Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Top Stories
- Faculty launches new Five-Year Strategic Plan (2023 – 2027) - Dean Robert Savage is delighted to announce the launch of the Faculty of Education’s new Five-Year Strategic Plan (2023-2027). The plan, which was ratified in December, sets the vision and direction of the Faculty for the coming years and is the result of the Faculty’s sustained collective activity and core shared social justice values and goals of equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization. Learn more
- Congress 2023 - The Faculty of Education’s Congress Working Group is pleased to present four Faculty-led events for Congress 2023. Learn more and register. In addition to these four events, faculty members and graduate students will also be presenting a number of sessions. Learn more
- Call for volunteers for Congress 2023 - We are looking for people who are interested in contributing to making this a great experience for all CSSE attendees. If you are available to contribute at least 2 conference days (for 4-hour blocks) you could join in on this great experience.
As a volunteer you will:
Contribute to this important conference
Add to your professional knowledge
Meet new people from around Canada
Be eligible to attend CSSE sessions for free
Get a volunteer T-shirt
Receive a personalized letter indicating your volunteer contribution to CSSE
To apply to volunteer please click here. For specific questions please email Aisha Patel at: aispat@yorku.ca
- BA Educational Studies students produce educational videos on sustainability - Bachelor of Arts Educational Studies program students on the required practicum capstone course, joined forces with the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability to create educational videos covering current global education themes. Read more
- Get to know our faculty: Rachel Silver - This month’s ‘Get to know our faculty’ profile features assistant professor Rachel Silver whose interdisciplinary research draws insight from critical development studies; refugee and forced migration studies; and gender, feminist and women’s studies. Learn more
- Family creates award to honour a teacher who transformed lives - For Savitri Ahuja, educating others was much more than a personal passion and rewarding career. Over the many decades she practiced in her birth country of India and adopted country of Canada, teaching was a compassionate act of service to humanity, her way to empower others to improve their circumstances and achieve their dreams. Read story
- Homelessness Learning Hub continues improving, lives, training - Four years after its launch, the Homelessness Learning Hub (HLHub) is evolving to continue becoming an essential resource across Canada to the homeless-serving sector. Read more
- York staff, faculty recognised for positive change in accessibility - What does accessibility look like in the classroom? When this question was posed to course director Lorin Schwarz, he answered “inclusion plus access.” Read story
- York UNESCO Chair Newsletter May 2023 – The May 2023 issue of the York UNESCO Chair Newsletter is now available. Read issue
Program Office Updates
Academic Programs Office
- On April 26th the Office of Academic Programs hosted a luncheon to celebrate and thank outgoing seconded Faculty colleagues who will be transitioning back to their respective school boards this September.
Pictured:
Top row: Karen Krasny (Associate Dean, Academic Programs), Lindsay LaMorre (Associate Director, Experiential Education), Monica Diaz Greco (secondee), Jennifer McColl (secondee), Celia Popovic (Undergraduate Program Director, Academic Programs)
Bottom row: Terry Lawrence (secondee), Farah Rahemtula (secondee), Dian Baker (secondee), Paul Aniceto (secondee)
Student Services Office
- The Undergraduate Student Services team advised new Year 1 BEd students who will be starting the program this coming August. The team spent two hours twice a day from May 1st to the May 12th advising just over 640 students. We have some very excited students starting with us
- Over the next month we will see the first year BA Educational Studies students starting their YU Start enrolment which is the New Student Transition Program designed to support the student’s way into and through their first year at York University. Through this transitional program, students will enroll in courses, connect with fellow classmates, student leaders, student services staff and become more familiar with campus life, student support systems and resources available. We have hired a York student, Haydn Bartha to support students’ and answer their questions as they navigate through YU Start and get ready for September. Haydn will be offering campus tours starting mid-June for new students wishing to see the campus including our newly renovated building
Graduate Program Office
- Congratulations to the York Graduate Students in Education (YGSE) for hosting an engaging 19th annual Graduate student conference in Education entitled "Other worlds, Any ways”
- Congratulations to the following Graduate Program in Education Internal Awards Recipients for 2022-2023
Research Office
Research Events:
- Thank you to the many faculty members and graduate students who participated in the Workshop Series, Thinking Together about Processes and Problems in Research and Scholarship. Thank you especially to the session leaders: Jen Gilbert, Rachel Silver, Cristina Delgado Vintimilla, Qiang Zha, Carl James, Gillian Parekh, and Sue Winton
