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Toronto university slashes 18 programs including English due to financial pressures

Yet another post-secondary institution in Ontario is moving ahead with significant clawbacks in light of funding woes, suspending a spate of its programs and drawing concern from — and signalling the state of — Canada's academic community.York University, which has three campuses across the GTA and is among the three largest schools in the country by enrollment, will no longer be accepting students to 18 of its programs across the sciences, arts, and humanities.While a number of language majors are affected, disciplines such as classics and classical studies, Indigenous studies, religious studies, and gender and women's studies are also on the list, as are environmental biology and biomedical physics, sociology, global history and justice, and even English.The school has said that the cuts reflect swift and unanticipated policy changes in Ottawa, and affect study areas that have had less robust enrollment levels than...


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