The Glendon Athletic Club (GAC) at York University’s Glendon Campus is currently accepting registrations for its 2023 summer tennis camps.
The GAC offers full-day instructional tennis camps for children ages six to 14, taught by certified tennis professionals. Campers will be grouped according to their age and ability and taken through a series of lessons designed to introduce new skills and build on the lessons and experiences from the day before.
A typical camp day includes on-court instruction, round-robin play plus multi-sport activities. Camp fee includes a souvenir and a fresh daily lunch served in our campus cafeteria. The camps run in July and August. Extended care service is also available at an additional cost. Online registration is available on the Glendon Athletic Club portal by clicking on CAMPS.
The Glendon Athletic Club is located at Bayview and Lawrence in North Toronto. The club is a 5,100-square-meter, full-use fitness facility located within Glendon Campus that offers aquatic, fitness and racquets facilities and programs. The GAC is open to York students, staff and faculty, alumni, as well outside community members.
Questions about the GAC’s tennis camps can be directed to Camp Director Aaron Rodrigues by email at arodrigues@glendon.yorku.ca. For registration assistance, email Patria Schaubel at patria@glendon.yorku.ca. Any other questions can be directed to the general email address gac@glendon.yorku.ca.
Memberships can now be purchased online on the Glendon Athletic Club website.
Join Glendon Community Conversation, March 14
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Dear York community,
I am pleased to invite you to join me for the York University Community Conversation: Glendon Campus on Tuesday, March 14.
The event is the first of a two-part series of conversations that will be held at Glendon and Keele campuses. Students, staff and faculty are welcome to join me in a conversation about how we can work together to drive positive change in areas such as:
contributing to high-quality, accessible education,
creating a more sustainable and equitable future for our local and global communities, and
Registration for the in-person event is limited to facilitate a meaningful dialogue. Please register early to avoid disappointment, indicating any questions, accessibility needs, notes or comments using this form.
The York University Community Conversation: Glendon Campus will also be livestreamed via YouTube. A separate viewing room will be set up in Lecture Hall YH A100 and light refreshments will be provided at both physical locations. Masks are not mandatory but are strongly recommended.
You can also find preliminary details for the forthcoming Community Conversation: Keele Campus below.
Access the Community Conversations YouTube livestream link on the Community Conversations website or by clicking the link above.
The latest community updates, resources and answers to frequently asked questions can always be found on our newly updated Better Together website.
I look forward to meeting with members of our community and learning more about how we can work together to drive positive change.
Sincerely, Rhonda L. Lenton President & Vice-Chancellor
Joignez-vous à moi le 14 mars pour une conversation au sujet du campus Glendon et de l’Université York
Chère communauté de York,
J’ai le plaisir de vous inviter à vous joindre à moi pour la Conversation communautaire de l’Université York : campus Glendon le mardi 14 mars.
Cet événement est le premier volet de deux conversations qui se tiendront sur les campus Glendon et Keele. J’invite les membres de la communauté étudiante, du personnel et du corps professoral à se joindre à moi pour discuter de la manière dont nous pouvons travailler ensemble pour apporter des changements positifs dans des domaines comme :
contribuer à un enseignement accessible et de qualité
créer un avenir plus durable et plus équitable pour nos communautés locales et mondiales
L’inscription à l’événement en personne est limitée afin de faciliter un dialogue constructif. Veuillez vous inscrire rapidement pour éviter toute déception, en indiquant vos questions, besoins d’accessibilité, notes ou commentaires à l’aide de ce formulaire.
Conversation communautaire de l’Université York : campus Glendon sera également transmise en direct sur YouTube. Une salle de visionnement sera installée dans l’amphithéâtre YH A100. Des rafraîchissements seront offerts aux deux emplacements. Le port du masque est recommandé, mais n’est pas obligatoire. Veuillez trouver ci-dessous les détails préliminaires pour la prochaine Conversation communautaire sur le campus Keele.
Si vous désirez soumettre une question pendant la webémission, veuillez envoyer votre question dans un courriel à conversations@yorku.ca.
Autres renseignements :
Accédez à la diffusion de la conversation communautaire sur YouTube sur le site des Conversations communautaires ou en cliquant sur le lien ci-dessus.
