March 21, 2025
Supported by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), a group of YUFA members have filed an application for judicial review of the decisions to suspend admission to 19 programs. The application states, in part, that the decisions were unlawful, unreasonable, and without or in excess of any statutory discretion or authority. Moreover, the...
March 21, 2025
More than 200 members attended the YUFA Special General Members Meeting on March 19 to consider a non-confidence motion in the York University President, Provost, and Chair of the Board of Governors. After discussion, the motion was overwhelmingly approved. Many members were not able to attend the SGMM due to teaching and other...
February 28, 2025
On February 25th, in conjunction with other campus groups -- the YUFA Indigenous Caucus, CUPE 3903, the Race Equity Caucus, and the Cross-Campus Alliance -- YUFA held a Teach-In against program suspensions. Please see the following photos from this event: Photo One Photo Two Photo Three Photo Four Photo Five...
February 25, 2025
York budget deficits are wildly overestimated in some AI-generated charts and documents which are being circulated. Here are accurate figures, based on York’s audited financial statements as collated by our colleague Dr. Shanker Trivedi from Schulich:
February 25, 2025
If you feel like everything on campus is being dismantled, you’re not alone. From misallocation of public money to unsafe living and working conditions, to undemocratic policy and program changes, we have lost faith in this administration. We know that the interests and needs of most students, staff, and faculty...
February 25, 2025
In conjunction with other campus groups -- the YUFA Indigenous Caucus, CUPE 3903, the Race Equity Caucus, and the Cross-Campus Alliance -- YUFA is holding a Teach-In against program suspensions at Vari Hall tomorrow, Tuesday Feb 25th, following the Indigenous Studies/Indigenous Caucus Event tomorrow morning (that event starts at 10:30...
February 25, 2025
The York administration appears to have abandoned its vision to provide "a broad sociodemographic of students with access to a high quality education" , its mission to "explore global concerns", "encourage bilingual study", and its committment to "social justice" and "collegial self-governance". If you are seeing York's programs and campus...
February 25, 2025
Colleagues affected by program enrollment suspensions are invited to join a weekly drop-in meeting each Thursday until the end of May, at noon at this link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88685236236?pwd=RSGmfdriSdSMFQb2wp2RjJxoIdyxtd.1
February 25, 2025
Action and mobilization strategies from members’ drop-in meeting on program suspensions, Feb 20, 2025 108 members attended. This is a summary of the ideas members shared in developing YUFA’s push-back against program suspensions at York. The program closures announced in early February make clear that the university’s core values are...
February 19, 2025
If you feel like everything on campus is being dismantled, you’re not alone. From misallocation of public money to unsafe living and working conditions, to undemocratic policy and program changes, we have lost faith in this administration. We know that the interests and needs of most students, staff, and faculty...