Convocation

1. The online application to graduate in absentia in February 2020 is now open. Apply by October 24, 2019 to make sure your application is processed in time.Since there is no February ceremony, you will automatically be invited to the June convocation ceremony. You will receive an invitation to RSVP for the June ceremony approximately four to six weeks before the June convocation.
2. Please see the following February graduation/convocation information/links.
   • Your status will not be projected anywhere online, and we will only contact you directly if there are any issues with your degree audit. Read this “Graduate in Feb” attachment for additional important details.
   • If you have applied to graduate and have not received an email from us during the audit process, you are all set to attend convocation and must go to the Convocation Website for further information on next steps and how to R.S.V.P.
   • If you are requesting to graduate with a Diploma be sure to follow the steps outlined in the “Graduate in February ” (Here is  the “Convocation Diploma“ form mentioned in the attachment).
   • If you are enrolled in Fall courses: Inform the course director that you have applied to graduate, and that your final grade (this can be an interim grade) will need to be submitted 2 weeks prior to the January FGS deadline in order for you to graduate in February. The sooner you inform the course director, the sooner we can work together on getting your final grade posted on time.
   • October 2019 graduates: If you are not attending convocation and want to pick up/request the mailing of your diploma after October convocation, you can do so at Registrarial Services (W120 Bennett Centre for Student Services).  Please see information on the convocation site prior to picking up (http://convocation.students.yorku.ca/diplomas).

Resources and Updates

1. Graduate Funding Advising Services Appointment Scheduler: available at https://gfa2.gradstudies.yorku.ca/ FGS is happy to introduce a new Graduate Funding Appointment Scheduler. The new webpage will allow students to directly schedule a one-on-one 30-minute meeting with the advisors using an interactive calendar. While GPAs will remain the first point of contact for students, this new site will streamline the process for students who wish to meet with a Graduate Funding Advisor.
2. All York University students, faculty members and staff have access to professional online learning courses for free.
3. Graduate Program Calendar: http://edu.yorku.ca/graduate-program-calendar/
4. Understanding your student account: The following link takes you through an overview that has been developed to assist you in navigating the various financial processes relevant to graduate studies. It is divided into three primary categories accessible through the tabs on the page.
5. Reminder for submission of all forms and to ensure they are accepted and processed:
   1. Students are fully responsible for the download, completion, and submission of forms to their graduate program. Students must attach any correspondence that supports their request at the time of submission.
   2. The Graduate Program in Education office is unable to accept any incomplete forms, so be sure to have all required signatures (emails in lieu of) and required documentation in a complete package before submitting (hard copy or email) any forms.
6. Accommodations for Graduate Students.

Events, Conferences and Workshops

• New! Education Deaf Children Now: Research Evidence Informing Practice. Join us for an exciting two-day conference on the best practice in the education of deaf and hard of hearing children! On Friday, November 22, you will be able to choose two workshops to attend on a variety of topics, including working with parents of preschool children, literacy, theory of mind, cochlear implant connectivity, and using automatic speech recognition for captioning in the classroom. On Saturday, November 23, there will be a full day of speakers, including Dr. Janet Jamieson from the University of British Columbia, Dr. Maria Hartman from Columbia University in New York, Dr. Beverly Trezek from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dr. Susan Stanton from the National Centre for Audiology at Western University. Friday workshops run from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.  Registration closes on November 12, 2019. Accommodation requests need to be submitted by November 1st, 2019. Attendees interested in applying for AG Bell Academy CEU credits will be provided with a certificate of attendance and detailed agenda upon request. Click here for more information.
• New! Learning Skills November Workshops: to help students manage the end-of-term stresses and workload. Workshops topics including Exam Preparation, Get On Track, Managing Academic Stress, and more. All York students, undergraduate and graduate are welcomed. Peer academic support via Drop-in Sessions are available by appointment only. Click here for more information.
• New! Call for Course Proposals – Helix Sumer Science Institute Summer 2020. Faculty members and graduate students from all faculties are encouraged to apply. Course Proposal will be accepted until 15 November 2019.
• New! Call for EdCan Magazine May 2020 issue article proposals. The editors of Education Canada are pleased to invite faculty and graduate students to submit article proposals for their May 2020 issue on Education and the Skilled Trades. Proposals should be sent to editor@edcan.ca by November 18th.
• New! Call for Proposal for papers for the Conference: Facing the Future:Translation and Technology, Glendon Graduate Student Conference in Translation Studies. An abstract of 250-300 words should be sent to transconf@glendon.yorku.ca by 2 December 2019.  The conference is scheduled on 14 March 2020.
• Workshop on campus: Join the TA and instructor training workshop with Dr. Fok-Shuen Leung (the Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia) on Tuesday, December 10 at 10 am; ROSS N638.
• Join the On-Campus Talk: FEMINISM’S MEDICINE RISK, RACE, GENDER AND LAW IN THE AIDS EPIDEMIC by Professor Aziza Ahmed (Northeastern School of Law) on Tuesday, November 14, 12:30 to 2:30 pm, room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School. Please RSVP.
• On-Campus Event: On the panel session, three York authors of Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities will reflect on how their work has mobilized equity efforts at York University and in institutions across Canada and whether and why certain themes, concerns, and questions have garnered response while others have received less engagement. Finally, they will consider the work that needs to be done to address racialization and fulfill the promise of equity in higher education. Event will be held on Wednesday, November 13, 2:00 to 3:30 pm, Ross South 802.
• The Symposium on Family Learning, Inclusion and the value of Play in Museums will be held at Canadian Museum of History, in Gatineau, Quebec. The event offers ample opportunities for discussion, networking and informed commentary, while also taking the pulse of childhood education in today’s museum world. Please RSVP
• Two-day workshop on campus: Work with Dr. Paul Gorski (founder of the Equity Literacy Institute of edchange.org) in a two-day workshop: Understanding and Eradicating Socioeconomic Inequities in Education: The Equity Literacy Approach, on 9 November from 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm and on November 10, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Register now! 
• On-Campus Event:  Disrupting Early Childhood (Inheritance, Pedagogy, Curriculum) will feature three guest speakers in November, January and February. These talks will inaugurate a series designed to attend to the ways early childhood research and pedagogy is implicated. The first talk: Paulo Freire and Early Childhood: Notes on the significance of a non-chronological childhood in education, by Dr. Walter Kohan, on Thursday, November 7, 2019, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm at York Lanes 234 (YL 234). Please send an email to disruptingchildhoods@gmail.com to RSVP.
• Call for Mary McEwan Memorial Awards. Named in honour of Dr. Mary McEwan, a feminist psychiatrist, this annual award of $1,000.00 will be awarded to one PhD dissertation produced in 2018-19 at York University in the area of feminist scholarship. The submission deadline is Monday, November 25, 2019.
• Global Labour Speaker Series: Does Care Count for Less? Female Immigrant Workers in Canada, on Thursday, November 7, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm at Kaneff Tower 519. Click here for more information.
• Las Nubes Semester Abroad 2020 information session will be hosted on October 22, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at HNES 109. An overview of the EcoCampus in Costa Rica and the courses that will be offered in 2020 will be presented. For eligibility and registration click here.
• Grad Program Open House 2019 : Graduate Program in Education is hosting an Open House for those who are interested in applying to the Program on Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 3:30 to 5:30 pm in 113 Winters College.
• On Campus Drop-in Writing Group: Needing the push to get writing? Join fellow graduate students & faculty every Tuesday for a three-hour drop-in session using Pomodoro Technique. Session dates: September 10th to December 3rd, 12pm – 3pm, Kaneff Tower, 7th floor lounge. Click here for details.