Vous trouverez les dernières mises à jour, ressources et réponses aux questions fréquemment posées sur notre site Web Mieux ensemble.
J’ai hâte de rencontrer les membres de notre communauté et d’en apprendre davantage sur la façon dont nous pouvons travailler ensemble pour apporter des changements positifs.
Sincères salutations, Rhonda L. Lenton Présidente et vice-chancelière
Nominations open for Glendon Principal’s Excellence Research Award
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Nominations for the Principal’s Excellence Research Award are now open.
The Principal’s Excellence Research Awards are given annually to recognize researchers at Glendon who have made an outstanding contribution to research in the last five years. The purpose of these awards is to provide recognition for and to promote research excellence across Glendon, the University and in the wider community.
Up to three awards will be offered per calendar year, one in each category:
Emerging Researcher – The emerging category is for tenure-stream and tenured faculty within five years of their first academic appointment (i.e., after 2018) and includes colleagues on Contractually Limited Appointments and Special Renewable contracts. Established Researcher –The established category is for tenured faculty who were appointed to their first academic post more than five years before the date of the award deadline (i.e., before 2018). Contract Faculty Researcher – Nominees must have taught at Glendon for at least three years.
Recipients will be recognized at the closing event of the Research Festival scheduled for April 6.
Review the eligibility criteria and nominate a colleague to this year’s competition. The submission deadline is March 20.
Glendon professor’s new album inspired by China tour
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Singer-songwriter, violinist, guitarist and retired Glendon Campus ESL Professor Brian Morgan is a multi-talented scholar and musician. Once hailed as the first Canadian to record in China, Morgan has released Curve of the Earth, a new album inspired by his time there in the 1980s.
Brian Morgan
Representing Bethune College as an exchange student at the Sichuan Foreign Language Institute (SFLI) in Chongqing, China from 1987 to 1988, Morgan immersed himself in the language and culture of the region while teaching and studying to inform a distinct, inventive sound with his retro rock band Bage Gao Bizi, or Eight High Noses in English.
With a background in ethnomusicology and anthropology – comprising his double-major BA from York – and a passion for the arts from every corner of the globe, Morgan jumped at the chance to live in Chongqing as an English teacher when David Lumsden, former master of Bethune, created the pioneering exchange program with the SFLI.
Featured in the June 1988 issue of The Canadian Composer, which highlighted the originality of Morgan’s work at the time, his single “Lonely Room” was inspired by, and recorded in, Chongqing. Thanks to that track, and regular gigs with Bage Gao Bizi, the uniqueness of Morgan’s songs fostered a fascination in locals. Morgan recalls his performance of the traditional folk song “Jasmine” in Mandarin was always a particular favourite at public events.
Curve of the Earth (2023) by Brian Morgan
Curve of the Earth, his latest work released in January, demonstrates Morgan’s affinity for the erhu, a historic Chinese instrument that is held in the lap and played like a large violin.
The album is currently available on Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube. Morgan’s recent work, with selections from Curve of the Earth, will be on display at upcoming shows at Hirut Restaurant, Feb. 19 from 2 to 5 p.m; and the Winterfolk Blues & Roots Festival, Feb. 24 to 26. Click here for more information on Morgan and his music, and for Winterfolk Festival details and tickets, click here.
Inaugural best paper award goes to York professor, student
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A York faculty member and graduate student have won the inaugural Alexis de Tocqueville Award for the best conference paper on democracy and public opinion, an award given by the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).
Andrew Dawson
Andrew Dawson, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the Glendon Campus of York University, and Isabel Krakoff, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, were announced as the winners during WAPOR’s 75th conference.
The paper “Political Trust and Democracy: The Critical Citizens Thesis Re-Examined” empirically assesses competing perspectives on the relationship between democracy and political trust. It draws upon data from the World Values Survey, the European Values Study and several other sources to undertake multi-level analyses using a cross-national panel dataset of 82 countries for the period 1990-2020.
The findings suggest there is a strong, negative relationship between democracy and political trust that cannot be easily dismissed as an artifact of model misspecification or response bias.
