From York U to making a national impact, alumna Pamela Farrell (BEd '07) is now an assistant professor at the University of Calgary and the founder of GROW, Canada's first community food literacy centre in Niagara Falls.
Charles A. Hopkins, an internationally recognized pioneer in education for sustainable development and the inaugural holder of the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education Towards Sustainability at York University, has been named a Member of the Order of Canada.
Emily Burgis, a visiting professor in the Faculty of Education, is one of four educators across Canada to earn the Rita L. Irwin Award for her leadership in art pedagogy.
How can young people learn from their experiences and reshape who they are in a digital world that never forgets?–That question will guide York University education scholar Mario Di Paolantonio’s research as a York Massey Fellow at the University of Toronto for the 2025-26 academic year.
Written by Alex Huls (YFile July 25, 2025) It all began with one day. In 2022, Black high school students from the York Region District School Board (YRDSB) were invited by York University’s Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora to the Keele Campus to take part in “A Day at York.” The event was designed […]
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.
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.
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.