By Elaine Smith A French immersion high-school teacher who joined York University’s Glendon College pursued a Globally Networked Learning (GNL) project to help his students build connections and advance their academic journeys. A frequent participant in a global scholars program with his students from elementary and middle schools, teacher Jafar Hussain has long understood the value of students building […]
This year’s Black History Month program will focus on Black Educators and Black Education. Click on the title for each event for more information, and register using the RSVP links. EVENTS The Harriett Tubman Institute: Opening Ceremony Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024Time: 2 PM Location: Resource Centre 314 York Lanes, York University, 4700 Keele St RSVP REDDI […]
The Glendon Research and Innovation office invites undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students to exhibit their individual and group research projects at the Student Research Showcase during the annual Glendon Research Festival which will take place from April 2nd to April 4th, 2024. This call for participation invites proposals in English and French, research presentations can […]
Tools capable of extracting personal data from phones or computers are being used by 13 federal departments and agencies, according to contracts obtained under access to information legislation and shared with Radio-Canada. Radio-Canada has also learned those departments’ use of the tools did not undergo a privacy impact assessment as required by federal government directive. The tools in question […]
Celebrating all the ways in which the Glendon community created positive change in 2023. Two Glendon alumna recognized as YorkU’s Top 30 under 30 Living and Learning in Retirement (LLIR) celebrated their 50th anniversary at Glendon Glendon welcomed 80 representatives from the Congolese community to celebrate Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Denis Mukwege Glendon students […]
Sonya is a fourth-year student in the Honours Trilingual iBSc in Biology at Glendon, but also a disabled and mature student. She is a second-generation Italian-Canadian, a musician, an athlete, a hopeful activist, and an incredibly curious individual, who keeps herself occupied with a wide variety of interests. After graduating from her specialist arts high […]
A panel of experts debate how to best prepare for the profound changes that lie ahead in the North As the region risks becoming the new frontline for confrontation between global powers, the Glendon Global Debates return this month to examine the impact on the economic and social life of the people who call the […]
We are honoured to announce that Susan Pond, Director of the Glendon School of Public & International Affairs, has been awarded as Senior Fellow by NATO SFA COE in recognition of the special relationship developed with the Centre in supporting its strategy and related products for the NATO Alliance and Partners. Senior fellow is an […]
This $700 Michael Drache ‘Big History, Big Ideas’ Prize recognises a student with an outstanding, investigative academic essay or digital project which focuses on the theme(s) of inequality, racism, social activism, LGBTQ activism, climate crisis, indigeneity, or global capitalism. Professor Dr. Jack Cécillon nominated Zipporah Davis paper “The Nk’Mip Winery: From Victims of Colonization to […]
By Elaine Smith Raiman Dilag, director of information technology services (ITS) at York University’s Glendon College, and his team are working to ensure their students have access to the most current technology to enhance their storytelling capabilities. They will make this possible through an Academic Innovation Fund grant that allowed them to create a new eight-week extracurricular […]
