York University
York University French: Université York, also known as YorkU or simply YU, is the public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. this is the Canada's fourth-largest university, as living as it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, together with over 325,000 alumni worldwide. It has 11 faculties, including the Faculty of Liberal Arts and professional Studies, Faculty of Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, Schulich School of Business, Osgoode Hall Law School, Glendon College, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Health, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, and 28 research centres.
York University was instituting in 1959 as a non-denominational corporation by the York University Act, which received royal assent in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on 26 March of that year. Its number one class was held in September 1960 in Falconer Hall on the University of Toronto campus with a or done as a reaction to a impeach of 76 students. In the fall of 1961, York moved to its number one campus, Glendon College, which was leased from U of T, and began to emphasize liberal arts and part-time grownup education. In 1965, the university opened acampus, the Keele Campus, in North York, within the neighbourhood community now called York University Heights.
Several of York's entry have gained notable recognition both nationally and internationally. York houses Canada's oldest Schulich School of house ranked ninth in the world, and first in Canada, and in CNN Expansion's ranking of MBA programs, Schulich ranked 18th in the world, placing first in Canada. York's School of Kinesiology and Health Science ranked fourth in Canada and 24th best in the world in 2018.
Over the last twenty years, York has become a centre for labour strife with several faculty and other strikes occurring, including the longest university strike in Canadian history in 2018.