Goal 3:

Humber is committed to ensuring that the Humber community provides faculty with the resources needed to support internationalization efforts across the campus. The Centre for Teaching and Learning supports these initiatives through the delivery of the Culturally Inclusive Educator Certificate along with other workshops and resources to support faculty. Schools have developed processes to recruit and support faculty participating in international initiatives, and a number of best practices documents and policy and procedure documents have been developed to engage and support faculty initiatives. These processes have been shared at internationalization committee as best practices for engaging faculty in overseas activities.

Over 150 courses were identified as having an international, intercultural or global perspective and have been identified with an “I” attribute in the student registration system.

Beyond these efforts faculty have had opportunities for international professional development abroad through international educations weeks, and the Leave for Change program. It was also another successful year for the Culturally Inclusive Educator Certificate as training was taken beyond the Humber community.

3D Animation Faculty-Led Trip to UK

In May 2017, Cory Avery, Program Coordinator – 3D Animation, Art & Design, led a group of eight enthusiastic students to the UK to visit our partner institution, the University of Gloucestershire. Students not only had a chance to join classes and visit famous studios in the area, but also took the opportunity to tour many attractions.

International Week at Saxion University

Two Business School faculty, Maria Racanelli and Melanie Shulman, took part in "International Week" at Saxion University in the Netherlands from March 13th-17th, 2017. Faculty took part in a series of events at two Saxion campuses in Deventer (Maria) and Enschede (Melanie).

Along with an international roster of faculty, Maria and Melanie delivered workshops to students on topics ranging from international marketing to corporate social responsibility. The event culminated in a case study where students, with help from the visiting faculty, worked on solutions to a problem affecting an actual local company. A representative from the company came to judge the students' final proposals.

Culturally Inclusive Educator Certificate

The Culturally Inclusive Educator Certificate has had another successful year. Since our launch of the Certificate online, the team has been able to deliver the Certificate to Humber faculty as well as international partners. This past year, we offered both in-class and online custom delivery of the Certificate to 10 faculty from Hillsborough College in Tampa Bay, Florida as well as 30 faculty from Loyalist Community College in Belleville, Ontario. Earlier this year, Carol Appleby and Bianca Sorbera presented at the Community Colleges for International Development’s 41st Annual Conference in Houston, Texas.

The Culturally Inclusive Educators Certificate was also recognized by The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STHLE) and received distinction and accreditation by STHLE’s Educators Developer Caucus (EDC). The accreditation process and goal of STHLE’s Framework is to enhance Teaching and Learning Quality.

Sanjukta Das, a Business Placement

Sanjukta Das, a Business Placement Advisor at the Humber School of Business, could have spent her annual vacation relaxing at the beach, sightseeing abroad or reading a good book. But, instead, she decided to convert her three weeks of relaxation into an exciting, meaningful and life-changing experience.

Working with the Leave for Change program, Sanjukta travelled to Mongolia and volunteered at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) as a Youth Employability Skills Training Advisor.

Leave for Change is a program that is a part of Uniterra and is managed by two non-profit organizations: World University Service Canada (WUSC) and Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI). Humber College is partnered with Leave for Change and sponsors full-time Humber employees to participate and volunteer their expertise around the globe.

During her tenure at MUST, Sanjukta conducted nine workshops with final semester students. She taught them marketing, interviewing and networking skills, as well as how to transition from university to the job market.

Along with meeting an amazing cohort of eager, bright students, Sanjukta met with twenty Mongolian recruiters from the government and private sectors. She shared with the group her knowledge of hiring best practices and techniques in Canada.

By far, the highlight of Sanjukta's stay in Mongolia was the MUST Networking Breakfast Event. The event saw HR heads from twelve different organizations, including several banks, come to the MUST campus to meet graduating students. Sanjukta was able to see her hard work and instruction pay off, as students mingled and introduced themselves to business professionals. In fact, eight students gained employment out of the conversations they had at the event.

Overall, the event felt like déjà vu to Sanjukta, as it was very similar to networking events held at the Business School.