March 28, 2025
The final Wednesday members’ drop-in this term is on April 9 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm, on the topic of “York’s Upcoming Presidential Search”.
The Zoom link is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86781192358?pwd=6V5B5DITARrYREmAxnRWR2KsFaqR9C.1
March 28, 2025
The spring YUFA Annual General Meeting will be on Wednesday, April 23 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm. Members can register now using THIS LINK to allow membership status to be quickly confirmed at the start of the meeting.
March 28, 2025
Universities are in crisis in Canada and around the globe. They face challenges in governance, neoliberal and austerity politics, attacks on supposed “woke” pedagogy, and severe under-funding. This roundtable brings together academics from Canada, the USA and the UK who have all been working and writing on these issues, to...
March 28, 2025
The next meeting of the YUFA Stewards’ Council is Friday, April 4 from 10:30am to 12:30pm.
The Agenda for the meeting as well as the zoom link can be found here.
Stewards’ Council meetings are open to all YUFA members.
March 28, 2025
YUFA is asking all members to come out to defend the key values of our university, particularly in light of the program suspensions by the administration. Please attend the community information sessions (Town Halls) that the administration has scheduled to express your views and concerns. Consider attending in person...
March 28, 2025
At its meeting on March 27, the York University Senate approved a motion to refer the policy framework for program enrollment suspensions back to its Academic Policy, Planning and Research Committee (APPRC) for further revision, taking into account points made during the Senate discussion. APPRC next meets on April 3.
March 28, 2025
On Monday, March 31, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm Prof. Sheila Embleton will speak on “A Brief Summary of Laurentian University’s Recent Financial and Governance History”. The link is: https://yorku.zoom.us/j/92175449683?pwd=aaSDaes2iS9vN9rLPGKuT7Pc1YoJoC.1
March 27, 2025
The Transgender Fund is an entitlement for YUFA members to support trans health and related services. It was gained during bargaining in 2015-16 and currently appears as Article 26.11 in the Collective Agreement. Beginning May 1, 2024, the fund has a value of $60,000 per annum, and any remaining funds...
March 27, 2025
The YUFA Executive Committee has endorsed the following motion regarding the ongoing suspension of Professor Lesley Wood. “The Department of Sociology demands the immediate and full reinstatement of our colleague, Professor Lesley Wood, who has been indefinitely suspended by the York University administration since November 23, 2023. This motion reaffirms...
March 27, 2025
Supported by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), a group of YUFA members filed an application for judicial review of the decisions to suspend admission to 19 programs. YUFA will keep members informed as the application is considered by the court. A copy of the application is here. The judicial review application is...