The authors re-examine the critical citizens thesis by disaggregating political trust into trust in partisan and non-partisan institutions, following recent studies suggesting that there are both theoretical and empirical rationales to do so.
Dawson is a member of both the Graduate Program in Sociology and the Master’s in Public and International Affairs Program and is an associate editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology. His primary areas of research interest are political sociology; violence and development, with a focus on state legitimacy; political and social trust; democracy and the rule of law. He has pursued an empirical and cross-national research agenda in these fields that draws upon both quantitative and comparative historical methods. This research has been published in various sociology and social science journals, including the British Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Science History, World Development, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
Krakoff is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology. She completed her MA in international affairs with a concentration in global gender policy in 2018 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. before moving to Canada for her PhD. She is currently working on her dissertation exploring the intersection of right-wing populism and human rights claims. Her research interests include political sociology, the study of race and racism, critical sexuality studies, global gender policy, and mixed methods research.
Glendon’s partnership with Toronto French School is an EE success
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By Elaine Smith
The partnership offers a win-win for students at Glendon and the Toronto French School. The collaboration between the two institutions has led to a full-year experiential education (EE) opportunity in the form of a professional work placement course.
When Mallory Nettleton heard about the opportunity to engage students at Toronto French School (TFS) with the outdoors, “It sounded exactly like what I want to do.”
Julie Marguet
Nettleton, a 2022 Glendon graduate who is now earning her teaching credentials in French immersion and biology, is a strong believer in outdoor education and conservation and immediately contacted Julie Marguet, manager of partnerships and program development for Glendon’s professional development centre, about the Fall 2022 pilot program.
As an attempt to broaden EE opportunities for Glendon students, Glendon approached TFS early in 2022 to see if there were possibilities of working together. TFS was looking at ways to get their students away from their devices and screens and out into nature, and Glendon had students preparing for education careers who were eager for some hands-on experience. The collaboration between the two has led to a full-year professional work placement course that matches Glendon students with TFS faculty to lead activities in what Marguet calls “the outdoor classroom.”
“In the University Academic Plan, York University has highlighted its commitment to ‘attain the goal of providing every student with an experiential learning opportunity, regardless of program,’” Marguet said. “The strong Glendon-TFS alliance answers that call by providing meaningful, work-focused experiential education to all Glendon students through an equitable and accessible multidisciplinary approach.”
It is also part of a larger experiential effort, Projet FranCOnnexion, to support and highlight local francophone EE along Toronto’s Bayview corridor, an initiative supported by Canadian Heritage in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of Education for Official Language Minority Communities, as well as partners such as Oxford Learning and the Canadian Film Centre.
For their professional work placement, upper-year Glendon students spend eight paid hours each week working with TFS students on outdoor activities that are appropriate for their grade levels. There are scavenger hunts conducted in French that require young students to find items such as one petal and two leaves as a way of teaching numeracy, games based on nature and walks through the nearby ravine system to discuss the local ecosystem. They also required to meet with their professor bi-weekly to hone skills such as leadership and communications that they can use at TFS and throughout their careers and to participate in career modules in collaboration with Glendon’s career centre.
“Through skill awareness, skill acquisition and skill articulation, we want to set our students up for success,” said Marguet.
The outdoor specialists’ pilot began in September 2022 with six students and its success has led to a second, three-credit version that began in January 2023 and is focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) leadership.
“TFS was thrilled to have potential teaching candidates filling these placements,” Marguet said. “We will continue to look for ways to expand and diversify this cherished partnership.”
The project now involves 18 Glendon students although many more applied. Marguet required all applicants to work with the career centre to craft a resume, which she reviewed. She met with each of the applicants and chose a set of resumes to forward to TFS. Their staff selected students to interview, which required an additional student foray to the career centre for guidance about job interviews.
“We want our students, even those who aren’t chosen for the program, to build their career toolbox,” Marguet said.
When asked about the program, Nettleton said, “Honestly, it’s dream job stuff. I’m so inspired to get to work with students outdoors in a natural setting on an ongoing basis. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy being there and how much I’m taking in.