Employment/Volunteer Opportunities:

1. Assistant_Professor, Education in Francophone and Plurilingual Settings, OISE, University of Toronto. Apply by 11 November 2019.
2. Fully funded Ph.D position in SLA with a specialization in language policy. Successful candidate will assist Dr. De Costa with research on language policy, with a specific focus on multilingualism in K-12 context, a critique of neoliberal English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policies, and family language policy in international and domestic (US) settings. Priority will be given to individuals who are interested in exploring the interface between language policy and SLA and who have experience in carrying out innovative multimodal language-in-education policy research. The position includes a full MSU tuition waiver, a bi-weekly stipend 9 months per year, and health care year round (12 months per year). To apply for this position, apply as normal (as indicated below) but, in your Personal Statement, write “Application for the Language Policy Graduate Research Assistantship” at the top. if you have questions about this position, please email Dr. Peter De Costa at pdecosta@msu.edu.
3. Master’s internship opportunities from Mitacs Accelerate are available. These partnerships will run for eight months from January to August 2020.
4. Assistant Professor, tenure-track appointment in English as a Second Language (ESL), Glendon College, York University. Apply by November 18, 2019. click GL-ESL Posting for more information.
5. French Post-Doctoral Fellowship, the Department of French, McMaster University. Apply by November 15, 2019.
6. Research Assistants for the project ” Developing academic biliteracy: Longitudinal case studies of learning to write in Canada’s official languages”
7. Two (2) Tenure-track Positions in Counselling Psychology Indigenous or Visible Minority Scholar, Department of Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies (EPLS), Faculty of Education, University of Victoria. Apply by January 6, 2020. See details: EPLS Couns Psych Assistant Professor
8. Tenure track Assistant Professor 2019, Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick. Position starts at July 1, 2020 or as soon as possible. Apply by November 30, 2019.
9. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Education Administration, Policy and Leadership, University of Windsor. See details at: http://www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recruitment/532/tenure-track-assistant-professor-educational-administration-policy-and-leadership
10. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Education Foundations, University of Windsor. See details at: http://www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recruitment/531/tenure-track-assistant-professor-educational-foundations
11. Post-Doctoral Fellowship (FSL Curriculum Redesign), Department of French, McMaster University. Apply by November 15, 2019.
12. Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream – English Language Linguistics and Online Teaching, Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga. Apply by December 12, 2019.
13. Intern Position(s) to design, implement, and analyse a national survey of graduate professional programs, The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) and the Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network (GPDN).

Please note: Information regarding employment opportunities is provided for your information only. York University does not pre-screen, review, endorse or approve employers or employment/volunteer opportunities, and is not responsible for any of the hiring processes or positions. If you have any questions about positions, please work with the employer directly.