Counselling Services is excited to announce the return of the Healthy Minds for Stressful Times group for Fall 2022.

This group will provide students with:

• Tools and strategies to cope with stress, anxiety and feeling overwhelmed
• Emotional support

Details:

• Where: Zoom (contact rose.anthony@humber.ca for the link)
• When: Every Thursday, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., beginning October 6 until December 8
• For: Students who are feeling overwhelmed and/or experiencing stress and anxiety

Important Information:

• This is an open group – no pre-registration is required. As of now, there is no cap on numbers but subject to change if required
• Students can come for as few or as many sessions as they would like.
• The room will be locked at 1:45 p.m. SHARP as we do not have time to review curriculum for late arrivers
• Students will be asked to keep their video on in the group as interaction is a huge part of this group (involves break out rooms and skill practice)

Please promote this group to your students by: 

• Posting about Healthy Minds for Stressful Times on Blackboard (view attached poster)
• Making an announcement about Healthy Minds for Stressful Times at the beginning of class

Contact: Rose Anthony at rose.anthony@humber.ca

Healthy Minds for Stressful Times works from an anti-oppression framework. We recognize that students face systemic oppression on the basis sexual and gender orientation, race, body size, class, disability, immigration status, country of origin, culture, age and religion. We are committed to creating an environment that celebrates diversity, and challenges all forms of oppression.

About the Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion (Centre) provides programs and services that recognize the intersectionality and interlocking of socially constructed identities. All Centre initiatives integrate a holistic framework that extend beyond binaries and addresses the simultaneity of the individual’s experiences. This intersectional and integrative approach, grounded in a practice of care, is woven throughout the Centre’s programs and services. The Centre ensures that equity, diversity and inclusion are instilled throughout Humber.

The Centre has the following programs:

1. Management of Human Rights & Harassment-Related Concerns
2. Human Rights, Education & Training
3. EDI Taskforce

I am excited to announce the appointment of Annetta Latham as the new Associate Dean, Film, Acting and Media Production, in the Faculty of Media & Creative Arts.  

Annetta is an academic and arts management professional with over twenty years’ experience in the culture and heritage sectors in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. She has significant expertise in cultural policy and strategic planning, festival and event management, and cultural production management, and is passionate about fostering engaging, transformative learning communities.

In her most recent role as an assistant professor in MacEwan University’s Arts and Cultural Management program, Annetta has served as department chair, developed articulation agreements with international institutions, led the creation of a new Bachelor of Fine Arts and an interdisciplinary fine arts program, and conducted research leading to the development of a mentorship program for graduates of MacEwan’s Faculty of Fine Art and Communication. She is the host and producer of Artful Conversations, a podcast created to augment MacEwan’s arts management curriculum.

Prior to MacEwan, Annetta taught at Christchurch Polytech Institute of Technology (New Zealand) and guest lectured at Robert Gordon University (Scotland). She maintains a freelance consultancy as a cultural sector manager, researcher, and policy and strategic planner.

Annetta is completing her PhD in Cultural Policy at Queen Margaret University, Scotland, where she is investigating the effects of the UK’s City of Culture bidding process on cultural-led regeneration. She holds a Master of Arts Management from the Australian Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Social Work and graduate diploma in Adolescent Health and Welfare from the University of Melbourne. Her first day at Humber will be January 9, 2023.

Please join me in welcoming Annetta to Humber.  

Guillermo Acosta
Senior Dean, Faculty of Media & Creative Arts

Hello Humber community,

Earlier this week, the Government of Canada declared Monday September 19th as a national holiday for federal government employees to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

The Government of Ontario has decided against a statutory holiday. Instead, Premier Ford said Ontario will mark September 19 as a provincial day of mourning and that Ontarians may observe a moment of silence at 1 p.m. on that day.

On Monday, Humber classes, work and operations will continue as regularly scheduled. The college will be observing a moment of silence at 1 p.m. and invite all members of the Humber community to join in silent reflection, if they choose. Managers and faculty members who are teaching during that time are asked to provide the opportunity for employees and students to participate in the moment of silence. An announcement will be made across Humber’s public address system to note the beginning and end of the moment of silence.