“I’m interested in watching how the teachers I work with manage their classrooms and keep students engaged and it’s great to see the students connect what they’re learning to the bigger picture. It’s exciting to see these processes happen and to discover the different strategies that teachers use for different age groups. To watch the students get passionate about the subjects we’re talking about is absolutely incredible.”
Gertrude Mianda Prize for student essays that challenge race inequity
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Two students at York University have earned recognition for essay writing that analyzes and challenges race inequity and are recipients of the Gertrude Mianda Prize for Excellence in Essay Writing.
The essay prize is awarded to undergraduate or graduate students at York’s Glendon Campus whose essay is judged by the Glendon Race Equity Caucus (CERREC) to be of excellent quality. The award comes with a $500 honorarium and the prize will be administered by the Glendon Race Equity Caucus (CERREC) adjudication committee.
CERREC recently announced two winners for the Gertrude Mianda Prize – VernettaAvril and Geneviève François-Kermode.
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Vernetta Avril
Avril is a Sanctuary Scholar who is currently completing a BA in cognitive neuropsychology at York University’s Glendon Campus, as well as a BEd at the Keele Campus. She holds certificates in counselling, community mental health and crisis intervention and prevention. Avril is an experienced mentor in the York community as a peer mentor and the community at large. She is also a member the S4 collective-man organization which aims to increase equitable access to education to Sanctuary Scholars in Canada. She is passionate and enthusiastic about working with and helping individuals with precarious immigration status and effecting meaningful change in their lives.
Her essay “Migrants at the margin: On Sanctuary Students, Sanctuary Cities and Accessible pathways to Citizenship” examines how historically racist immigration policy in Canada has operated in ways that systematically and pervasively deny access to racialized migrants. Consequently, options for permanent residence have been shaped, and frequently reshaped, to offer permanent residence to certain migrants while resulting in barriers for others. Through racialized exclusion in the immigration system, Sanctuary Scholars – a unique and invisible subset of the population – experience unnecessary barriers accessing citizenship pathways even while living in the Sanctuary City of Toronto. The paper aims to interrogate dominant discourses of citizenship, to help shed some light on the issues that Sanctuary Scholars face, and to propose a citizenship pathway specifically tailored for Sanctuary Scholars that provides equitable access to citizenship.
“Thank you for the honour and privilege of being a recipient of the Gertrude Mianda Prize and for recognizing the importance of Sanctuary Scholars and the issues affecting them,” said Avril. “This is a win for all Sanctuary Scholars on York University’s campuses.”
Geneviève François-Kermode
Geneviève François-Kermode
François-Kermode is a fourth-year undergraduate student at York University in the Gender and Women’s Studies program, as well as the Humanities in the Power, Diaspora and Race stream. Academically, she has focused her writing on themes pertaining to gender and queerness, disability, anit-racism and intersectionality, centering her Haitian roots in much of her work.
Outside of academia, she has been involved in activism on multiple fronts, including working NGOs and participating in grassroots movements in Toronto. She is currently writing a book that focuses on radical love and communal care as practices of futurity, and plans to do a master of social work to apply these concepts to marginalized communities on the ground.
François-Kermode’s essay was written for the course Race, Gender, Transitional Justice and the Politics of Memory, and focuses on the ways in which personal positionality, history and memory intersect. It begins by examining the author’s relation to the politics of invisibility as a queer disabled Haitian woman. The author then discusses the Haitian revolution, its relevance to historical and current geopolitical situations, and her relation to this significant historical event as a Haitian Canadian queer disabled woman. Using the lens of decoloniality, the author argues that the Haitian revolution is one of the most important events in decolonial history, that continues to be silenced by the west. However, the politics of memory allow us to recover this history and its possibilities for continued resistance today.
The author explores dance as an alternate method of memory recovery that insists on the humanity and resistance of enslaved peoples on Haitian soil and their descendants. Finally, as a diasporic Haitian on Turtle Island, the author stresses the importance of recognizing decoloniality as an ongoing process by Indigenous peoples on this land, and the necessity for solidarity between peoples facing the continued effects of colonialism today.