Congress 2023:
- A full program of our four Faculty-led events has been launched as a webpage (https://www.yorku.ca/edu/congress-2023/) and is posted on the Faculty of Education website under quick links. Thank you to the IT and Communications and Marketing teams for their support in developing this resource
- Thank you to Congress Working Group members: Warren Crichlow, Nombuso Dlamini, Korina Jocson, Connie Mayer, Gillian Parekh, Myrtle Sodhi, and Vathushan Jegathasan. Thank you to Pam Toulouse, Rebecca Beaulne-Steubing, and Marianne Groat for your leadership of the Wülhéelam event within the program
Upcoming Grant Opportunities:
- Spencer Foundation Racial Equity Research Grants (Agency Intent to apply: May 16, 2023; Full proposal due: June 14, 2023)
- SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants (Agency deadline: June 15, 2023)
- 2024 Dorothy Killam Research Fellowships Competition (Agency deadline: June 16, 2023)
- Funding for Indigenous Scholarly Events and Outreach Activities (Internal deadline: July 1, 2023)
- Funding for Scholarly Events and Outreach Activities (Internal deadline: July 1, 2023)
- SSHRC Connection Grants (Agency deadline: August 1, 2023)
- SSHRC Connection Grants: Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative (Agency deadline: August 1, 2023)
- SSHRC Exchange – Conference Grant (Internal deadline: August 1, 2023)
Please reach out to the OADR at research@edu.yorku.ca if you have any questions or would like support!
Professional Learning Office
- Summer 2023 AQ session – Registration is now open for summer 2023 Additional Qualification (AQ) courses. Registrants can choose from 2 sessions–July, August or both!
- July session: July 5 – July 31
- August session: August 8 – August 31
Learn more
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Office
- Professor Connie Mayer has been appointed as a Senior Associate Editor of the American Annals of the Deaf - The Annals was first published in 1847 and is the oldest English-language journal dealing with deafness and the education of DHH persons. Explore publication
New Publications
- Assistant professor Vidya Shah & co-author Jeewan Chanicka have a new article titled “Brown Identities, Complicities and Complexities: Towards Black-Brown Solidarities” in the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry. Vol. 10 No. 1
- Dean Robert Savage and co-authors Rauno Parrila, Tomohiro Inoue, Kristy Dunn and George Gergiou have a new article titled “Connecting teachers’ language knowledge, perceived ability and instructional practices to Grade 1 students’ literacy outcomes” in the Journal of Reading and Writing.
- Associate professor Qiang Zha and co-authors Wenqin Shen and Chao Liu have a new paper titled “From rejection to acceptance: the institutionalization of adopting university ranking outcomes as policy and strategic tools in China since the 1980s” in Policy Reviews in Higher Education
- Associate professor Qiang Zha and co-authors Shuangmiao Han and Jing Xie have a new article titled “Understanding Chinese Universities’ Strategic Response to the “Double First-class” Policy and the Potential Outcome on Higher Education Diversity: An Exploratory Study” in Studies in Higher Education.
In Case You Missed It...
- On April 18th the Toronto Catholic District School Board’s Equity, Diversity, Indigenous Education & Community Relations department hosted a virtual panel discussion event with Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, Carl James titled “Reimagining Schooling and Learning for Black Students: Where do we go from here?”. Watch video
In the Media
- ‘The optics are terrible’: Toronto police criticized over senior officer’s role as head of internal discipline - Carl James, the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora at York University, weighs in on the appointment of a senior officer to lead internal investigations at Toronto Police Services despite a career that includes the on-duty shooting deaths of two Black men. “Unless that culture shifts and different questions, different programs and different practices are taken up … we’re going to have the same reproduction over and over again,” said James. Read article in the March 2 issue of the Toronto Star.
News from the York Community
- York launches new Decolonizing, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy - The DEDI Strategy provides a lens on the University’s past, present and future, allowing it to focus clearly on the efforts and resources needed to drive positive change. Explore the strategy
- Join the May 17 Fireside Chat to learn about York’s DEDI Strategy - Participate in the Fireside Chat on the Decolonizing, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI) Strategy to learn more about how to engage in DEDI work at York University. Register for the event
Events
Dean Robert Savage is pleased to invite you to the Faculty of Educations 50th Anniversary Celebration taking place on June 7, 2023 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at the Second Student Centre, 2nd Floor, York University (Keele Campus). Light refreshments will be served and paid parking is available at the Atkinson Lot: Parking Map.
RSVP here by Friday May 26, 2023 to confirm your attendance. We look forward to seeing you there!
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