YORK UNIVERSITY: New schools offer students wide range of programs; York University melds higher education with demands of workplace at new Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies

October 18, 2000

OCT 17, 2000, M2 Communications – TORONTO — York University is responding to the rising demand for a university education that also provides job skills and professional accreditation for the workplace with the newly reorganized Joseph E. Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies. The new Faculty will serve both part-time adult learners and full-time day students in degree and certificate programs, with a combination of in-class courses, and distance learning via the Internet and correspondence.