Transitional Year Programme Preservation Alliance

12/12/2016

When dreaming boundlessly as a TYP student at U of T

03/28/2016

TRANSITIONAL YEAR PROGRAMME OPEN HOUSE
WHEN
Tuesday, March 29th
6pm – 9pm
WHERE
TYP House
123 St. George St., Toronto, ON
OPEN TO · Prospective Students and Families · U of T Students and Families · TYP Alumni · TYP Students · U of T Faculty and Administration
Come and join us for an evening filled with food, drinks, and get to know the Transitional Year Programme!
GET TO KNOW TYP
FREE!
SPEAK WITH
TYP Alumni
Current TYP Students
TYP Faculty

03/28/2016

Did you leave high school early? Do you dream of going to University? The Transitional Year Programme (TYP) is a full-time, eight-month access-to-University ...

03/25/2015

Even if you wear it on your head a degree will not protect you...

The experiences of Martese Johnson and Lawrence Otis Graham prove that adhering to the code of respectability politics does not guarantee protection from the sensory and institutional aspects of racism....

03/25/2015

White people may experience occasional and unacceptable prejudice, but not racism. They do not experience the systemic racism that makes it hard for them to find jobs, housing, health care and justice in the legal system.

Racism is not personal, it is structural. Unlike the arena of mainstream media, the educational system, religious institutions and judicial systems that reinforce hurtful stereotypes, these spaces remind the oppressed that they are human, that they deserve respect.

Last week The Ryersonian reported on an incident that involved two students who were turned away from an event because they are white. Since then there has been a lot of commentary on the piece and a lot of debate -- a lot of the criticism is valid. ...

03/18/2015

This is my opinion on why more white people don't speak out against racism and systemic white supremacy. While my tone is inflammatory, my intentions are to ...

03/04/2015

This has been going on for too long now. We told you about them doing it to the faculty at the Transitional Year Programme which is how we went from having 10-11 full-time faculty to 4, and we hear they may be considering 5. In the meanwhile the rest are sessional, and forced into inadequate spaces. Shame on you U of T. Shame!

It is a black mark on the ivory tower, a story of insecurity, fear, jealousy, thwarted ambition, poverty and inequality. And it's a reality that university presidents, and many professors, don't like to talk about....

03/02/2015

Whilst the Preservation Alliance celebrates with the students of the University of Toronto for the building forecasted to open in 2017, some cannot help but reflect on why the same support was not rallied in support of the students at the Transitional Year Programme. In fact some suggest that the recent Toronto chapter of the BlackLivesMatter campaign is also suspect since many of the faces campaigning about the importance of Black Lives failed to support the program that transitions Black lives. Some sources state that U of T funds the same groups that are suppose to have the best interests of the students they serve, and when TYP students were protesting the university threatened those groups with repercussions if they they fully supported the students who by lack of numbers failed to secure a space for the program that has been successfully transitioning students for the past 40 years. "What happened was that many of the students, as well as the Preservation Alliance were demonized by the administration and some members of faculty at TYP whose paycheques are written by the administration to the detriment of the program." Resulting in divisions, and fear to resonate. Currently the new location for the Transitional Year Programme is not being embraced as the safe space it once represented. As well as issues of concern have still not been resolved, but some students remain optimistic believing that it is never to late. As one students said, "I hear people speaking about TYP as if they cared when we needed their support, and hopefully their actions will catch up with their words." Because just like those on strike at the university know, "we need the university to support all of its faculty, staff, and students, and become the institution it purports to be."

Building forecasted to open in 2017

02/20/2015

One of the larger concerns we had with the new location that the administration put the students into is the asbestos problem. The provosts response to our concerns was that the university has a lot of asbestos issues that they are not concerned with since it has to be disturbed to become a problem. We did not want to wait for the disturbance to occur before the students become a priority. We pay fees and expect that an elite institution like the University of Toronto s/would want to protect its students. Whilst there are many ways students want to make money, deteriorated health is not one of them.

Helping Canadian mesothelioma victims to obtain the compensation they deserve

02/19/2015

One cannot change reality by changing the words you use to describe reality. Look beneath the rhetoric, and glimpse the truth.

02/18/2015

"TYP was founded by members of the Black community in the summer of 1969, during the height of the civil rights movement, to address systemic discrimination faced by Blacks who were denied access to higher education due to streaming and high school incompletion rates."

01/24/2014

Let us not forget…don't give up the fight to stand up for our rights!!!!!!!!!!


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