“I am very honoured to have been awarded the Gertrude Mianda Prize for Excellence in Essay Writing as a recognition of the importance of writing about challenging race inequity,” said François-Kermode. “I am grateful that my essay on the Haitian revolution was selected, as it has allowed the continued struggles of Haitians to be highlighted. I am thankful for the continued work for race equity of the members of CERREC.”
For more information on the Gertrude Mianda Prize for Excellence in Essay Writing, email cerrec.glendon@gmail.com.
About Gertrude Mianda Gertrude Mianda is a full professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Glendon. She was previously the director of the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University from 2011-15. Mianda holds a PhD in sociology (gender and development) from the University of Laval at Québec. She is a sociologist, feminist and Africanist whose work is rigorously inter- and pluri-disciplinary. Researcher, francophone, African and a woman who has carried out research in and about African and the African diaspora for three decades, Mianda challenges gender and race inequities in her research, her teaching, in all of her collegial practices and in the community.
About Glendon’s Race Equity Caucus (CERREC) Glendon’s Race Equity Caucus (CERREC) is led by racialized part and full-time faculty. The CERREC is a place of support for racialized faculty and students at Glendon. The CERREC coordinates actions to further race equity at the Glendon campus. CERREC cooperates closely with the Race Equity Caucus (REC) at the Keele campus while being responsive to the specificities of Glendon.
Prix Gertrude Mianda pour les dissertations étudiantes qui remettent en question l’inégalité raciale
Deux étudiantes de l’Université York ont été récompensées pour leurs essais qui analysent et remettent en question l’inégalité raciale. Elles ont reçu le Prix Gertrude Mianda d’excellence en rédaction d’essai.
Le prix en rédaction d’essai est décerné aux étudiantes et étudiants de premier cycle ou de cycle supérieur du campus Glendon de York dont la dissertation est jugée d’excellente qualité par le Caucus d’équité raciale de Glendon (CERREC). Le prix est assorti d’une rétribution de 500 $ et il sera administré par le comité de sélection du CERREC.
Le CERREC a récemment annoncé les noms des deux lauréates du Prix Gertrude Mianda : Vernetta Avril et Geneviève François-Kermode.
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Vernetta Avril
Vernetta Avril est une boursière du programme Sanctuary Scholars. Elle prépare actuellement un B.A. en neuropsychologie cognitive au campus Glendon, ainsi qu’un B. Éd. au campus Keele de l’Université York. Elle est titulaire de certificats en counseling, en santé mentale communautaire et en intervention et prévention des crises. Mme Avril est une mentore expérimentée dans la communauté de York en tant que mentore paire et dans la communauté en général. Elle est également membre de l’organisation « S4 collective-man » qui vise à accroître l’accès équitable à l’éducation pour le programme Sanctuary Scholars au Canada. Elle est passionnée et enthousiaste à l’idée de travailler avec les personnes ayant un statut d’immigration précaire, de les aider et d’apporter des changements significatifs dans leur vie.
Son essai « Migrants at the margin: On Sanctuary Students, Sanctuary Cities and Accessible pathways to Citizenship » examine la façon dont la politique raciste d’immigration à travers l’histoire du Canada a fonctionné pour refuser systématiquement l’accès aux migrants racialisés. Par conséquent, les options de résidence permanente ont été façonnées et souvent remodelées afin d’offrir la résidence permanente à certains types de migrants tout en créant des obstacles pour d’autres. En raison de l’exclusion racialisée du système d’immigration, les boursiers et boursières du programme Sanctuary Scholars – une sous-catégorie unique et invisible de la population – rencontrent des obstacles inutiles pour accéder à la citoyenneté, même lorsqu’ils et elles vivent dans la ville sanctuaire de Toronto. Son article vise à interroger les discours dominants sur la citoyenneté, à contribuer à éclairer les problèmes auxquels ces personnes sont confrontées et à proposer un parcours de citoyenneté qui leur est spécialement adapté et qui offre un accès équitable à la citoyenneté.
