March 18, 2020
The Office of Student Community & Leadership Development in the Division of Students hosted its inaugural Spark leadership summit on Friday, Feb. 7. The event took place in the Second Student Centre on the Keele Campus. The summit marked the beginning of a renewed leadership development journey at York University and participants included students, staff and faculty.
March 17, 2020
To ensure the health and safety of our campus communities and to prevent the risk and spread of COVID-19, York University is moving to offer only required services on its campuses. Effective by the end of day Thursday, March 19, buildings on the University’s campuses will close with limited access as needed for required services.
March 13, 2020
Beginning on March 16, York University will be suspending all face-to-face instruction and moving courses to online formats. The University is committed to completing the term and will deploy all of its resources to support faculty and students through this transition. As of midnight on March 13, the University has cancelled or postponed all non-essential events that are not required as part of an academic program. The Tait Mackenzie Centre and the Glendon Athletic Club will be closed until April 30. The Keele and Glendon campuses will remain open, and research activities will continue.
March 13, 2020
A team of students from the Master of Real Estate and Infrastructure (MREI) program at Schulich School of Business took first place in the 2020 Developers’ Den Case Competition on March 6, edging out 11 other teams from top-rated graduate real estate programs from across Canada and the U.S.
March 11, 2020
Law and Disorder, a symposium on Saturday, March 14 to be presented by Osgoode Hall Law School’s Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security in honour of its founding director, the late Professor Margaret Beare, will discuss the challenges of policing and governance in a globalizing world.
March 11, 2020
The York Science Communicator in Residence program, based in the Faculty of Science, is once again open for applications for its fourth year of the program. The deadline to apply is April 20.
March 11, 2020
A talk on the intersection of big data and childhood will be the focus of the 2020 Alexander F. Chamberlain Lecture on March 17, when the Children, Childhood and Youth Program at York University presents guest speaker Valerie Steeves.
March 10, 2020
The Regent Park Film Festival’s Home Made Visible project, in partnership with York University Libraries and Charles Street Video, was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation. The award was presented on Feb. 20.
March 10, 2020
A one-day workshop that brings together Turkish scholars to engage in a critical and in-depth discussion on the current authoritarian drive in Turkey will take place March 19 at York University’s Keele Campus.
March 10, 2020
A panel of highly distinguished speakers came together on March 4 to discuss and debate the question of whether there should be limits to freedom of speech at universities. The event was co-sponsored by the Office of the Head of McLaughlin College and the York Collegium for Practical Ethics.
