Students for Barrier-Free Access (SBA) is writing to ask for your support regarding an urgent issue occurring at the University of Toronto. Post-secondary institutions across North America have been adopting university-mandated leave of absence policy (UMLAP).
This policy gives the university the ability to use excessive discretionary power, lacks transparency, increases stress for students’ who need support, and fails to create correlation with meaningful increases in mental health resources that have been repeatedly raised by students. Key concerns and leave policy “best practices” previously outlined by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) also continue to be absent from the Policy and its updates.
Students for Barrier-Free Access 