York University’s Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion is kick-starting the Fall 2024 term by offering staff, faculty and students a four-workshop series that teaches participants how to be more mindful of and challenge forms of ableism.
Through initiatives like the recent Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference, Professor Janine Marchessault is helping facilitate alliances between institutional and community-led media archives from around the world.
The latest iteration of the annual report details the analysis of equity-identified groups at York University from the period of Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2023.
The York community is invited to read the third Annual Report on Black Inclusion, which features a look at what progress has been made on 86 calls to action aimed at shifting institutional culture towards the inclusion and affirmation of Black lives and experiences.
Through the Advancing YU program, Black and/or women undergraduate students have the opportunity to be paired with alumni mentors to explore their personal and professional potential.
Professor Nadia Hasan has published a study that documents the significant impact Quebec’s Bill 21 has had on Muslim women in the province.
Professor Zulfikar Hirji is looking to bring attention to the often understudied creative works of artists from the vast Indian Ocean region.
At York University’s June 20 convocation ceremony, an honorary degree was presented to Arnold Auguste, president and publisher of the newspaper Share, which has been serving the Greater Toronto Area’s Black and Caribbean communities since 1978.
Reeta Roy, president and CEO of the Mastercard Foundation, urged graduands to embrace the full transformational power of education.
York University’s efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has resulted in it being among the top 35 universities in the world, according to the prestigious 2024 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.