Timeline Category: Organizational Development
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From AbleYorkU Facebook page: Able York is a York University student organization that is committed to creating and maintaining a barrier-free society in the form of disability awareness, accessibility, inclusion, equity, equality, accountability, legal activism and mobilization. […] Since its inception, Able York has become an integral part of the York community by participating on…
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The first interdisciplinary Jewish Studies centre in Canada. This Centre marked Canada’s first interdisciplinary hub for Jewish Studies, supporting both graduate and undergraduate education, including the BA in Jewish Studies, a Graduate Diploma, as well as the Jewish Teacher Education Program, and was instrumental in embedding Jewish Studies into York’s academic offerings.
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Employment Equity at York is now guided by the EDI Program Manager in the Division of Equity, People & Culture.
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SHEACC merged for a time with the Centre for Race and Ethnic Relations (CRER) under the auspices of the Centre for Human Rights and Equity, and was the precursor to the Centre for Sexual Violence Response, Support, & Education, which opened in 2018.
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Paving the way to York’s leadership in critical women’s, gender, and sexuality scholarship. Though Women’s Studies courses had been offered at York since 1972, Women’s Studies was formalized as a program in 1983. The graduate program, the first Women’s Studies program in Canada, was established in 1992. The School of Women’s Studies was officially founded…
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Canada’s first research centre focused on Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas.
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We at York must give special emphasis to the humanizing of man, freeing him from those pressures which mechanize the mind, which make for routine thinking, which divorce thinking and feeling, which permit custom to dominate intelligence, which freeze awareness of the human spirit and its possibilities. We must seek to develop in our students…