It is with mixed emotions that we prepare to say farewell to Christina Alcena (she/her), currently the Interim Associate Director, Advising & Career Services for Student Success & Engagement. Christina is moving to Sheridan to join the senior leadership team of the Vice Provost, Student Experience & Enrolment Management as Director, Division of Students.

In her time here at Humber, Christina distinguished herself as an innovator and an agile strategic leader. She made significant contributions at the department level including the significant expansion of partnerships aiming to advance employment outcomes for, and the engagement in career conversations of, students from equity-deserving groups, mature and International students, grads and alumni. Under her leadership we saw significant growth in student and partner engagement in Career Month programming and a substantial increase in uptake of our services and usage of digital tools. Christina was also instrumental in securing new sources of funding in support of strengthening student employment outcomes.

Christina’s impact at Humber was felt beyond our own department with her expertise being leveraged in service of Humber strategic initiatives. During her tenure, Christina has played a critical role as a member of Humber’s EDI Task Force, has served as a member of the Humber Gallery Committee as well as the Black/African Employee Resource Group (ERG), and made great strides in advancing the Humber-Seneca Polytechnic Partnership. A core member of the Strategic Enrolment Management Student Success Committee she led key early intervention initiatives. And in partnership with the Faculty of Applied Sciences & Technology, and Sault College, she led the development of tailored supports for students studying in our three new Engineering Degrees. 

Christina was highly sought out as an expert, with respect to best practices in equity and inclusion and counts among her accomplishment significant movement on a number of equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives that aimed to transform climate for students and staff at Humber.  We are indebted to her for the growth in programming that centres the voices of equity-deserving students and staff, the advancement of practices in hiring and training that hopefully will move us closer to having our staff be more reflective of our student body, and for a legacy of more robust partnerships that better positions us to meet students’ evolving needs, with specific attention to inter-sectional identities and in response to the ever changing learning and employment context.

We thank Christina for her service to Humber, for her commitment to our students’ and staff’s success, and for leaving us the better for having known her. Christina’s last day at Humber is Friday, October 14. Plans for a farewell are in process so stay tune for those details. I invite you to join me in congratulating Christina on her new role. 

Chantal Joy
Associate Dean, Transition & Academic Support
Student Success and Engagement
Pronouns | She/Her/Hers (Info on Pronouns)

As was announced on September 23, the College Employer Council (CEC) and OPSEU academic employees bargaining teams representing full-time and partial-load faculty, instructors, librarians, and counsellors have a new collective agreement. Now, the ratification vote for the Full-time Support Collective Agreement has been confirmed by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB).

The dates of the vote are Wednesday, September 28 to Thursday, September 29. The vote starts at 9 a.m. on Wednesday and ends at 5 p.m. on Thursday.

The vote is by online secret ballot, and ballots with PINs will be delivered to employee email addresses, primarily college email address, as provided in your voter lists.

Please review the attached notices for the upcoming ratification vote.

Congratulations to all our employees celebrating Career Milestones in September!

The following employees are celebrating their 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30-year anniversary with Humber. We encourage you to reach out to your colleagues to congratulate them on their Career Milestones.

Although we do our best to ensure we don't miss anyone, sometimes it happens. If we have missed anyone on this list, our sincere apologies. Please let us know so we can correct our records and ensure the employee receives recognition.

Questions? Please email us at oe@humber.ca.

Due to the Office of the Senior Vice-President, Academic by November 28, 2022

It is the policy of The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (hereafter referred to as “Humber” or “the College") to recognize and honour selected exceptional individuals who have achieved distinguished status at the provincial, national, or international level, or who have made significant and important contributions to the College and/or the local community, through the bestowing of honorary credentials. View the Honorary Credentials Policy and Procedure in full.

Members of the College community are invited to submit nominees for consideration to honorary.degree@humber.ca using the Nomination for Honorary Degree form (Appendix A). Applications received by November 28, 2022 will be adjudicated and considered for presentation during a 2022 convocation ceremony (Spring or Fall).

If you have any questions about the policy, please contact Derek Stockley at derek.stockley@humber.ca or 416.675.6622 x3202.

Appendices:

• Appendix A: Honorary Credential Nomination Form
• Appendix B: Evaluation Criteria Rubric
• Appendix C: Selection Committee Membership