« Merci pour l’honneur et le privilège d’être lauréate du Prix Gertrude Mianda et pour avoir reconnu l’importance du programme Sanctuary Scholars et des problèmes liés », a déclaré Mme Avril. « C’est une victoire pour tous les boursiers et boursières du programme Sanctuary Scholars sur les campus de l’Université York. »
Geneviève François-Kermode
Geneviève François-Kermode
Geneviève François-Kermode est une étudiante de quatrième année à l’Université York; elle est inscrite au programme d’études des femmes et de genre avec une spécialisation sur le pouvoir, la diaspora et la race au sein des sciences humaines. Sur le plan universitaire, elle a axé ses écrits sur des thèmes liés au genre et à la différence, au handicap, à l’antiracisme et à l’intersectionnalité, en mettant l’accent sur ses racines haïtiennes dans la plupart de ses travaux.
En dehors du milieu universitaire, elle s’est engagée dans l’activisme sur plusieurs fronts, notamment en travaillant pour des ONG et en participant à des mouvements populaires à Toronto. Elle écrit actuellement un livre qui porte sur l’amour radical et les soins communautaires en tant que pratiques de la futurité. Elle prévoit faire une maîtrise en travail social pour appliquer ces concepts aux communautés marginalisées sur le terrain.
L’essai de Mme François-Kermode a été rédigé pour le cours Race, Gender, Transitional Justice and the Politics of Memory, et porte sur les façons dont la position personnelle, l’histoire et la mémoire s’entrecroisent. Il commence par examiner la relation de l’autrice avec la politique d’invisibilité en tant que femme haïtienne queer en situation de handicap. L’autrice discute ensuite de la révolution haïtienne, de sa pertinence par rapport aux situations géopolitiques historiques et actuelles, et de sa relation avec cet événement historique important en tant que femme canadienne et haïtienne queer en situation de handicap. En utilisant le prisme de la décolonialité, l’autrice soutient que la révolution haïtienne est l’un des événements les plus importants de l’histoire décoloniale, mais qu’il continue d’être passé sous silence par l’Occident. Cependant, les politiques de la mémoire nous permettent de rétablir cette histoire et ses possibilités de poursuivre la résistance aujourd’hui.
L’autrice explore la danse comme méthode alternative de rétablissement de la mémoire qui insiste sur l’humanité et la résistance des peuples asservis et de leurs descendants sur le sol haïtien. Enfin, en tant qu’Haïtienne diasporique sur l’île de la Tortue, l’autrice souligne l’importance de reconnaître la décolonialité comme un processus continu des peuples autochtones sur cette terre, et la nécessité de la solidarité entre les peuples confrontés aux effets continus du colonialisme aujourd’hui.
« Je suis très honorée d’avoir reçu le Prix Gertrude Mianda d’excellence en rédaction d’essai, qui souligne l’importance de l’écriture pour remettre en question l’inégalité raciale », a déclaré Mme François-Kermode. « Je suis reconnaissante que mon essai sur la révolution haïtienne ait été sélectionné, car il a permis de mettre en lumière les luttes continues des personnes haïtiennes. Je suis reconnaissante aux membres du CERREC pour leur travail continu en faveur de l’équité raciale. »
Pour plus d’informations sur le Prix Gertrude Mianda d’excellence en rédaction d’essai, envoyez un courriel à cerrec.glendon@gmail.com.
Gertrude Mianda
Gertrude Mianda est professeure titulaire du programme d’études des femmes et de genre à Glendon. Elle a dirigé l’École des études des femmes et de genre et sur la sexualité de l’Université York de 2011 à 2015. Mme Mianda est titulaire d’un doctorat en sociologie (genre et développement) de l’Université Laval à Québec. Elle est sociologue, féministe et africaniste, et ses travaux sont rigoureusement inter et pluridisciplinaires. À titre de chercheuse, francophone, africaine et femme qui mène des recherches sur l’Afrique et la diaspora africaine depuis trois décennies, Mme Mianda remet en question les inégalités entre les genres et les races dans ses recherches, son enseignement, dans toutes ses pratiques collégiales et dans la communauté.
À propos du Caucus d’équité raciale de Glendon
Le Caucus d’équité raciale de Glendon (CERREC) est dirigé par des membres racialisés du corps professoral, à temps partiel et à temps plein. Le CERREC est un lieu de soutien pour les membres racialisés du corps professoral et de la population étudiante de Glendon. Il coordonne les actions visant à promouvoir l’équité raciale sur le campus Glendon et coopère étroitement avec le Caucus d’équité raciale (REC) du campus Keele, tout en étant réceptif aux particularités de Glendon.
