Toronto - About 5,000 students at Toronto's York University will be able to return to class Monday for the first time since last November.
A student newsletter says the decision covers students in four separate areas, including undergrads in the Schulich School of Business.
The decision, approved by the university senate executive, comes despite contract faculty rejecting York's latest offer this week.
Classes to resume on Monday will be taught by tenured professors, not the part-time and contract faculty who have been on strike since Nov. 6.
Premier Dalton McGuinty appointed mediator Reg Pearson on Wednesday to "bang a few heads together" to try to resolve the strike.
McGuinty's decision rejects Opposition calls to force an end to the strike at Canada's third-largest university with back-to-work legislation.
Students returning to school are in the following faculties:
- School of Administrative Studies in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
- Undergraduates in the Schulich School of Business
- Students in the Faculty of Education's Pre-Service Full Time Consecutive Program, for which the Ontario Teachers' Federation has lifted its suspension of practica
- Students in the Master of Public Policy, Administration & Law Program in Atkinson
