Gaming Offers Deeper Understanding of Anishinaabe Language and Culture

Students by the dozens have joined the fight to protect Anishinaabemowin (the Ojibwe language) from the Linguicidals as part of Maya Chacaby’s Glendon Campus language classes. How could any student, brought up in a world that takes gaming culture and activities for granted, resist this informal course description: “Once, Anishinaabe lived in beautiful homelands, connected to […]

Glendon Students Turn Their Backyards into Labs

Glendon Campus biology students need to learn fieldwork techniques, pandemic, or no pandemic, so Laura McKinnon decided to send them out into their backyards to practice. Usually, McKinnon teaches this mandatory course, “Ecological Monitoring in an Urban Environment,” as a 12-day intensive course as part of the Ontario Universities Program in Field Biology. Students normally band birds, […]

Who Are Ontario’s Green Drivers and How Can We Incentivize More of Them?

New research shows that drivers of electric vehicles represent one per cent of new car owners – this, ten years after a provincial push to encourage green driving. One researcher learns more about these consumers and advocates gaining additional info on them to better tailor the strategy. In 2010, the Province of Ontario launched an […]

Glendon Graduate Celebrates Winning Inaugural McCall MacBain Scholarship

At the end of a rigorous six-month scholarship application process, including two rounds of interviews, Glendon graduate and future positive changemaker Amanda Sears (BA '20) joined a life-changing Zoom call. On the call, Sears learned she was among 20 Canadians chosen as inaugural McCall MacBain Scholars, recipients of the country’s first comprehensive leadership-based scholarship that supports master’s […]

Exploring the European Union through a Dutch Lens

“Most courses about the European Union (EU) focus on Brussels and tend to miss the member states,” said Professor Willem Maas, but that’s not the case for his Glendon summer course, "The Netherlands and Europeanization." The summer seminar course offers an in-depth look at the political, social and economic transformations the EU has wrought and the […]

Glendon's community-based initiatives improve language skills while breaking isolation

To lessen the social isolation caused by the pandemic, faculty and staff at York University’s Glendon Campus have sought ways to build connections among students and the community. Much of this work has been done remotely and Glendon has some notable successes. Thanks to the efforts of Sabrina Sirois, an experiential education coordinator at Glendon, and Usha […]