A friendly reminder that feedback for the candidates for the position of UofGH Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer are due by 4 p.m. on December 16, 2021. Please send your feedback to provost@uoguelph.ca. Your comments will be dealt with in strict confidence.
Please note that the ramp by EX Entrance and Tim Hortons at North Campus will be closed for renovations in the New Year. A temporary ramp will be made available while the renovations are taking place. A schedule will be provided in the New Year.
The Ontario government is providing funding for Humber College’s Excellence in Mental Health Leadership and Mental Wellness for Front-line Health Care Professionals micro-credential programs.
Funding through the Ontario Micro-Credentials Challenge Fund will help Humber build on its robust catalogue of micro-credentials and continuous professional learning, with new offerings that support front-line workers.
The Hon. Jill Dunlop, Ontario's Minister of Colleges and Universities was joined by Christine Hogarth, MPP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore at Humber's Lakeshore Campus, to announce that the province is investing $15 million for 250 new rapid training programs to create industry-relevant micro-credentials at colleges, universities, Indigenous Institutes and private career colleges.
As of Monday, December 20, 2021, Guided Learning will no longer be available on the Human Resources Management System (HRMS).
When the HRMS went live, we had introduced Guided Learning, an in-app learning solution that provided you with step-by-step process walkthrough instruction via pop-up messages, along with other in-app tips. It has been an essential learning tool that worked alongside our HRMS Knowlege Base (KB) to provide you with up-to-date and on-demand learning material on everything related to the HRMS.
After two and half years of using the HRMS, we have witnessed employees, from core users to occasional users, embrace and develop exceptional capabilities in using the system. We have seen high levels of adoption and comfort in using the HRMS seamlessly while leveraging the knowledge found on the HRMS KB instead of that found through Guided Learning.
With that in mind, we have decided to sunset Guided Learning and put our efforts into improving our online resources and on-demand learning material found on the HRMS KB. As HRMS continuously evolves, we will continue to build and maintain the HRMS KB to support system changes with new learning material and helpful resources.
In addition, to the HRMS KB, knowledge and support for the HRMS can also be accessed through the HR Support Centre.
Please continue to periodically check the HRMS KB for up-to-date information.
Thank you.
Humber College is committed to the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. The Employment Equity Act was passed in 1986. Recognizing that "systemic discrimination" was responsible for most of the inequality found in employment, the Abella Royal Commission on Equality in Employment outlined a systemic response and chose the term "Employment Equity" to describe the process.
The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion (Centre) invites all full-time and non-full-time employees to complete the Employment Equity Questionnaire (EEQ). The information that you provide in the EEQ is kept confidential and only reported in aggregate form for Employment Equity purposes. In other words, the reported data does not contain any personal identification.
The Centre invites the Humber Community to read the 2020 Employment Equity Report (PDF). Deep thanks to all employees who have completed the EEQ. Having up-to-date knowledge of our workforce representation will allow the College to identify where underrepresentation exists, and to target its efforts toward removing barriers that may exist in the College’s employment systems.
All full-time and non-full-time employees are encouraged to complete the EEQ. Employees are also welcome to update their responses, as needed, to the EEQ. Please note - the completion of Humber’s Employment Equity Questionnaire is voluntary.
Please visit the Centre's website to learn more about Humber’s Employment Equity Program (EEP) and to access Frequently Asked Questions pertaining to the EEP.
The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion thanks you for helping to build a more inclusive Humber.
After 31 years of dedicated service to Humber, Don Henriques will be retiring December 31st of this year.
As a dedicated member of the Campus Services family, Don held multiple roles within our department (most notably General Manager, Food Services and for the past 10 years, Manager Operations, Campus Services) always leading ethically with calmness and kindness.
Don’s contributions to the college and to our department are many, in recent years, Don played key roles in achieving fair trade certification for the college, implementing the pay what you can Soupbar in partnership with IGNITE and the Faculty of Business, coach men’s extramural basketball through Athletics, and, according to legend, as the Lakeshore Residence Manager he purchased incredibly durable goldenrod yellow and olive green furniture for the Lakeshore Residence lounges.
Don has been a strong supporter of the healthy and inclusive community strategy, and led the change from LinX Lounge 19+ years of age only to an all ages Café LinX, contributing significantly to a healthier and inclusive space for both students and staff to gather. Over the years, Don collaborated with a variety of campus partners and vendors to contribute to the broader college sustainability strategy, including implementing systems for better efficiency and less waste. During the pandemic, Don oversaw the creation of the Humber Dining Plan Office management which included supporting the integration of dining plan services into ONECard, became a license Realtor and assumed property management responsibilities for Humber’s Lakeshore Commercial Properties, collaborated in the implementation of the new OZZI O2GO Reusable Container program in partnership with IGNITE and the Office Of Sustainability, and worked with the Facilities Management Teams in the design concepts of numerous exciting new food service projects including a Zero Waste Barrett CTI 5th Floor Events and Conference Center.
Don’s impact on the Humber community has been broad, both in establishing student-friendly systems and professional relations with many colleagues and partners in the community. Many have been impacted by Don’s thoughtfulness, loyalty, and generosity of spirit. The Campus Services Team and Humber community will not be the same without him.
