Congratulations to all our employees celebrating Career Milestones in March 2022.

The following employees are celebrating their 1, 5, 10, and 15-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.

Enhancing Institutional EDI Knowledge of Disability and Academic Accessibility: 

• Students may miss assignment deadlines or tests/exams. For students with disabilities, it could be due to an unpredictable flare-up of their condition outside of their control. 

• It can be difficult for faculty to balance academic rigor and accountability for what students are to learn, with a fair and manageable process for those who miss required tests/exams and assignments. 

• Consider creating a contingency supplemental assignment or alternate version of each test/exam that can be used during the semester as needed.  

 Visit our ALS Information for Faculty website to learn more about accommodating students with disabilities. 

 Please email us at accessible-learning@humber.ca with suggestions for key accessibility-related topics that you would like us to address through the Communiqué. 

I am pleased to share that Humber will be providing in-person opportunities for graduating students to celebrate their achievements in June. 

Eligible students may choose one of the following in-person options to mark the occasion: 

• In-person convocation ceremonies from June 14 to 17 will be held at the Toronto Congress Centre (North Building). Ceremonies will be held over the four days, at 10 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and at 10 a.m. on Friday. A follow-up email will be sent requesting an RSVP for the appropriate ceremony. If an RSVP is not received, by the deadline, the graduate will receive an invitation to another in-person option (outlined below); or 

• In-person photo opportunity on campus for graduates who wish to attend a smaller event while still marking this important moment. This event will be held in August and details will follow.  

Credentials will be sent to graduates by courier prior to the events. 

Graduation portrait photography is available and information about fees and availability can be found at https://mygradphotoshumber.com. 

We look forward to marking this important occasion with graduates in the way they are comfortable.  

Additional details about convocation will be shared in the coming weeks.  

Sincerely, 

Rhonda Harrison 
Convocation Chair 

It is with bittersweetness we announce, that after 45 years of service at Humber College, the H-Drive has put in its paperwork to retire as of June 29, 2022.

The H-Drive has worked under all Humber Presidents; an achievement that not many can claim. Back in 1977, when the H-drive was just the idea of personal storage in the form of floppy disks, it was part of a very small ITS team. Over the years, that team has grown to over one hundred employees. Throughout that time, the H-Drive evolved to become a reliable source of networked file storage. 

In 2017, H-Drive took on an apprentice/partner named OneDrive. OneDrive brought emerging technologies to Humber College in the form of cloud storage. The cloud comes with many benefits like the ability to share files, co-authoring, version history and perhaps one of its strongest advantages – portability. OneDrive also allocated substantially more storage space with each client having 1TB of space, as opposed to the 500MB that H-Drive offered.

For the last few years, H-Drive and OneDrive worked in parallel. Once H-Drive recognized that OneDrive had so many advantages, it knew the time to pass the baton had arrived. 

So, we bid a fond farewell to our beloved H-Drive. As of June 29, 2022, the H-Drive will no longer be available. H-Drive requested no party or fanfare but did ask that everyone move their files/folders to their OneDrive long before June 29, 2022.

Departmental training will be available to help with the transition, so stay tuned. You can also contact the IT Support Centre at 416.675.6622 x8888, or chat at humber.ca/techtalk, or sign up for 1:1 Virtual Coaching for OneDrive.