Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and remote learning, Lily Cho, associate dean of Global and Community Engagement in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has been working with the LA&PS International Student Success team to design a number of creative approaches to supporting the Faculty’s international students during this atypical academic year.
Read moreFollowing an extensive national and international search, which attracted a number of outstanding candidates, the search committee recommended the appointment of Professor Marco Fiola to the position of Principal. Professor Fiola has accepted an invitation to take up a 5.5-year term as principal, commencing January 1, 2021.
Read moreThe 2020-2025 Strategic Mandate Agreements (SMA3) between Ontario’s Ministry of Colleges and Universities and the province’s universities have been finalized. The SMA3 is a key component of the Ontario government’s accountability framework.
Read moreYork University’s Senate Executive Committee recently approved the extension of the Principles to Guide Fall/Winter Graduate and Undergraduate Course Planning to the Summer 2021 term. This means that the same approach to course delivery approved for the upcoming winter term will also apply to the summer 2021 term.
Read moreSchool of Public Policy and Administration Professor Thomas Klassen from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies worked with Professor Sophia Lee at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea, to provide undergraduate students in their respective classes with a unique international learning opportunity.
Read moreWelcome to the November 2020 edition of ‘Innovatus,’ a special issue of YFile devoted to teaching and learning innovation at York University. It offers compelling and accessible feature-length stories about York University’s commitment to excellence in teaching, learning, internationalization and the student experience.
Read moreOne of York University’s hallowed traditions, the Faculty of Education Summer Institute (FESI), may have bowed to COVID-19 in terms of format, but it is unbowed in terms of mission and content. For 2020-21, the institute has morphed into a series of five free webinars titled Up Close and Personal: Conversations on Anti-Oppression.
Read moreStephen Gaetz, the York University Research Chair in Homelessness and Research Impact and a professor in the Faculty of Education, is using his excellent research and communications skills and grant-writing ability to attack the challenges within youth homelessness, which need broad solutions and a meeting of many perspectives.
Read moreRachel Silver, an assistant professor of education at York, with the help of a team of her colleagues in both Toronto and Dadaab, has created a virtual colloquium series, Reciprocal Learning in Times of Crisis, for the Faculty’s Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) program. The series considers the issues arising from the confluence of education, the COVID-19 pandemic and new waves of resistance to anti-Black racism.
Read moreLucy Angus and Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, assistant professors new to York and the Faculty of Education, have created a lecture series entitled
Disrupting Early Childhood: Inheritance, Pedagogy, Curriculum to explore new ideas about early childhood education (ECE) and create a space to bring together the innovative research conversations that are changing the field of ECE.