Timeline Category: Students

  • International Student Centre created

  • Early roots of Indigenous Student Association

    In her history of York, Gill Teiman noted that when storyteller and author Lenore Keeshig-Tobias was a creative writing student at York, she co-founded the first Indigenous student association; by 1999 it had evolved into the First Nations and Aboriginal Students Association and is now known as the Indigenous Students Association (ISAY).

  • Formation of the York University Homophile Association (YUHA); becomes Gay Alliance at York in 1975

    YUHA was the second gay student organization in Canada, formed a year after the University of Toronto Homophile Association. From the first YUHA newsletter, published in November 1970: In the beginning… Encouraged by the success of the U. of T. Homophile Association (founded Oct. 69), a group of York students believed that this year the…

  • Classes begin at Atkinson College

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

  • Grant received to create the Student Counselling Service

    In a 1970 report, York identified itself as offering “the most comprehensive service in North America”; by 1979 and called the Counselling & Development Centre, the CDC was serving employees as well as students, offering a range of programming and services, including the Centre for Special Services for Handicapped Students (first in Canada).