Proposals are now being accepted for Showcase 2015 on the theme of “By Design.”
Share your expertise and experience with the rest of the Humber community! If you have an idea for a one-hour lecture, workshop or presentation, or a Marketplace display, submit your proposal at humber.ca/showcase/2015. Our theme this year is By Design, which aligns with our keynote speaker, instructional design specialist Dee Fink.
College Council Highlights: March, 2015
College Council held its third meeting of the winter semester on Thursday, March 12, at the North campus. In the interest of keeping the Humber community informed about upcoming events, new initiatives, and important issues, I will be continuing to report the highlights of the monthly meetings. For more information on any topic, or to give me feedback on the reports, please feel free to contact me directly, at lisa.salem-wiseman@humber.ca.
New Programs
Humber prides itself on providing leading-edge programming, a fact which is supported by the two new programs that were presented to Council.
Humber’s School of Health Sciences is launching an Advanced Diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine. This three-year program is a direct response to industry demands, in light of the recent regulation of the profession in Ontario. This program offers students the theory and applied skills required for practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and will be the only program of its kind offered at a public institution in Ontario. This program offers a solid grounding in core health sciences, including anatomy, physiology, biology and pharmacology, and includes a mandatory clinical placement. Students will learn the theory and applied skills required for the practice of TCM, including diagnosis and treatment, legal procedures and requirements, and inter-professional collaboration. It is anticipated that advanced diploma will be of interest to high school graduates, mature and international students, individuals working within the field who want to update their training, as well as students in Humber programs such as Practical Nursing, Paramedic, Pharmacy Technician, and OTA/PTA.
Humber’s School of Media Studies and Information Technology will be offering a fully online Graduate Certificate in Multiplatform Storytelling. This two-semester program, which is already attracting interest from current Humber students, fits well with the existing cluster of film-related programs in the School. This program, which is the only Canadian example of a graduate level program in multi-platform storytelling that is offered completely online, cultivates students’ ability to adapt to a constantly changing multi-platform media industry through engagement with a range of traditional and emerging media forms. The program offers an additional pathway for graduates from many of the School’s advanced diplomas and degrees, demonstrating Humber’s strategic commitment to polytechnic education through identifiable pathways.
2015-16 Business Plan and Budget
Amy Kaufman, Humber’s Manager, Planning and Government Relations, walked members of Council through the 2015-16 Business Plan. Key strategic initiatives include the following:
Sanjay Puri, Director, Financial Services and Planning, spoke about the 2015-2016 Budget, which is informed by the Business Plan. The Budget provides for operating and ancillary activities, key strategic priorities and initiatives, and also addresses Humber’s three- year financial outlook, contingency planning, strategic infrastructure projects and cash flow impact.
To access a copy of the 2015-16 Business Plan, as well as additional information related to the implementation of the 2013-18 Strategic Plan, please visit
humber.ca/wearehumber/staff/humber-planning-documents
Alumni Relations Strategic Plan
Alister Mathieson, Vice-President, Advancement and External Affairs, Adelia Marchese, Manager, Annual Programs and Alumni Relations Advancement, and Krista O’Donnell, Humber’s new Chief Advancement Officer presented Humber’s first formalized Alumni Relations Strategic Plan. The process of developing the plan began in Feb 2014, and the plan has now been presented to the Board of Governors. The development of an alumni relations strategy in order to build and maintain beneficial relationships with alumni is a key initiative in Humber’s 2013-2018 Strategic Plan. The process involved internal stakeholder consultation, an internal advisory committee, a best-practice review, and an alumni engagement survey.
The goals of the plan are to build an organizational structure that supports alumni engagement, to build a robust alumni database, and to expand existing alumni programs and activities and develop new ones to increase alumni engagement.
The current circulation of Humber Dialogue, Humber’s official alumni magazine is 83,000, plus an additional 4,000 available on campuses. E-Dialogue, the alumni e-newsletter, was launched in Fall 2014 and has a current circulation of 39,000. An official alumni presence on social media was established in 2011. Humber alumni has 3,756 likes on Facebook, 2,420 followers on Twitter, 1876 on LinkedIn, 287 on Instagram, and 42 subscribers on YouTube. In May, 2014, the office launched the Milestones Program, which recognizes alumni’s life milestones. To date, 90 new alumni milestones have been celebrated.
The office is continuing to expand its alumni perks and benefits. Currently, Humber has two affinity partners, 27 external perks, including discounts and coupons for organizations such as Ripley’s Aquarium and the Toronto Rock lacrosse team, and 4 internal perks.
Humber’s culture of alumni begins with orientation. Since 2011, the alumni office has engaged with Humber students by participating in campus-wide student events. Since 2010, the alumni office has been present at every convocation ceremony, immediately welcoming each new graduate into the Humber alumni family with an alumni pin, and mailing an alumni package with a personalized alumni card to all new graduates. In 2014, the office interacted with over 5,0000 new graduates.
