- This article is about the Canadian university. For the British university, see University of York.
York University is a large comprehensive university, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's second largest university.
© York University
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| Motto: Tentanda via (Latin: The way must be tried) |
| Founded |
1959 |
| School type |
Public |
| President |
Lorna Marsden |
| Location |
Toronto, Ontario |
| Enrollment |
43,635 undergrad, 3,339 grad |
| Campus surroundings |
Urban, suburban |
| Campus size |
650 acres (2.6 km²) |
| Sports teams |
Lions, Yeomen |
| Mascot |
Lion |
History
 The York University Common In 1965, York moved into its permanent home on the Keele campus.
Academics
York's Faculty of Arts is the largest in Canada. Its Faculty of Education offers its students more teaching experience than any other education program in Ontario. Its renowned Faculty of Environmental Studies offers one of the best individualized, interdisciplinary masters programs in the world. Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada's largest, and one of the oldest, is among the most respected. The Schulich School of Business is ranked among the top business schools in the world. As well, York is involved in many space projects and has a pair of small telescopes on campus.
Athletics
The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the York Lions. The team was formerly known as the "York Yeomen" and "York Yeowomen", but the name was changed in 2003 to be more gender-neutral.
Campuses
Keele Campus, York's main campus, is located in North York and most of the university's faculties reside here.
York also has a bilingual liberal arts campus, Glendon College. Glendon is the only place in Southern Ontario that offers university courses in both French and English.
The Schulich School of Business also has a downtown Toronto campus called the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre.
Students
York University advertises itself as providing a progressive contemporary education in an urban setting. York is Canada's third-largest university, with over 40,000 students enrolled. Most students come from the Greater Toronto Area, as well as many international students and across Canada.
Colleges
York has 9 undergraduate residential colleges:
- Atkinson - named after Toronto Star founding publisher Jospeh E Atkinson
- Bethune - named after Dr. Norman Bethune
- Calumet
- Founders
- Glendon
- McLaughlin
- Stong
- Vanier - named after Governor General Georges Vanier
- Winters - named after former federal Liberal MP Robert W Winters
Seneca@York
York also shares the Keele Campus with Seneca College, Seneca@York (http://www.senecac.on.ca/home/campuses/yorku.html), and offers number of joint programs to allow graduates to benefit from both post-secondary institutions:
- School of Communication Arts
- Computer Studies
- Biological Science and Applied Chemistry
- Corporate and Technical Communications
Faculties
- Arts
- Atkinson, Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
- Education
- Environmental Studies
- Fine Arts
- Glendon College
- Graduate Studies
- Osgoode Hall Law School
- Schulich School of Business
- Science and Engineering
Former Presidents
- Murray G Ross 1959-1970
- David Slater 1970-1973
- H. Ian Macdonald 1973-1984
- Harry W. Arthurs 1985-1992
- Susan Mann 1993-1997
Noted alumni
Noted faculty
- Murray G. Ross - founding president, U of T law professor
- Hédi Bouraoui - writer, professor of French and English literature
- Christopher Dewdney - writer, professor of English literature
- Robert W. Cox - political scientist, internationally influential as founder of neo-gramscianism
- David Noble - historian of technology
- Alan Young - noted law professer
- Andreas Papandreou - Greek prime minister, economics professor 1969-1974
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