The Math & Writing Centre is pleased to announce that we now offer in-person appointments on most days. Please let students know that they can now request in-person tutoring sessions as well as online ones.

Students can register at https://humber.mywconline.com and select the in-person schedules that suit their purpose:

• Lakeshore Campus In-person Math Tutor
• Lakeshore Campus In-person Writing Tutor
• North Campus In-person Math Tutor
• North Campus In-person Writing Tutor

For help booking an in-person appointment, students can also visit our Virtual Front Desk.

Please note that all visitors to the Math & Writing Centre locations will be admitted by appointment only, and that all tutors and students will be required to wear a mask.

At the North Campus, students can visit us on the 3rd floor of the LRC. At the Lakeshore Campus, we are in the F Building in room F201.

We look forward to welcoming students back to our MWC spaces!

Help us promote it!

At Humber, student success and retention are institutional priorities; understanding our students is essential to provide focus for student success initiatives. Every year, 3 in 4 incoming students successfully complete their first year. However, 1 in 4 leave the college within the first year. It is imperative that Humber is able to identify students at risk of attrition and initiate timely interventions.

The Humber Student Success Survey (HSSS) is one means of identifying students at risk. The survey is administered each year to students in all semesters. The four purposes of the survey are:

• To understand our diverse student population in terms of sociodemographic and other factors (e.g., culture and ethnicity, sexual identity, disabilities) so that we can assess the extent to which we are meeting their needs;
• To understand students’ academic and career goals and the extent to which we are meeting them;
• To identify students who may be at risk of attrition; and
• To gain a broad understanding of students’ support needs to allow for service planning and resource allocation.

All students will receive their personal survey through email on Monday, November 1. The survey will remain open until Monday, November 15.

Please help us to ensure a strong response to this survey by encouraging students in all years and full-time programs to complete the survey so that we can continue to make a positive impact in their success!

Thank you in advance for your support!

Humber Press is pleased to announce the release of Polytechnic Education: A Vision for Ontario.

Polytechnic Education: A Vision for Ontario is a volume of essays on polytechnics in Ontario. Ontario polytechnics are thriving and graduates are in demand. The case for formalizing polytechnics is about modernizing the post-secondary education system to leverage the differentiation that is evolving organically.

Polytechnic institutions act as invaluable innovation resources for Canadian businesses. Through applied research, polytechnics are well-positioned to help companies and communities move forward and put ideas into action. The work we as educators and administrators do is more important than ever, given the impacts of technology and globalization in driving our knowledge and innovation economy.

The essays will:

• provide a working definition of polytechnics in Ontario;
• articulate the benefits and polytechnic value proposition; and
• discuss challenges and implications going forward.

Read it now—eBook available online or through Humber Libraries, Polytechnic Education: A Vision for Ontario.

This book has been published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which allows the material to be copied and redistributed in any format for a noncommercial purpose such as education. 

The Orientation Team within Student Success and Engagement (SSE) is excited to announce that Orientation will be in-person for the coming winter term! Thank you to our academic faculty and campus partners for supporting Orientation in all the forms it has taken for the past several semesters. We are excited to work with you all to plan and deliver programming to support student success.

Although we are returning to in-person program delivery, we will also continue to share the incredible online resources that the Humber community has created over the past year to support system navigation and promote creative virtual engagement.

Here is the outline for Winter 2022 Orientation:

• December: We will launch our video-based Online Orientation Blackboard module, available to all incoming students for the entirety of the winter term. This module will strengthen students' knowledge of the supports and resources that are available to help them succeed at Humber while also welcoming them to take part in the in-person Orientation components we are so excited to offer.
   
• January 6 to 7: We will host Academic Orientation with our Meet Your Faculty sessions. These sessions will be in-person, on campus. We will be reaching out directly to Faculty in the next few weeks regarding more information and the next steps.
   
• January 1 to-31: Orientation, working with our Campus Partners, will offer a full month of Welcome Events for students. Our programming will focus on well-being and social connection, and we will continue to promote services and resources available to students.

We welcome feedback from all our partners and appreciate the continued support from the college community.

If you have not previously been involved with Orientation but would like to partner with us in welcoming students in person for Winter 2022, please reach out to orientation@humber.ca.

Best,