Please be advised that due to the shutdown, we are extending the time for you to complete the cardholder and approver approvals. You will have until Tuesday, January 12, 2016 to review and approve your transactions.
If you use the central answer sheet scanning service offered by Information Technology Services, be advised that the form students use to mark their responses has changed.
Going forward, legacy SCANTRON forms will no longer be accepted. Effective immediately, instructors are asked to start using a new, non-proprietary answer sheet.
Using the new form is quick and easy. Simply visit humber.ca/staff/its, click the Answer Sheet Scanning link, and print (double sided) as many Answer Sheets as needed.
Note that the new answer sheet solution is as easy to use and offers the same features as the legacy form. No special training is needed to start using the new answer sheet. But unlike the legacy form, the new answer sheet works on modern scanners. And switching to a non-proprietary solution saves Humber the expense of buying printed forms.
Instructors are asked to use the new answer sheet effective immediately. Assessments already completed on legacy SCANTRON forms will be accepted until the end of the week.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call me at x5290. You can also reach me at Ryan.Burton@humber.ca at any time.
Ryan Burton
Director, I.T. Planning & Client Services
Humber is becoming a greener campus and everyone is participating! Humber Sustainability Highlights features what departments around the college are doing to integrate sustainable practices. This month’s focus is the Department of Applied Research and Innovation which recently introduced a paper reduction initiative by transferring the following to digital format:
Lowering paper usage resulted in significant environmental savings, higher efficiency measures and increased productivity throughout the department. With nearly 171, 500 pages of paper being used each year- 160, 000 pages for the Annual Report alone, Ethics and Internal Programs manager, Krista Holmes knew it was time to make a change.
“By moving all of our systems online, the department has made managing our departmental projects more convenient and efficient. Information and archived projects are now easily accessible on our website. As a department that supports and values sustainability, we are excited about this initiative and the positive impacts it will have on our environmental footprint,” said Holmes.
Why should we care about reducing our paper and printing waste?
LEARN MORE
The Secret Life of Paper – Video
Humber Sustainability Plan 2014-2019
Want to feature your department’s environmental initiatives in Humber Sustainability Highlights? Email us at sustainability@humber.ca
Get yourself, a friend or colleague a Humber Food Truck Gift Pack on sale from Dec. 14 to 22. Just in time for the holidays!
Gift packs include a pair of Humber Food Truck oven mitts, a Humber Food Truck apron and a gift certificate.
On sale in front of Gourmet Express, North Campus.
On Wed Dec 9th, the Humber College Retirees' Association hosted its annual Christmas Luncheon in the Humber Room.
A great time was had by the many retired staff who returned to the College to enjoy one another's company and a great Christmas luncheon. Part of our event is dedicated to the raising of money for a Humber College Retirees' bursary.
This year we raised $890 to add to our bursary fund. This money was raised by selling raffle tickets for the many gifts that were donated by the different schools and offices, external companies, and retired members of Humber College.
A great big thank you for your donations on behalf of the retirees' association and the students who will benefit from the bursary.
Pictures from the event will be posted shortly at retirees.humber.ca under "Social Events".
Have any used athletic shoes, cleats, or sporting equipment that you are looking to donate?
Athletics will be collecting these items for Holy Trinity High School in Kingston, Jamaica.
You can bring your equipment to the Men’s and Women’s Basketball games on Thursday, December 3rd, or you can drop off your items in the donation bin by the Athletics Customer Service desk until December 17th.
HUMBER INTERFAITH CALENDAR MULTIFAITH HOLY DAYS & FESTIVALS
JANUARY 2016
In the spirit of diversity and inclusion, we provide the following Multifaith Holy Days & Festivals realizing that it is not exhaustive. Should you wish your faith’s days to be included, please contact the Chaplain at x4427 or chaplain@humber.ca for due consideration.
Note: Resources used include Multicultural Calendar of Creative Cultural Communications and various other public sources.
01 Friday:
New Year’s Day (Canada/International)
January = Mndioo Giizis / K'aliyee (Aboriginal)
Spirit Moon (Ojibwe). K’aliyee is the time of the cold north wind (Other).
Temple Day (Buddhism)
North American Buddhists of all schools attend a special service in the local temple.
Shogatu/Gantan-sai (Shinto)
The Japanese welcome the New Year with prayers for renewal of hearts, good health and prosperity and wear their best clothes to visit shrines in large numbers, some at midnight on New Year’s Eve. Over the next 7 days, people visit one another's homes to offer good wishes for the coming year.
Ghambar Maidyarem Dec 31, 2014-Jan 04 (Zoroastrianism)
Celebrates the creation of animals and is a time for equitable sharing of food.
05 Tuesday:
Birth of Guru Gobind Singh Ji (Sikhism)
The tenth and final Sikh master created the Khalsa, the Brotherhood of the Pure, and declared the Scriptures, the Adi Granth, to be the Sikh's Guru from that time on.
