Launching The Office Hour Effect

For the past few years, my work has focused on access — access to technology, access to learning, and access to opportunities that already exist but often go unused.

The next step in that mission is The Office Hour Effect.

Across universities, one of the most powerful academic resources is also the most underutilized: office hours. They are built for mentorship, deeper learning, and real relationships with professors — yet many students never walk through the door. Not because they don’t care, but because they don’t know how to start, don’t feel like they belong, or don’t realize how transformative a single conversation can be.

The Office Hour Effect is a national campaign to change that.

Through campus partnerships, print materials, and a simple QR-based system, the project makes office hours visible, normal, and rewarding. The goal is not just to increase attendance, but to shift culture — from seeing office hours as remedial to seeing them as a tool for growth, curiosity, and community.

This initiative takes the core idea behind TutrMePrep — helping students use the resources around them with confidence — and applies it at scale across colleges.

Because sometimes the difference between struggling in a class and discovering what you’re capable of is one conversation.

More updates soon as we begin working with our first campuses.

Learn more at https://officehoureffect.com/