yale also has a great number of student groups including the Glee Club and other singing groups, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and other student bands – all of which hold concerts open to the public. Yale venues such as Woolsey Hall and Battell Chapel are often used for concerts by non-Yale groups such as the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.

The Yale Golf Course offers alumni daily rates and special membership packages for alumni.

Tickets for Yale home games can be purchased individually or as a season pass. Many sporting events are free of charge, as are all intramural events. Ticket information can be found at www.yalebulldogs.com/tickets/yale-tickets.html.

Theater

The Yale Drama School and the Yale Repertory Theatre have productions throughout the year; the Yale Cabaret has a special summer season. Numerous undergraduate productions take place year round.

Keeping in Touch

An online newsletter providing news to alumni about Yale initiatives, programs, and research.

Free online directory to update your own contact information, as well as giving you the ability to search for and keep in touch with Yale classmates.

A permanent e-mail forwarding alias (e.g., name@aya.yale.edu) that will automatically forward e-mail messages to any full service e-mail account of your choosing.

Online discussion lists to exchange ideas via e-mail and stay connected with other Yale alumni.

Your independent news source about Yale and its alumni. Six issues are published annually; free online access is also available.

Lifelong Learning

Educational Travel programs

Yale Educational Travel offers a wonderful array of programs to destinations around the world. The educational connection offered through Yale faculty lectures on our trips remains at the heart of the AYA travel programs.

Many campus organizations – including the residential colleges, the graduate and professional schools and departments, and student organizations – sponsor guest lectures and speakers throughout the year. Click here to see the Yale Events Calendar.

Netcasts/Podcasts

Interviews, speeches, and discussions given by Yale faculty, administrators, and special guests -- take them with you at no cost!

Download and listen to our library of hundreds of Netcasts in MP3 via common RSS aggregators at Yale's Netcast home or through iTunesU.

Open Yale courses

Free access to Yale undergraduate courses at your finger tips! Yale Open Courses provide online access to a growing collection of complete undergraduate courses. Watch high-quality video lectures and review syllabi, suggested reading lists, and problem sets.

Yale University YouTube Channel

Yale has established a relationship with YouTube to distribute videos of course lectures and other University material for free. Yale joins sister institutions Stanford University, MIT, Duke University and the University of California at Berkeley in providing outstanding educational content to YouTube users. In addition to video lectures from the Open Yale Courses project, there are hundreds of videos currently posted to the Yale University channel on YouTube, including a tour of the renovated Paul Rudolph Hall provided by Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern and Charles Gwathmey; President Levin’s 2008 Yale College baccalaureate address; the September 2008 Conversation with Tony Blair moderated by President Levin with Professor Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, and Lita Tandon ’10; the April 14, 2008 panel discussion on the national financial crisis moderated by President Levin (Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics) with panelists John Geanakoplos (James Tobin Professor of Economics) and Robert Shiller (Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics).

Yale Term Time Program for Alumni

Alumni and their spouses can audit a Yale College course (on campus and in person). This program is available only to degree-holding alumni and their spouses and includes library borrowing privileges during the semester. For information and application forms, click here. If you have any questions, please contact Judith Cushingham at judith.cushingham@yale.edu.

Services for Alumni Visitors with Special Needs

The AYA strives to make its alumni programs as accessible as possible to all alumni. Because individual needs vary and because we wish to respect personal preferences, AYA staff work with alumni on a case-by-case basis to identify the ways in which we can assist with those needs and accommodate them whenever and wherever possible. For more information, click here.

Yale Memories

Yale’s first - ever online photo store (powered by Replay Photos) was designed to provide alumni with one-stop shopping for framed and unframed prints, as well as imprinted canvas art, of imagery from all over campus.

Yale is pleased to make these photos available for the first time ever for purchase, through this easy-to-use Web site that allows customization as well as real-time customer support. The images will be updated on a regular basis so visit often at www.replayphotos.com/yalephotostore.

Yale Insignia Merchandise directory

Yale is also pleased to make available to alumni a directory of the University's officially licensed partners who offer Yale insignia merchandise online.

Alumni Benefits & Services

Benefits, Services, and Privileges available to Yale Alumni