Award Recipients

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, the Humber Arboretum has been committed to enriching student education through nature-based learning. Together, the Humber Arboretum has developed curriculum-aligned, nature-based community placement opportunities for students in the Early Childhood Education and Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs. The team also remodeled the Learning by Leading™ program ran in partnership with the University of California Davis, to highlight Humber's commitment to accessibility, sustainability, and community wellbeing.  

In addition, the team has planted over 20,000 flowering annuals, further exemplifying Humber's reputation as a Certified Bee Campus, and as of 2023, the Sustainable Urban Beekeeping Certificate program will be celebrating its fifth year! A new Honeybee Hub is also scheduled to open in Summer 2023. The team also ran Humber Arboretum Summer Camp for over 450 kids throughout July and August last year, and was responsible for removing over 1,800kg (3,966lbs) of invasive plants in 2022.

The Student Wellness and Equitable Learning (SWEL) department developed the SWEL Curricular Framework, a structured and intentional approach to supporting student learning and well-being. The SWEL Curricular framework demonstrates an ongoing commitment to accessible education and building a healthy and inclusive community, key pillars of Humber’s Strategic Plan. The framework is a respectable and credible achievement in winning the 2023 CACUSS Innovation Award, a nationally recognized prize for creating a promising educational practice that exemplifies innovation and excellence. ​ 

In addition to dedicating time and effort to developing the SWEL Curricular Framework, the SWEL Team served a total of 16,402 Humber & Guelph-Humber learners from April 2022 to March 2023. The SWEL team’s ability to reimagine work while offering seamless high-quality service to a tremendous portion of the Humber/ University of Guelph-Humber community speaks to the overachieving nature of the team and their dedication to the well-being of our learners.

The Longo Faculty of Business Work Integrated Learning Centre team demonstrates enthusiasm, flexibility, interest, and dedication to supporting all stakeholders, especially our students. They support thousands of students to achieve Work Integrated Learning success each academic year. They have almost perfect placement rates and have thousands of employer partnerships across the 52 business programs that they support.  

They have spearheaded both virtual and on-campus career fairs and recruitment events hosting a large volume of engaged employers and hundreds of eager and interested students. They are seen as the leaders in the college for attracting students to on-campus job-search related events and have become a valuable resource for other faculties. They have been very successful in recovering from the effects of the pandemic concerning Work Integrated Learning and have pivoted quickly to on-campus activity demonstrating sincere support and strong student engagement. 

The CBIE Regional Meeting Volunteer Organizing Committee produced the most successful Canadian Bureau for International Education regional meeting that has ever been held in Canada. CBIE is Canada’s largest and most influential international education organization. This meeting shone a light on Humber as a national model for internationalization and allowed Humber faculty, staff, and students to grow in their understanding and knowledge of international education on campus.    

The two-day event welcomed 286 participants from 14 colleges, 15 universities, Federal government departments, recruitment agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and corporate partners. This represents over twice the number of participants than had ever been registered at a regional meeting. This event brought tremendous focus on Humber’s internationalization work and provided an opportunity for Humber faculty, staff, and students to network with colleagues from across the province.​

The implementation of the cutting-edge, shared Library Services Platform, Page 1+, across 20 Ontario college libraries has been transformational for library workflows, collaboration across the college system and different campus services. It has improved productivity, reduced duplication, and achieved efficiencies. Page 1+ has enhanced student and staff experience with library services and resources. This ground-breaking platform empowers students with equitable, seamless access to the vast array of library resources they need to be successful. It provides a meaningful step towards supporting quality online learning and Humber’s digital transformation. ​ 

The Humber Page 1+ implementation team has demonstrated leadership in the college system through its integrations with other systems. Additionally, the development of deep internal relationships across departments has created an atmosphere of collegiality that will be long lasting and set the college up for future innovations and collaborative work.

The previous Continuing Education (CE) business model at Humber was very decentralized and each Faculty had unique characteristics and situations. It was recognized for years that consistency was needed and would be part of any new systems implementation. This meant that business process rethinking was required before any systems configuration. As part of this business process work, over 70 issues were identified that could impact flexible registration strategy, policy, operations or Destiny One implementation. ​ 

Over 162 processes, 40 process maps, and 293 validations occurred during this project. All this work was used to gather requirements for the supporting technology Destiny One. The future state business process maps were signed by all business stakeholders and used for system configuration. As of August 2021, 24,252 learners have enrolled in CPL Courses representing over 11,417 individuals. Since its inception, over 85% of CPL participants have stated that our new course registration process was "clear and easy." This number is a direct testament to the work, passion, and commitment of the Continuous Professional Learning Central Support - Destiny One Team.