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Reminder of the March 5 Forum: York United for Equity and Against Austerity

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...

Summary of Emergency Drop-in meeting on February 20

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...

Public forum on York United Against Austerity: We Need a Better York! – March 5th

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...

Ontario election: mobilizing voters to support education priorities

The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) has developed an advocacy platform guide for the upcoming provincial election. The key priorities are: Increase total provincial university funding by 11.75 percent annually for a five-year period to bring Ontario close to the Canadian average in per-domestic student funding. Boost the...

Regular members’ drop-in meeting, Wed Feb 26, noon -- Markham campus: How is it going?

The next regular YUFA members’ drop-in meeting is Wednesday, February 26th, on the topic of “Markham campus:  how is it going?”  All members are welcome. The meetings are held over Zoom from 12:00pm to 1:00pm. The Zoom link for all meetings is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86781192358pwd=6V5B5DITARrYREmAxnRWR2KsFaqR9C.1 Future dates and topics for members’ drop-in...

SRCs: three more colleagues’ contracts were not renewed

Special Renewable Contract faculty:  6 renewed, 3 more colleagues’ contracts were discontinued as of Feb 1. The SRC programme was intended as a limited measure to counter the widespread casualization of academic labour, guaranteeing some long-standing sessional employees a measure of job security before retirement.  Currently, SRCs work in various corners of...

SPECIAL EMERGENCY MEMBERS’ DROP-IN MEETING: Enrollment suspensions

There will be a SPECIAL EMERGENCY MEMBERS DROP-IN MEETING on the outrageous enrollment suspensions which have been announced for 20 programs at Keele and Glendon -- Thurs Feb 19 at noon:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81085773000?pwd=MeH9IOCBRtfQU9PTfNibdiQaH0NREE.1  The programs now facing enrolment suspensions for fall 2025, as of Feb 18, are: At Glendon: Sociology Global...