Year in Review 2022: Top headlines at York University, September to December
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As a new year emerges, YFile takes a look back on 2022 to share with readers a snapshot of the year’s highlights. “Year in Review” will run as a three-part series and will feature a selection of top news stories published in YFile. Here are the stories and highlights for September to December, as chosen by YFile editors.
An installation at the Nuit Blanche exhibit at York University
‘Nuit Blanche comes to York University’s Keele Campus As part of the celebrated arts festival Nuit Blanche 2022, the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) and York University presents Streams~Nuit Blanche, an evening of campus-wide exhibitions, art installations and events featuring 34 artists and showcasing 19 projects located around the central core of the Keele Campus.
Current student Katelyn Truong pictured with York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton in front of her selected artwork for the Markham Hoarding art installation
YFile reaches 20-year milestone York University’s source for faculty and staff news is celebrating its 20-year anniversary on Sept. 9. One of North America’s longest-running university newsletters, YFile is marking the date with a special issue.
York University announces appointment of new chancellor York University’s Board of Governors appointed Kathleen Taylor as York’s 14th chancellor to a three-year term, effective Jan. 1, 2023. The appointment follows outgoing Chancellor Gregory Sorbara, who was first appointed in 2014 and is leaving the role after more than nine years of distinguished service to York.
Global Strategy Lab awarded $8.7M to create AMR Policy Accelerator Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats humanity faces today. Decades of use, overuse and misuse of antimicrobials in animals and humans has led to the development of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that no longer respond to lifesaving antimicrobial medicines.
Osgoode students make their mark at Supreme Court of Canada It’s a rare experience – even for seasoned lawyers, but a select group of students at Osgoode Hall Law School can now add the Supreme Court of Canada to their resumes through their work on a case that was heard Nov. 29.
Five York PhD students receive Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship The award is intended to support first-rate doctoral students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in the fields of social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, engineering and health. The selection criteria include academic excellence, research potential and leadership.
December
Osgoode grads earn clerkships at Canada’s highest court and beyond Two recent graduates from Osgoode Hall Law School, Barbara Brown and Jennah Khaled, will both serve Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) justices through their upcoming 2023-24 clerkships. Many of their classmates are headed to similarly prestigious positions.
Lassonde’s k2i academy introduces teacher resources for de-streaming Grade 9 science in Ontario EIn 2022, the Ontario Ministry of Education released the new Grade 9 de-streamed science curriculum. The k2i academy at the Lassonde School of Engineering was selected by the Ontario Ministry of Education to develop classroom-ready resources to support teachers across Ontario. After months of work, the new resource is now available.
Mohamed Sesay, co-ordinator of the African Studies Program
Black scholars form new interdisciplinary research cluster A group of professors affiliated in various ways with York University’s African Studies Program join forces to create a unique, interdisciplinary research cluster focusing on adaptive knowledge, response, recovery and resilience in transnational Black communities.
The engine behind human gut microbiome analysis and data science As his career unfolds, biostatistician Kevin McGregor is becoming very familiar with the human gut microbiome. His work is particularly relevant given the human biome is a community of microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and appears to be linked to numerous health concerns, both physical and mental.
This concludes YFile‘s Year in Review 2022 series. To see part one, January to April, go here.To see part two, May to August, go here.
Year in Review 2022: Top headlines at York University, May to August
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As a new year emerges, YFile takes a look back on 2022 to share with readers a snapshot of the year’s highlights. “Year in Review” will run as a three-part series and will feature a selection of top news stories published in YFile. Here are the stories and highlights for May to August, as chosen by YFile editors.
May
Roojin Habibi
Osgoode doctoral student named Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar As the daughter of Kurdish migrants who were uprooted from their home after the 1979 Iranian revolution, Roojin Habibi was naturally drawn to the study and practice of human rights law. It was only later that the accomplished doctoral researcher at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University decided to dedicate herself to the pursuit of global health justice.