06 Wednesday:
Christmas / Epiphany / 3 Kings Day (Christianity)
Eastern: Some churches celebrate Christmas, the birth of Jesus; some celebrate Epiphany, the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. Some Western & South American churches celebrate 3 Kings Day with gift-giving as when wise men from the East visited Bethlehem with gifts for the Christ child.
07 Thursday:
Christmas / Nativity (Christianity-Eastern)
Eastern Orthodox and Coptic (Egyptian) churches celebrate Christmas or Nativity according to the Julian calendar, 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar (Dec 25) used by Western churches.
10 Sunday: New Moon The moon is at its least visibility.
11 Monday:
Seijin no hi or Coming-of-Age Day (Shinto)
A national holiday in Japan in which young women and men 20 years of age go to shrines wearing traditional clothing and their families proclaim their adult status to the kami or spirits and pray for their health and well being as they grow older.
13-14 Wednesday-Thursday:
Lohri (Hinduism_) / Maghi(Sikhism)
Bonfires are lit to mark the increase of the sun and the lengthening of days.
14 Thursday:
New Year (Christianity-Eastern)
Coptic (Egyptian) and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate New Year by the Julian calendar, 13 days after the Gregorian calendar.
Makar-Sankranti (Hinduism)
Denotes the gradual lengthening of days in the northern hemisphere.
19 Tuesday:
Theophany/Timkat (Christianity-Eastern)
Eastern churches celebrate this day as the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist and the later miracle at Cana when Jesus turned water into wine.
Sultan (Baha'i)
Sultan, meaning Sovereignty, is the 17th month of the Baha'i year and involves an annual celebration of the teachings of unity found in all religions, Baha'is invite representatives of other traditions to address a common theme.
24 Sunday:
Full Moon The moon is at its greatest visibility.
25 Monday:
Tu B'Shevat or Arbour Day (Judaism)
The 15th of the month of Shevat celebrates Judaism’s connection with nature as the new year's day for trees and the first of the year tradition of tithing the fruit of trees. The day can involve environmental actions like tree planting plus special meals including the 7 fruits of the land from Deuteronomy 8:8 (barley, dates, figs, grapes, olives, pomegranates, wheat), each representing a spiritual idea.
30 Saturday:
Sadeh (Zoroastrian)
A mid-winter festival denoting the 100 days after summer with bonfires to show the power of fire and light in defeating darkness and cold, as persons gather around a fire to pray and, holding hands, dance around these fires in a circle.
Contact: Chaplain Len Thomas, 416.675.6622 x4427, chaplain@humber.ca
On Friday, December 4, 23 teams comprised of students and staff took part in the 2015 Spin-a-thon for United Way of Toronto & York Region, raising over $15,000 for local communities in need.
Organized by 2nd-year students in the Fitness & Health Promotion program, this is the sixth year in a row that the event has taken place at Humber, but the first year with students running the show.
“It was a great experience for our students and I’m thrilled with the outcome,” says Fitness & Health Promotion instructor, Debra Basch. “They came a long way from the start of the semester, not knowing how to put an event together, to now having a very successful one behind them. I’m very proud of what they accomplished,” she adds.
There was an increase in student participation this year with five teams in total, a new record for the event. The teams were very creative with their themes as well, from ‘We Are LED-ing The Way’, to ‘Spinners of Oz’.
For more information about the United Way of Toronto and & York Region and the programs they support, please visit: unitedwaytyr.com
When you are booking an event/conference/convention for 10 or more people there are additional discounts offered if you set up the event.
To create an event please go to aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/before/conventions where you can see the how to and a list of the benefits and discounts based on travel class and destination.
Any questions, please contact purchasing@humber.ca.
After a collaborative competitive bidding process conducted by OECM and assisted by Purchasing Services and Information Technology Services, Humber is officially announcing that the Toner Supplies and Related Services contract has been awarded to PrintersPlus for a firm 3-year term (September 9, 2015 to September 9, 2018) with one optional 2-year term.
NEW CONTRACT BENEFITS
Before placing an order, each academic school and administrative department should setup their own standing order for toner supplies for each fiscal year with a reasonably estimated budget. If there is no existing standing order in place for your area for the current fiscal year, please set up the requisition on Banner in a timely manner. The vendor # is N00000735.
Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact Purchasing Services by email at purchasing@humber.ca.
ORDER PLACEMENT & PROCESSING
EMPTY TONER AND INK RECYCLING PROGRAM
Once you have accumulated 4-5 cartridges, please send an email to jpinke@printersplus.net with the number of toners to be recycled. You will then receive an email with the correct number of prepaid UPS waybills which can be attached to the cartridges for pick-up. Place the way bill on the outside of the box, and send to Central Receiving. UPS will pick up the filled boxes from Central Receiving and return to the Supplier’s recycling centre.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
For technical support contact Jeff Syed at 1-866-242-1153 or by email: jsyed@printersplus.net.
The toner supplies for the Multi-Function Devices are included in the Xerox contract. Please contact the ITS Helpdesk at ext. 8888, or submit the online order form formstack.com/forms/?1438316-IJPCrhqLaD when the new toner supply is required.