York University

The Schulich School of Business is York University's business school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is an internationally-ranked business... school. Schulich offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration, finance, public administration and international business as well as a number of PhD and executive programs. Originally known as the Faculty of Administrative Studies , it was renamed in 1995 after Seymour Schulich, a major benefactor who has donated $15 million to the school. Although the Schulich School is a faculty of York University, it operates under a separate budget and its own dean. Primarily located at the Seymour Schulich Building in Toronto, Ontario, the school maintains an executive education centre in Toronto's Financial District in downtown Toronto and a satellite campus in Hyderabad, India. The School also operates representative offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; and Moscow, Russia. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has more than 21,000 alumni working in approximately 90 countries.
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Osgoode Hall Law School is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the professional faculties at York University. Named after the first... Chief Justice of Ontario, William Osgoode, the law school was established by The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1889. Osgoode Hall Law School is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in Canada by Maclean's Magazine, ranking second among common-law schools in 2011. The school was at the centre of the debates over the principles of modern legal education in the 1950s. Osgoode Hall Law School provided many of the founding members of the bar in the prairie provinces. Today, the law school offers a professional degree in law that is accepted for bar admission in every province in Canada with the exception of Quebec, as well as the American States of Massachusetts and New York. Osgoode has three joint degree programs, as well as Canada's largest graduate program in law. Osgoode Hall Law School has adopted the Juris Doctor degree designation which has replaced their previous Bachelor of Laws designation.
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Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario. He has published... five short story collections, four novels , two books of essays, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son and Attack of the Copula Spiders, and The Enamoured Knight, a book-length meditation on Don Quixote and novel form. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from York University in 1969 and an M.Litt. in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1971. He taught philosophy at the University of New Brunswick in 1971-72 and then worked as a reporter and editor on newspapers in Saint John, New Brunswick; Peterborough, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, until 1979. In 1982, he received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop. Since the early 1990s, Glover has lived in Wilton, New York teaching at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Skidmore College, Colgate University, and the University of Albany. He was the 2005 McGee Professor of Writing at Davidson College.
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Irving Martin Abella, CM FRSC is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. He specializes in the History of the Jews in Canada and the... Canadian labour movement Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree , Master of Arts degree, and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. His books have included Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada and None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948 . He is a professor at York University and is a former president of the Canadian Jewish Congress . In 1993, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is married to Canadian jurist Rosalie Silberman Abella, who was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in August, 2004. They have two sons, Jacob and Zachary. Irving Abella is the cousin of Isaac Abella.
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George Ramsay Cook, OC, FRSC , is a Canadian historian and general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. He was professor of history at... York University for 25 years until 1996. Through his championing of so-called "limited identities", Cook contributed to the rise of the New Social History, which uses "class, gender and ethnicity" as its three main categories of analysis. Cook's conception of "limited identities" was famously formulated in an article in the International Journal in 1967, Canada's centenary year, reviewing the state of contemporary scholarship on Canadian nationalism: After six new books on the great Canadian problem — our lack of unity and identity — are we getting any nearer the source of the problem? Undoubtedly something is achieved: if nothing else one can wonder if the search is worth the effort. Certainly we should continue to try to understand ourselves; an unexamined nation is not worth living in. But it may be that the frame of reference is wrong.
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Philip Michael Ondaatje , OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist. He won the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient, which was adapted... into an Academy Award-winning film. Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1943 and moved to England in 1954. He attended Dulwich College. After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen. He studied for a time at Bishop's College School and Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, but moved to Toronto, where he received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He then began teaching at the University of Western Ontario in London. In 1970, he settled in Toronto and, from 1971 to 1990, taught English literature at York University and Glendon College. Ondaatje's work includes fiction, autobiography, poetry and film. He has published 13 books of poetry, and won the Governor General's Award for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems 1973-1978 .
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Eli Mandel was a Canadian poet, editor of many Canadian anthologies, and literary academic. Ten years prior to his death, Eli Mandel’s passing... would have been significant news; however, because of a series of strokes that left him unable to write, Mandel had long since gone unrecognized. He was born Elias Wolf Mandel in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada to Russian Jewish parents who had emigrated from the Ukraine, and grew up the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression. After a job working for a pharmacist who, landed him a position serving in Canada's Medical Corps during World War II, it has been said Mandel returned a forever emotionally distraught man who was destined to live the rest of his life without a sense of belonging. This helps explain the alienation that is illustrated throughout his writings. He studied English at the University of Saskatchewan attaining a Master of Arts degree in 1950. His further studies at the University of Toronto earned him a PhD in 1957. Mandel taught English and creative writing at the University of Alberta, University of Victoria, University of Toronto, and York University.
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