York University Graduate Students' Association (YUGSA)

06/08/2023

CUPE 3903 is hosting a series of Summer Sessions for all members! Whether you want to dip your toes into labour organizing, share your vast experience, or connect with new and old friends, this is the space for you! These sessions, which will alternate between in person and remote format, will prioritize conversation, brainstorming, and exchange of ideas. Everyone has something to contribute!

The sessions will be arranged around three themes: Organizing Tactics (June), Growing Solidarity (July), and Building Power (August). While the sessions are meant to build into each other, they are also self-contained. If you can only attend a few, we’d love to see you there!

The first session is next week!
'Organizing: What Is It?' is Wednesday June 14th at 11am at Keele Campus. Register here: https://buff.ly/3MYtrQs

Theme One- Organizing Tactics
June 14th: Organizing: What Is It? (in person)
June 21st: Making Online Organizing Work (online)
June 28th: Direct Action Gets the Goods (in person)

All sessions are currently scheduled for 11am-2pm. All in-person sessions will take place in the First Student Centre room 325, on Keele Campus. For the complete list of sessions and more information please click here: https://buff.ly/3Cf7CqW

03/20/2023

The Faculty of Education presents the final speaker for the Empowering Others online lecture series! Dr. Sava Saheli Singh (she/her) will be sharing insights on navigating the academy as an immigrant.

Dr. Sava Saheli Singh is Assistant Professor of Digital Futures with the Faculty of Education at York University. As an interdisciplinary scholar and filmmaker working at the nexus of education, technology, surveillance, speculative futures, and intersectional marginality, sava has a strong commitment to community-based public scholarship. She co-produced the award-winning Screening Surveillance series of four short films, a public education and knowledge translation project that calls attention to the potential human consequences of big data surveillance.

This event is cost-free. Click here to register: https://empowering-others-lecture-series.eventbrite.ca/

When? Monday, March 27, 11AM-12PM EST

We are excited to present the final speaker for the Empowering Others online lecture series! Dr. sava saheli singh (she/her) will be sharing insights on navigating the academy as an immigrant.

Dr. sava saheli singh is Assistant Professor of Digital Futures with the Faculty of Education at York University. As an interdisciplinary scholar and filmmaker working at the nexus of education, technology, surveillance, speculative futures, and intersectional marginality, sava has a strong commitment to community-based public scholarship. She co-produced the award-winning Screening Surveillance series of four short films, a public education and knowledge translation project that calls attention to the potential human consequences of big data surveillance.

This event is cost-free. Click here to register: https://empowering-others-lecture-series.eventbrite.ca/

When? Monday, March 27, 11AM-12PM EST

02/13/2023

Limited seats available so register at the link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-futures-film-screening-discussion-tickets-541423651717

12/21/2022

We are hiring!!
If you're interested in applying for a contract positionas our Chief Returning officer (CRO) Submit aresume in PDF format including a brief statement toYUGSA's Hiring Committee at [email protected] byJanuary 8, 2023 at 11:59 PM (EST).

11/04/2022

Standing in solidarity with Education workers! Join an education picket line near you Today.
In Toronto, picket lines will be in place at Queen’s Park from 8 am to 3:30 pm.
If you are outside of Toronto go to https://cupe.on.ca/dontbeabully/ to find a picket line near you.

10/25/2022

Join us this Halloween at the YUGSA graduate Halloween get-together and BBQ!

There will be music, food for everyone, AND a Halloween make-up station!

Please see the event poster below, and register for the event in advance:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/440480628417

Hope to see you all there!

10/11/2022

YCAR Awards
Deadline: 24 October 2022

- The Nirvan Bhavan Graduate Fellowship for Research on India and the Indian Diaspora (One award, value: $6,500)
- Dr Sangdeok Woo and Mrs. Kwisoon Lim Woo Memorial Graduate Award (One award, value: $12,500)
- Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award (Number of awards and value: Based on applications submitted)
- Vivienne Poy Hakka Graduate Research Award (One award, value: $5,000)

For details on these and other awards/funding opportunities, please visit:
https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research-fellowships-awards/

06/18/2022

We are hiring a handbook coordinator! If you are interested read through the details below and apply at [email protected]

10/05/2021

Invitation to the York community: students, staff and faculty:

YU Fossil Free, with the support of the York Federation of Students and the Environmental and Urban Change Students' Association, is hosting a Divestment 101 webinar to explain what fossil fuel divestment is, why it is important, and how York University students, staff and faculty can get involved.

YU Fossil Free is a student and faculty-led movement calling on York University to divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in a just, climate-safe future through transparent, sustainable investment practices. We believe this is urgent and necessary if the university is to be consistent with its commitments to social, fiscal, and environmental sustainability announced in the 2020-2025 University Academic Plan. We strive to educate the York University community on the importance of divesting from fossil fuels and reinvesting in a just, climate-safe future.

This webinar is open to everybody, and will be an engaging, interactive session with a Q&A panel at the end of the short presentations.

Time: Wednesday, October 6, starting at 4:00 pm ET.
Location: Online by Zoom

Register here:

YU Fossil Free, with the support of the York Federation of Students and the Environmental and Urban Change Students' Association, is hosting a Divestment 101 session to explain what fossil fuel divestment is, why it is important, and how York University students can get involved. This session is ope...

09/27/2021

Consider attending 1492 Land Back Lane's Unity JAM Concert on September 30th, 3pm at Dufferin Grove Park

09/24/2021

Do you have questions about returning to in-campus learning? Join our joint unions townhall on Sep 29th, 7pm to ask questions, voice your health and safety concerns, and engage with other concerned students.

Hosted by: York Federation of Students (YFS), York University Graduate Students’ Association (YUGSA), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE Local 3903), York University Faculty Association (YUFA)

YOU MUST REGISTER BELOW WITH A YORK UNIVERSITY EMAIL ADDRESS:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdeCgrjkjG9NwZwsnFSKiVdRltxlncKzy