Two York University community members – Professor Satinder Kaur Brar and Faculty of Education PhD candidate Anna Pearson – have been recognized with a 2024 Minister’s Award of Excellence from Ontario’s Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
The Faculty of Education is proud to honour two exceptional faculty members whose contributions to research and graduate education continue to shape our community in profound ways.
Katrina Cain-Griffin was not expecting to find deep connections to the work of James Baldwin, an African American writer and civil rights activist, during a graduate seminar led by Professor Emeritus Warren Crichlow.
In a remarkable recognition of his lifelong commitment to sustainability, York University’s Charles Hopkins has earned the esteemed 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
For more than a decade, Professor Stephen Gaetz and the York-based Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH), which he directs, have pushed to create a shift in how to approach modern homelessness. They’ve succeeded.
On February 8th, 2025, Academic Coordinator of the Glendon Bachelor of Education degree (BEd) program, Muriel Péguret, co-organized a dynamic Open Educational Resources (OER) creation workshop, bringing together experienced French as a Second Language (FSL) teachers and first-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) students.
From Canada's lush landscapes to the historic lecture halls of Freiburg, Germany, Sarah Weston's (BEd ’13) academic path embodies the transformative essence of York University's international exchange experience.
Experts from around the globe are gathering in Toronto for Canada’s first national conference on preventing youth homelessness to highlight real-life research and programs that are making a difference. Stephen Gaetz, a professor at York University and president of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, who is one of the conference chairs, talks about the importance […]
When the Governor-General’s staff phoned Don Dippo to inform him that he’d been named to the Order of Canada, the retired University Professor of Education at York University thought someone was pulling his leg.
In the heart of Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood, often misunderstood and overshadowed by negative stereotypes, York University’s TD Community Engagement Centre (CEC) is empowering students and fostering meaningful connections.