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On April 30, 2020, York University hosted a Virtual Town Hall for students to ask senior leadership about the university’s response to COVID-19. During this Town Hall, Dean of Faculty of Graduate Studies, Thomas Loebel, indicated that while the university is aware that this pandemic has caused various disruptions to graduate student academic progress and […]

We appreciate that York University’s senior administration hosted a virtual town hall yesterday to answer urgent questions from the York community, but we are greatly disappointed in their responses to questions about graduate student funding. Senior University administration said that graduate students should work with supervisors to discuss their program completion in light of the […]

UPDATE: We are sorry, due to the overwhelming number of applications we will have to temporarily suspend new applications until we can make more money available for this fund. We will inform our membership through our website, social media, and listservs once the application portal is reopened. Deadline: First-come, First Serve until funds last. The […]

See the Letter in PDF here To President Lenton, Dated: March 17, 2020 Re: Open Letter about York Apartments/Residence We are writing to address an immediate issue that is the reason for distress for several students who are campus residents at York University. Referring to the email copied below (our highlights), we do not understand why […]

The Senate Executive has made a number of decisions in the past week with regard to course completion and exams. Beginning on Monday, March 16 all York University classes will move to online formats. No classes will be held in-person. In addition, all in-person exams for the Winter term are cancelled during the formal winter exam […]

Following the announcement that the provincial government has cancelled all public schools across the province until April 5, the YUGSA Executive Committee has moved to indefinitely close our office as of Monday, March 16. The province’s announcement comes in the wake of the World Health Organization decision to classify the Coronavirus, COVID-19, as a pandemic. Our […]