The office continues to partner with a number of schools and departments on alumni initiatives, as alumni engagement is a shared institutional responsibility
Upcoming Events
The 2015 International Development Symposium will be held at Humber College on May 1. Hosted by the Business School, the symposium, Beyond GDP: Development Alternatives to Growth, will explore issues around conceptualizing, implementing and measuring development in a multidimensional and integrated manner. The keynote address will be delivered by the Honourable Jigmi Y. Thinley, former prime minister of Bhutan and current chair, The New Development Paradigm. For more information, please visit https://business.humber.ca/idisymposium/
In keeping with Council’s mandate to report back to the President on key items, members of Council met in small working groups to discuss the evening’s presentations and to make notes that will be brought to the President.
The next meeting of College Council will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2015, at the North Campus.
To ensure we are organized and ready to service the 4000+ students we see during Humber and Guelph Humber finals, we find it helpful to have exams submitted to the Test Centre no less than 2 business days prior to the student test. As a result, we encourage exams to be submitted to the Test Centre on the following days:
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Faculty Exam Submission: |
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Wednesday April 1, 2015 |
April 6 – 11, 2015 |
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Thursday April 9, 2015 |
April 13 – 17, 2015 |
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Thursday April 16, 2015 |
April 20 – 25, 2015 |
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Thursday April 23, 2015 |
April 27 – May 2, 2015 |
We have recently revamped the Test Centre website with faculty specific content, I encourage all faculty to visit http://www.humber.ca/testcentre/ to get more information on our services. Our current hours of operation can be found at the bottom of all pages.
A few more helpful links:
Thank you for your time and cooperation!
The Office of the Senior Vice President, Academic is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Heidi Marsh as the Director, Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL).
The Director, SoTL will establish Humber College as a leader in the emerging movement of scholarly inquiry into teaching and learning processes. Under the direction of the Associate Vice-President, Teaching and Learning, Dr. Marsh will provide cross-college leadership in advancing and advocating for activities related to SoTL. Such activities will include: identification of questions related to student learning; rigorous, systematic and evidence-based study of student learning; research and peer-review of the results; and communication of the findings, broadly, to provide insights to other educators across the system. The Director will also be responsible for managing a peer-reviewed academic journal at Humber for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Heidi Marsh has spent the past decade researching and teaching on the topic of cognitive and metacognitive abilities in children and non-human primates. She received her B.Sc.H. from Queen’s University, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at York University, studying information management. Heidi has held teaching positions at Bucknell University (in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania), York University and Western University, teaching a variety of psychology and statistics courses, and continuing her research on metacognitive abilities. More recently, Dr. Marsh was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, studying metacognitive information gathering behaviour in children and rodents.
Dr. Marsh’s research has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Perception, and Animal Cognition, and has been presented at several national and international conferences across Canada and the United States. She has also co-authored two book chapters, and is currently a guest-editor for a special issue of the journal Infant Behavior and Development. Her research has been recognized both at the institutional level, including York University’s top Dissertation Prize, and at the national level, receiving the Canadian Psychological Association’s Certificate of Academic Excellence. Her work has also garnered funding from both provincial and federal governments, including an NSERC Post-doctoral Fellowship, for which she was rated second overall in the Psychology Division. Dr. Marsh’s research has been featured in several media outlets, including an interview on CBC Radio’s national science program Quirks and Quarks. Heidi is also a passionate educator, and has embraced innovation and scholarship in her teaching, both as an instructor and as a coach and mentor for her academic colleagues.
Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Dr. Heidi Marsh.
Eileen De Courcy
Associate Vice President, Teaching & Learning
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Humber’s migration from FirstClass to Exchange concluded June 2013. And as discussed during the cutover, FirstClass will be shut down this year.
Information Technology Services will be permanently shutting down FirstClass, Humber’s legacy e-mail and calendaring tool, on September 30th.
If you have not already done so, please retrieve any FirstClass data you wish to keep. Once shut down, data on FirstClass will not be accessible.
Note that, due to the proprietary nature of FirstClass, data (contacts, email, etc.) must be migrated manually; there is no reliable migration tool.
Please use the remaining six months to move any FirstClass data you wish to keep. FirstClass will be forever shut down September 30, 2015.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at X5290.
On March 26, 2015, The Business School Placement Centre hosted a personal branding workshop that provided students with the strategies to effectively market themselves and secure their dream jobs.
The vibrant guest speaker was Nellie Vieira, Founder and President of Forrest & Associates. Ms. Vieira is a certified professional coach who provides communication, branding and negotiation workshops to prominent industry leaders. With over 20 years of experience in conducting these workshops, Ms. Vieira gave a very powerful and motivating presentation to a room of eager students. At the end of her presentation, Ms. Vieira was greeted with a lineup of students seeking her advice and expertise in personal branding.
The workshop focused on how to establish your personal brand, and how to let that brand come through in an interview. Students were engaged throughout the presentation and were able to ask questions and participate in a discussion to understand how to use personal branding when meeting with potential employers.
