After eight months of consultation with the community, as well as internal and external research partners, the 91��ɫ Senate has unanimously approved the University’s new strategic research plan, "Building on Strength".

“91��ɫ’s new strategic research plan commits to building research on our strengths and provides a strong aspirational vision for the development and recognition of 91��ɫ’s research over the next five years,” said Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation.  “I would like to thank the entire 91��ɫ community for your positive response to the consultation process and earnest engagement that made such important contributions to the development of the plan.  We will continue to invest in the growth and development of our research as a foundational part of our efforts to grow our academic reputation as a recognized leading research-intensive university.”

Robert Haché

The plan supports the University’s research vision to better understand the human condition and the world around us and to employ the knowledge gained in the service of society as described in six intersecting themes:

• advancing fundamental discovery and critical knowledge,
• analyzing cultures and mobilizing creativity,
• building healthy lives and communities,
• exploring the frontiers of science and technology,
• forging a just and sustainable world,
• integrating entrepreneurial innovation and the public good.

The plan also articulates five areas of opportunities that complement past accomplishments, new developments, momentum and timing to provide particular opportunities for building research success.  They include:

• digital cultures,
• engineering research that matters,
• healthy individuals, healthy communities and global health,
• public engagement for a just and sustainable world, and
• scholarship of socially engaged research.

Through this plan, the University is implementing the objectives set out for research in both the University Academic Plan and the Provost’s 2010 white paper, which identify research intensification as a key University goal and recognize research as a core endeavor that broadly enriches the institution. The plan is meant to be a living document, responsive to the University's successes, as well as being sensitive to a rapidly evolving landscape.

Through a strategic combination of broadly based and focused investments over the course of the next five years, 91��ɫ will continue its impressive development as a leading Canadian research university whose scholarship enhances our culture and improves society.

To view the full plan, click .

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The launch will take place March 23, from 2 to 3:30pm, Founders Senior Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus.

Reconsidering Knowledge (Fernwood Publishing) also explores current ideas about feminism in relation to knowledge, education and society, as well as the future potential for feminist research and teaching in the university context. It emerged from the Feminist Knowledge Reconsidered: Feminism and the Academy lecture series held at 91��ɫ in 2009.

Connecting early stories of women who defied their exclusion from knowledge creation to contemporary challenges for feminism in universities, this collection assesses how feminist knowledge has influenced dominant thinking and transformed teaching and learning.

Mary Jane Mossman

It also focuses on the challenges for feminism as corporatization redefines the role of universities in a global world. The essays reflect on both historical and contemporary themes from a diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. These essays are united in their exploration of how feminism’s continuing contribution to knowledge remains significant, even fundamental, to the transformation of knowledge in the academy and in our world.

Meg Luxton

Mossman, director of feminist legal studies at the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, is the author of The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions (Hart Publishing, 2006). Luxton is also the co-editor of Neoliberalism and Everyday (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010).

The event co-sponsors include Professor Enakshi Dua, director of 91��ɫ’s Centre for Feminist Research, and Professor Sonia Lawrence, director of Osgoode’s Institute for Feminist Legal Studies.

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The fair showcases a diverse range of vendors selling fair and sustainable products, including arts and crafts, clothing, coffee and chocolate. The event also serves as a forum for faculty, staff and students who are interested in learning more about fair trade.  

What is fair trade?

On its website, describes fair trade as a “way for all of us to identify products that meet our values so we can make choices that have a positive impact on the world.”

Over the years, the University has pursued a number of fair trade endeavours.   

91��ɫ's own Las Nubes coffee (fair trade, organic and shade grown) is served at nine locations on both campuses. To know more about the Las Nubes project, visit the �ɱ�������ٱ�.��

Right: 91��ɫ's Las Nubes coffee is shade grown in Costa Rica

Fair trade coffee and Rainforest Alliance tea is served at most coffee shops at 91��ɫ and can be ordered for catering. A number of campus locations serve fair trade coffee. The locations are: the Central Square Cafeteria, TEL Building Café, Winters Cafeteria, Stong Cafeteria, Freshii, the Osgoode Bistro, Glendon Café, Glendon Eurobaguette, and the Graduate Student Lounge.

The 91��ɫ Bookstore now sells fair trade 91��ɫ t-shirts (which is a first for Canadian universities). The bookstore will be selling t-shirts at the fair. To learn more about the Bookstore's fair trade t-shirt initiative, see YFile, Oct. 11, 2011.

Left: The 91��ɫ Bookstore sells fair trade t-shirts

91��ɫ students have also demonstrated leadership in fair trade. The 91��ɫ Federation of Students Is committed to the Canadian Federation of Students Students for Sustainability campaign and is an active participant in many social justice and sustainability events and campaigns. As well, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) is a co-sponsor of Thursday's Fair Trade Fair and can be contacted by sending an e-mail to opirg@yorku.ca.

Coming in early 2012, 91��ɫ  University will also be launching its new Sustainability Ambassadors program. To learn more, visit the President's Sustainability Council website or e-mail sustainability@yorku.ca.

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This is the fifth year that Schulich has been eligible to participate in the Financial Times ranking and the fifth straight year that the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program has been ranked number one in Canada.  

“We’re pleased to have been rated the number one EMBA program in Canada for the fifth straight year by the Financial Times of London, and we're especially pleased that we strongly improved our overall global position this year and now rank among the very best EMBA programs in the world,” said Schulich Dean Dezsö J. Horváth (right).  

In placing 11th globally in the 2011 Financial Times ranking, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA program finished ahead of IMD in Switzerland, the Stern School of Business at New 91��ɫ and the Berkeley/Columbia EMBA, and just behind London Business School and Wharton. Among EMBA programs based in North America or involving North American schools, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked sixth overall and was the only Canadian program to make the world’s top 25.

Among Canadian-based programs, the Kellogg-Schulich EMBA placed ahead of the EMBA programs delivered by the Rotman School of Management, which ranked 28th; the Ivey School of Business, ranked 36th; the Cornell-Queen’s EMBA, ranked 44th; the Alberta-Haskayne EMBA (a joint program delivered by the University of Alberta School of Business and the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business), ranked 73rd; and the Queen's EMBA, which ranked 84th overall. For complete details regarding the rankings, visit the  �ɱ�������ٱ�.��

Other survey highlights

The Kellogg-Schulich EMBA ranked among the top 15 in the world in the following categories:

• Third in the world in the “International Students” category, which measures international diversity and experience in the classroom.
• Eighth in the world in the “Work Experience” category, which measures the seniority and international experience of the EMBA program’s students.
• 12th in the world in the “International Course Experience” category, which measures the percentage of classroom teaching hours carried out in countries outside of the country where the program is located.
• 14th in the world in the "Career Progress" category, which measures rises in the seniority of job positions held.
• 15th in the world in the “Research” category, which measures the number of articles published by the entire faculty in leading academic and business practitioner journals.

�۱���ٱ���岹��’s Financial Times survey marks the third straight ranking in which one of Schulich's MBA or EMBA programs has been ranked among the world's best. Earlier this month, Schulich's MBA program was ranked number nine globally by The Economist magazine and ranked number two in the world by the Aspen Institute, a US-based leadership think tank.

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