The Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellness EDI Committee wishes the Humber Community a Happy Lunar New Year. 2023 is the year of the Rabbit. Be sure to check out the display cases outside the M200 and B104 offices at North Campus.
The Math & Writing Centre is pleased to present free services for all Humber and Guelph-Humber English language learners!
The following services are available to students:
Conversation Circles – Students can join a tutor and several English language learners for one hour to practice conversation and listening and speaking skills.
Winter 2023 Schedule:
Conversation 1-on-1 Sessions
Students can book an appointment with a tutor to talk one on one for 30 minutes or one hour to practice speaking, to go over readings, to review Ted Talks and much more.
Reading Circles
In our new offering, students can join a tutor and several English language learners for one hour to practice reading comprehension and analysis as well as building vocabulary and general fluency.
Winter 2023 Schedule:
Questions? Staff and students can write to us at writingcentre@humber.ca or talk to our Virtual Front Desk.
Dear Humber,
Further to its launch in November, Humber’s BRING IT recruitment campaign continued to roll out in December and January.
Targeted to domestic direct students, the goal of the bold and motivational campaign is to increase applications and enrolment to Humber and spur awareness and interest in the college.
The advertising campaign is in market in many formats including online, on apps, on social media, on digital billboards, in transit stations, buses and subways, and in movie theatres.
Earlier this week, vinyl murals reflective of the Bring It creative created by Ben Johnston were installed at North and Lakeshore campus (see photos above). In the spring, Johnston will install an outdoor mural at the Lakeshore Campus.
With more than 1,000 assets in the field and more than 5.4 million impressions to date, initial campaign results show that we are exceeding post-secondary benchmarks across many categories. TikTok and Google search are the top performing platforms so far.
We will continue to update about the Bring It campaign throughout the winter term. Please contact me directly (by Teams or email) if there are any questions.
Thank you,
Andrew Leopold
Director, Marketing and Communications
The winter scholarships are open for students and will be closing on Friday, February 3.
Please help students reach their full potential by spreading the word and encouraging them to apply for scholarships. You can also let students know that the Advancement and Alumni team is here to help them every step of the way through the application process.
For more information about student scholarships at Humber, please visit our Student Scholarships website or contact student.awards@humber.ca.
Thank you,
The Advancement and Alumni Team
P.S. If you are interested in learning more about how you can establish or support a named scholarship, please contact marlene.valerio@humber.ca.
Background
Humber is committed to continuous quality improvement and engaging students in this process. At the end of January, the College will administer the online ‘Ontario Colleges Student Experience Survey’ (OCSES) that has replaced the previous ministry KPI Student Satisfaction survey. This survey will measure student experiences related to teaching and learning quality, program related knowledge and skills, work integrated learning (if applicable), and student services and resources. The results of the survey will allow the college to identify strengths and areas of improvement.
Administration
All students in full-time, funded programming enrolled in semesters 2 to 8 will receive a personal survey link on Monday, January 30. The survey will remain open until Friday, February 17 at midnight. Key messaging will be communicated to students by Humber to promote the survey and encourage completion. In order to achieve an optimal response to this survey, facilitators/instructors will be present in classes selected by the Faculties to explain the purpose of the survey to students, provide direction for survey completion and allot class time to complete the survey (approximately 10-15 minutes).
For questions about the survey, please contact Jean O’Donnell at jean.o’donnell@humber.ca.
Online courses are accessible when students can equally access and participate in the learning experience.
The following design elements should be considered when assessing the accessibility of your course:
More information and specific examples as well as resources
Visit our ALS Information for Faculty website to learn more about the Accommodation Letter process.
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.
Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic Education (JIPE), Humber Press, Office of Research & Innovation (ORI), is accepting new submissions on a rolling basis.
Have you participated in or conducted a research/innovation study? Do you have research you want to share? Every research project, study or initiative is a journey, and we invite you to share your journey by making a submission to JIPE.
JIPE publishes original research papers, review articles, brief reports, book reviews and our “micro-dissemination” options: innovation spotlights and essays. JIPE welcomes research stories and manuscripts from seasoned and emerging researchers from across the polytechnic and community college sectors, both within and outside Canada. Students/research assistants are also encouraged and invited to make a submission under the supervision of a faculty member.
JIPE is accepting submissions on a rolling basis to better meet the needs of researchers. Rolling submissions have many benefits, such as more timely dissemination of the research and a higher likelihood of the research study appearing in search results.
Interested in learning more? Read the JIPE Submissions Handbook and visit JIPE.ca. Questions can be directed to humberpress@humber.ca.
As part of Humber’s sustainability plan, JIPE will only be published electronically to reduce paper consumption. JIPE is an online, open-access journal for double-blind peer-reviewed submissions/manuscripts that mobilize knowledge and insights generated by the global polytechnic community. The articles published in this open journal are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Are you a woman-identifying individual interested in entrepreneurship?
Join a seven-week online program that supports woman-identifying individuals in finding the right customers to create revenue in the long and short term, develop and create the right product portfolio, and learn all the basic disciplines to build a business.
Program dates: Tuesdays between January 24 and March 7 from 4 to 6 p.m. (virtual delivery)
To learn more and register, please visit https://humber.ca/cfe/programs/women-entrepreneurs.html.
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Humber Galleries is pleased to announce that Notes for Tomorrow, a travelling group exhibition is now open and on view at L Space Gallery (in the L Cottage at Lakeshore Campus) with additional work in the A Building Concourse.
This exhibition was conceived by Independent Curators International (ICI), and features artworks selected by 30 curators based in 25 countries around the world to reflect on a new global reality ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this cultural moment of transition, each work is a source of inspiration from the recent past and a guiding perspective for the future.
Many of the artworks in the exhibition address spirituality as a grounding mechanism, sharing ways to make sense of the world when so much is in doubt. Some engage with specific mythology, while others reveal political structures that may or may not still be standing. The formation of monuments is questioned, and their removal is all but certain. The exhibition addresses art’s potential in the construction of collective memory in a global era. We learn the importance of sustaining and sharing different forms of knowledge, prompting us to re-imagine our conceptions of the future.
Notes for Tomorrow was curated from selections by alumni of ICI’s Curatorial Intensive, a professional development program founded in 2010 on principles of international exchange, inclusivity, and knowledge-sharing. With the ever-present backdrop of a global pandemic, ICI turned to these curators to question and reassess values and relevance in contemporary culture, and asked each of them to share an artwork they believe is vital to be seen today.
Location: L Space Gallery (L Cottage, Lakeshore Campus)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
More information is available on our website.