A new knowledge hub at Glendon takes aim at shortage of French language teachers Demand for French-language education is on the rise as parents hope to give their children an edge in their lives and careers, but Canada is struggling to keep up with the need for French language teachers, with an estimated shortfall of 10,000 teachers across the country. The new Camerise hub seeks to resolve the dilemma.
Immersive audio experience takes listeners into the drug overdose crisis Cinema and Media Arts Professor Brenda Longfellow has been working with Darkfield, a U.K. theatre company specializing in immersive audio, and Crackdown, a monthly podcast covering the drug war through the eyes of drug user activists, to produce Intravene to plunge listeners into the heart of the overdose crisis in Vancouver.
Pandemic reveals systemic issues facing mothers As families get ready to celebrate mothers this Mother’s Day with most COVID-19 pandemic related public health restrictions lifted, one York University motherhood expert says the pandemic has acted as a beacon to expose longstanding cracks in systems of caregiving, women’s rights and gender equality.
June
Graduands, alumni to cross stage in person during 2022 Spring Convocation The long-standing tradition of graduating students crossing a stage to accept a diploma returned to York University’s Keele and Glendon Campuses when 2022 Spring Convocation was celebrated with in-person ceremonies for the first time since 2019.
New funding expands use of VR technology in undergraduate chemistry teaching Faculty of Science chemistry Professors Kyle Belozerov and Derek Jackson have received new funding to expand the use of virtual reality (VR) technology in chemistry courses to help students understand the structure and function of biological molecules at a deeper level.
Professor Steven Hoffman takes new leadership role at Public Health Agency of Canada York Professor Steven Hoffman will began a new role as vice-president corporate data and surveillance at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). As the former scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Institute of Population and Public Health, he brings significant expertise to the agency to help shape the future of public health responses in Canada.
Paria Shahverdi (left) and Mona Frial-Brown (right)
Mona Frial-Brown named recipient of the 2022 Lynda Tam Guiding Light and Legacy Award The Advising Community of Practice and Peer Leader Community of Practice has selected Mona Frial-Brown, manager of student success and access programs in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), to receive the 2022 Lynda Tam Guiding Light and Legacy Award.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new, two-storey, state-of-the-art Neuroscience Laboratory and Research Building took place on July 27
Extension of York’s world-class research centre underway Construction is underway for a new, two-storey, state-of-the-art Neuroscience Laboratory and Research Building at York University that will advance research and innovation while providing students with experiential education opportunities.
Maya Chacaby
York invests in Indigenous experiential education curriculum York University’s Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) has invested in Biskaabiiyaang: The Indigenous Metaverse to develop its Indigenized curriculum and create experiential education opportunities. Professor Maya Chacaby, a Sociology Department faculty member at Glendon Campus, is the project lead and Biskaabiiyaang’s chief visionary.
Check back in the next edition of YFile for Year in Review 2022: Top headlines at York University, September to December.To see part one, January to April, go here.
York professors co-author introductory book on machine learning
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A new book that explores how machine learning can be applied to decision-making in practical settings is co-authored by three York faculty members along with a colleague from Ontario Health.
The textbook titled Machine Learning for Practical Decision Making: A Multidisciplinary Perspective with Applications from Healthcare, Engineering & Business Analytics offers real-life examples for novice readers with no previous technical background. It provides a hands-on approach to teach practical machine learning skills in health care, business and engineering applications.
Authors of the book are: Christo El Morr, associate professor of health informatics in York’s Faculty of Health; Manar Jammal, assistant professor of information technology in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies; Hossam Ali-Hassan, associate professor of business administration at York’s Glendon Campus; and Walid El-Hallak from Ontario Health.
“The book is intended to help students have a smooth introduction to machine learning using a hands-on approach,” said El Morr.
The book uses simple language, and a straightforward approach, to introduce machine learning, and will help readers understand key algorithms, major software tools, and their applications. Through real-world examples, the book demonstrates how and when to use machine learning in decision-making processes across various disciplines.
The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students who are taking an introductory course in machine learning. It will also benefit data analysts and anyone interested in understanding machine learning approaches.
