Eligibility:
- The purpose of the Innovation of the Year Awards is to recognize College employees who have designed and implemented a significant innovation that positively impacts the learning of students in the College.
- Employees from all employee groups (full and part-time faculty, administrators and support staff) are eligible for nomination.
Criteria:
The major criterion for nomination is that the innovation has: A Positive Impact On Students’ Learning.
Additional criteria to be used for judging the merit of an innovation and its impact on students’ learning are:
- Creativity : The selected innovation will be as original as possible or be a unique adaptation of an existing program, process or concept.
- Effectiveness: There is evidence that the innovation leads to a better process for accomplishing a task(s).
- Replication: The significant components of the innovation selected can be replicated in other institutions with a minimum of difficulty. The description of the program will include any conditions necessary for replication.
- Timeliness: Innovation will not be more than five years old in the institution, but it must have been in existence long enough to have been tested.
- Currency: There is evidence that the innovation is current in content and adaptive to technological applications as appropriate.
- Collaboration: The innovation may demonstrate that a considerable collaboration effort has occurred between school/or college teams.
- Quality : Students and/or staff agree that the innovation increases quality in the course program, office or institution. Evidence of quality may include student ratings or letters of support for colleagues.
Nominations:
Nomination forms must be signed by two members of the College community and accompanied by:
- i. A two hundred word description of the innovation.
- ii. Rationale for nominating the innovation.
- iii. Objective/purpose of the innovation.
- iv. Impact of the innovation.
- v. The role/contribution of the innovation to Humber and other community colleges.
- vi. Endorsement by division director/dean, associate dean/manager.