Celebrate and recognize the great work that your colleagues are doing. Nominate them for the Innovation of the Year Award 2023.
Purpose or goal
The purpose of the Innovation of the Year Awards is to recognize College employees who have designed and implemented a significant innovation that positively impacts the Humber student experience.
Eligibility
All employee groups (full and part-time faculty, administrators and support staff) are eligible for nomination.
Criteria
The merit of an innovation will be judged on the following criteria:
The Innovation must have a positive impact on the Humber student experience.
To make a submission, email the completed nomination form (attached) and forward supporting documents to falisha.rowe@humber.ca by Friday, March 8, 2023.
Applications for the new Leadership Initiative Fund (LIF) are open! Funding is available to students, or student groups, at Humber who wish to run an initiative or event on campus.
The LIF program recognizes the importance of student involvement and engagement in the creation of a vibrant campus community. This funding aims to support students whose initiatives or events will contribute to our institutional and community values. All funded projects must support the creation of a Healthy and Inclusive Community and submissions must fall under one of the three pillars:
Decisions for the awarding of funds are made by the LIF committee, which is made up of staff from the Department of Student Life and Equity, as well as IGNITE
For more information, please visit the Leadership Programs website.
Check out what we have in store this week. Enjoy freshly made meals and baked goods prepared by students in our culinary and baking programs.
In store this week:
Pricing and product availability are subject to change.
Hours of Operation
Monday to Thursday: 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Friday: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Simple, ingenious employee solutions make a big impact!
Humber’s Office of Research & Innovation (ORI) ran an inclusive innovation program for front-line employees over the summer and fall of 2022. ORI is pleased to announce that, following evaluation by an independent judging panel and review from Ginger Grant, PhD., Dean of Research and Innovation, the top-ranked finalists and special award recipients of the 2022 Butterfly Effect (BE) Challenge have been selected.
Note that, collectively these (often simple) solutions have resulted in annual savings of more than $150,000 of costs, almost 2.5 years of employee time, and the equivalent of two 45-foot mature pine trees worth of paper. The members of these ingenious teams will also be sharing their solutions with other employees to multiply their impact.
Top-ranked finalists:
Special Innovation Awards:
ORI Dean’s Special Award: Student Impact
External Panel & ORI Team Special Award: Hearts & Minds
Sustainability Spotlight Award
Simply Smart Spirit Award
Microsoft Automation Award
Innovation Sandbox Award
The BE Challenge team will be presenting the awards to the top-ranked finalists and special innovation award recipients in February.
About the Butterfly Effect Challenge:
The BE Challenge seeks to discover and celebrate Humber College’s front-line innovators. The Challenge looks for simple, low-cost or no-cost integration and/or automation solutions that have already been implemented by Humber’s support staff and non-managerial administrative staff. The solutions can improve both on-campus and remote work arrangements.
Humber’s front-line colleagues are continuously improving the Humber experience, but their ideas and solutions often remain hidden in plain sight. This initiative is part of a broader Inclusive Research & Innovation training program the Humber Office of Research & Innovation (ORI) has been piloting. ORI staff have been trained in the principles and processes of Inclusive Innovation, and they launched and managed The 2022 Butterfly Effect Challenge over the summer and fall.
Please reach out to the Humber Office of Research & Innovation team at be@humber.ca if you’re interested in learning more about the BE Challenge.
To provide a more efficient process for both the College and its clients, Financial Services has implemented a new electronic way to submit PCard (Purchase Card) requests and changes.
Effective immediately, all PCard requests and changes will be submitted using the PCard Request Change E-Form.
The link to the E-Form can also be found on the landing page at www.humber.ca/finance.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email mastercard@humber.ca or reach out to Kristen Catell (PCard Administrator/Administrative Manager).
Thank you.
Your on-campus student-run restaurant lab, The Humber Room, opens this week for lunch service.
Join us this week for our à la carte service and a different menu each day!
The Humber Room is a live learning lab for our students, and a culinary and service experience for guests. Our menu selection and service style change every week based on our curriculum. Enjoy your culinary experience led by our Culinary Management and Baking and Pastry Arts students, and service provided by Event and Hospitality Management students.
Hours of Operation
Tuesday - Friday
Doors open at 12:00 p.m.
Seating guests between 12 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Sevice ends by 1:30 p.m.
For group reservations of 10 guests or more, please email jessica.estrela@humber.ca.
IGNITE partners with Humber Advancement and Alumni to provide students with Learning Essentials Support, a financial support service designed to help cover the cost of program learning essential items, from $50 up to a maximum of $500 per academic year.
Examples of learning essential items that we support include, but are not limited to:
Applications open today!
Humber Galleries, in partnership with Humber’s Black Heritage 365 Committee, presents an artwork installation by Yung Yemi as part of Humber’s Black Heritage Month Celebration beginning on February 1.
Humber Galleries worked with the City of Toronto to bring Yung Yemi’s artwork to Humber Lakeshore for Nuit Blanche last October and is excited to bring another series of work by the artist to North Campus. The installation in the Learning Resource Commons will feature four large scale digital mixed media works which will be on display throughout the months of February and March.
About Yung Yemi
Adeyemi Adegbesan is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist whose practice aims to examine the intersectionality of Black identity. Reflecting on Black cultural ideologies from pre-colonial, colonial, present day and future timelines; across regions, religions, varying levels of income and political lines, Adegbesan examines the dichotomy of the richness of Black experiences with the imposed societal homogeneity of ‘Blackness’. Through his work Adegbesan pulls from these varying elements to create Afro-futuristic portraits that embody themes of history, fantasy, speculative futures, and spirituality.
Adeyemi is a self-taught artist whose practice incorporates photography, mixed media collage, murals and assemblage. He works out of his studio in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighborhood and has shown work in Canada and the United States. He has also worked with brands such as HBO, Instagram, and the Toronto Raptors on commercial collaborations.
Date & location:
When: February 1 – March 31, 2023
Where: Learning Resource Commons, North Campus
Cost: Free
Contact:
Melissa Poliah
melissa.poliah@humber.ca
The Staff Lounge is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Lunch is available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Monday, January 30 |
Texas BBQ chicken |
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Tuesday, January 31 |
Chicken parmigiana |
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Wednesday, February 1 |
Kung pao chicken |
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Thursday, February 2 |
Butter chicken |
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Friday, February 3 |
Fish and chips (sole) |
On Monday, January 30, Humber will launch the Ontario Colleges Student Experience Survey (OCSES) to all students in full-time, funded programming enrolled in semesters 2 to 8. This survey will assess students’ 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.
Students will receive a personal survey link through their Blackboard ‘Activity Stream’. From January 30 to February 10, survey facilitators will also visit selected classes to ensure survey completion. To encourage participation, participants will have the option to enter a draw for a chance to win one of ten $100 e-gift cards of their choice.
For questions about the survey, please contact Jean O’Donnell at jean.o’donnell@humber.ca.
Student's questions about the survey can be directed to iresearch@humber.ca.