The York University Alumni Board recognized four distinguished York students with 2022 Alumni Awards and Scholarships for their academic excellence and leadership. Tiana Putric, a School of Administrative Studies graduate, was among those honoured. Alumni Golden GRADitude Award The Alumni Golden GRADitude Award recognizes graduating students who leave York University a better place thanks to […]
Two professors of York University’s School of Administrative Studies (SAS), Ali Asgary and Adriano O. Solis, along with Jalal Possik, until recently a postdoctoral research associate at SAS, and a team of co-researchers based in Canada and France, have co-authored a paper entitled “An Agent-Based Modeling and Virtual Reality Application Using Distributed Simulation: Case of […]
SAS Assistant Professor David Weitzner wrote an article that was published in The Conversation, titled, “Push for AI innovation can create dangerous products”, where he discussed that although AI technology can give companies an edge over competitors, at times flawed products enter the market. “If AI is central to our future, we need to pay […]
Professor Kenneth James McBey passed away on June 22 at the age of 65. McBey was a faculty member at York University since 1989, first in the School of Administrative Studies, and later cross-appointed as a founding member of the School of Human Resource Management. He taught courses in human resources management, organizational behaviour, pedagogy and emergency […]
Professor Richard Leblanc was recently featured in multiple news stories discussing the July 8 Rogers outage. In the Toronto Star, Leblanc suggested companies such as Rogers be more independently audited for their internal control to minimize the possibility of an outage. In CP24, Leblanc said the situation may have been worse for the entire countray […]
Welcome (back)! The School of Administrative Studies is excited to welcome you (back) for the 2022-2023 Fall/Winter academic year! We hope you take advantage of the diverse range of learning opportunities that we offer. Whether you are starting your first term in September, or returning to continue or complete your studies – it is important […]
Three undergraduate students at York University have earned the Governor General’s Silver Medal, an award that recognizes the outstanding scholastic achievements of undergraduate students in Canada. Receiving the medals are changemakers Samuel Isaac Dreyzin (SAS BCom student), Robert Alexander Khatib and Rosie Giannone. Recipients are selected based on their academic averages. “It is a special […]
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) awarded funding to Akolisa Ufodike and Andrea Emberly for the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative to fund community-led research partnerships grounded in the lived experience of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups that analyze the causes of systemic racism and discrimination. The initiative encourages intersectionality – a term coined by African-American […]
SAS Professor Richard Leblanc was recently interviewed in a BNN Bloomberg video titled, “There’s an empirical relationship between share ownership and effective governance”. In the report, LeBlanc, an expert in law, ethics and governance, delves into how when board members have direct ownership in company shares, it gives confidence in the business. Watch the full […]
Tiana Putric, a fourth-year Disaster & Emergency Management student in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) has been awarded the Fulbright Canada Killam Fellowship, a bi-national exchange for exceptional undergraduate students in Canada and the United States. Putric is one of 16 Canadian students chosen to participate in the prestigious program that aims to […]