Please join us in wishing Don all the best in this well-deserved next chapter.
Paul Iskander
Director, Campus Services
I am very pleased to announce that Christina Meredith is Humber's new Associate Dean of Pathways in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Christina will be responsible for providing leadership to the programs within the Pathways department, including General Arts and Sciences, Dual Credit and Academic Upgrading.
Christina joins Humber from Sheridan College where, most recently, she held the position of Associate Dean Student Success and Wellness. In her role at Sheridan, Christina was responsible for leading the broader Student Experience and Enrolment Management portfolio, and for providing strategic leadership and direction for services and programs related to Career Counselling, Student Advisement, Accessible Learning, the Student Health Centres and Wellness and Counselling services across three campuses. Christina also has extensive experience in teaching and supporting universal design principles with an emphasis on advancing inclusion.
Over the course of her career, Christina has leveraged her background in critical social work, higher education leadership and social justice education to create pathways programming for students who have been historically marginalized and underserved. Christina holds a PhD in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto, an MSW in Advanced Critical Social Work Practice from the University of Victoria, and an MA in Sociology from York University.
Christina will start in her new position at Humber on January 17, 2022. Please join me in welcoming Christina to Humber.
Vera Beletzan
Senior Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning
Each December, the Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellness typically donates non-perishable food, health & hygiene, and household items in support of Ernestine's Women's Shelter.
As campus access is still limited, we are supporting this important community partner through monetary donations again this year, and have set-up a Canada Helps page with a goal of raising $2,000.
We'd like to extend the invitation to the entire Humber College community. The holiday season can bring with it added stress and anxiety for survivors of gender-based violence, and your donations will help ensure that Ernestine's can continue to provide support to all the women and children in the shelter and out in the community.
If you have the means, please take a moment to contribute what you can (tax receipts are provided). Every little helps!
Please visit our Canada Helps Page before January 1, 2022, to donate.
Thank you in advance!
Your friends in the Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellness.
What We Do
Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter is a community-based feminist organization run by women that provides support and shelter for women and children escaping abuse and violence. Ernestine’s is a 32-bed emergency shelter with 14 private bedrooms.
We provide a home for the women and their children – who stay with us from six months to over one year – until we find appropriate housing for them. During their stay, we provide them with all the necessities they might need (new bedding, clothes, school supplies, toiletries, baby supplies, prescriptions not covered by OHIP, loaded Presto cards, and anything else they might need).
In the last year, Ernestine’s provided shelter and support to 52 adults and 33 children, who called Ernestine’s their home.
In addition to shelter clients, we support over 600 women and children from across the GTA through our Outreach Program. We provide counselling services and programs as well as access to the shelter’s on-site donation rooms and food bank to our Outreach clients.
In 2020, Ernestine’s offered lifelines to 269 adults and 355 children in the community through our Outreach Programs. In the same year, 252 adults and 344 children were serviced as a result of the 735 times Ernestine’s food support services were accessed. This is a 70% increase in number of families who received food support.
We provide a range of holistic services to our shelter and Outreach clients. Our services and programs include 24-hour crisis assistance, individual and group-based counselling support, Child & Youth programs, as well as legal, housing, and immigration support and advocacy.
Since we opened our doors in 1983, we have supported over 15,000 women and children.
We want to say thank you!
The CICE team and students would like to thank all the faculty who have welcomed a CICE student into their classroom this semester. Through your exceptional guidance and support, you have helped enhance a CICE student's college experience!
Thank you to: Modesta Colalillo, Dahonick Tia, Rana Dhaliwal-Singh, Maureen Dorey, Cory Carter, Lauren Cheong, Nicole Chuchmach, Jacqueline Bell, Mark Achtenberg, Anke Foller-Carroll, Michael Glassbourg, Noni Kaur, Darren Hupp, Bora Kim, Leonhard Lechner, Courtney Maki, Christyn Oda, Antonietta Perretta, Igino Teolis, Carmine Spadafora, Kevin Smith, Sheila Pohle, Danielle Pomeroy, Linda Shelly and Lori Short-Zamudio.
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Charity Chan (she/her/they) as the Acting Associate Dean, Music & Fine Arts in the Faculty of Media & Creative Arts.
Charity is a curator, producer, educator, arts manager, pianist, composer, and musicologist with over two decades of experience in arts and culture and not-for-profit organizations. Her work, which is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, has taken her across Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
Charity’s experience as an arts manager includes positions at the Aga Khan Museum, Luminato Festival Toronto, the Art of Time Ensemble, McGill University and, most recently, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto. As an educator, Charity is particularly interested in interdisciplinary artistic creation, global improvisation, social aesthetics and the ecology of arts practice and pedagogy, lecturing extensively throughout North America and Europe.
A graduate of McGill University’s Bachelor of Music program and Mills College’s (Oakland, CA) MFA program, Charity has held several fellowships including the Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she also conducted doctoral studies, and at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago. Her first day at Humber will be December 15, 2021.
Please join me in welcoming Charity to Humber.
Guillermo Acosta, Senior Dean
Faculty of Media & Creative Arts
