Timeline Category: Access

  • Bridging Program for Women created

    One of the first university-level initiatives in Canada designed specifically to help women who had faced barriers to education gain access to university study; the Bridging Program for Women continues to be offered through the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. Making the Impossible, Possible: The Bridging Program for Women at York University.

  • Classes begin at Atkinson College

    Canada’s first major university college dedicated to serving part-time adult learners.