Transitional Year Programme Preservation Alliance
Who Does TYP Serve?
The Transitional year program serves a diverse community which includes members of the Aboriginal, Black/African-Canadian, sole support parents, students with diverse sexual and gender identities and differently abled communities
Aimed specifically at those who did not have an opportunity to finish high school because of financial problems, family difficulties or other circumstances beyond their control.
By allowing and encouraging diversity to enter into the University of Toronto without the historical barriers and threats the TYP program can surpass the 70 plus success rate it already has had for years. But the ongoing hostility is threatening that success. Full time faculty have been replaced with part-time faculty which means that the time these dedicated warriors put into the success that the university rode on is compromised. Faculty and staff worry year to year about employment. Students worry year to year about a place that has become like a home.
What is the role of the university in ensuring fairness? If the university is the place that produces teachers for the education system, does the university produce the kind of teachers who subscribe to having the pyrmidal structure of the corporate world reflected in the primary and middle schools? The teachers produced by the university shape the perceptions and the expectations of students, and many teachers incorporate in their teaching the system's ideas of racism and chauvinism and communicate these values to the youth (Horace Campbell, 2000)
