APPLICATION
for
ACADEMIC EMPLOYEES
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAVE
(SABBATICAL)
for the academic year
2022-2023
(Submission deadline: November 19, 2021 to the Office of the Senior Vice-President, Academic via email c/o sana.mahmood@humber.ca)

Professional Development Leave (CA, Article 20) permits a limited number of academic employees to pursue College-approved academic, administrative, technical, industrial or other activities where such activities will enhance the knowledge and skills of the teacher, counsellor or librarian upon returning to the College. 

Activities during a Leave can include, but are not limited to:

• Development of new professional or technical skills through practical experience to reflect changes in the work force;
• Development of materials such as text, software, visual materials required of a specific course or courses;
• Retraining for skills required in a different department of the College or to teach in another discipline;
• Instructional, individual or directed research related to an identified need; and
• Completion of formal academic studies.

For more information, please review the Academic Professional Development Leave Policy and the Academic Professional Development Leave Procedure.

1. Submit an application for a Professional Development Leave (Appendix A) to your immediate supervisor by October 31, 2021.
2. You are required to meet with your immediate supervisor to discuss the application/proposal and receive Dean/ Director sign-off by November 10, 2021.
3. The applications will be forwarded to the Office of the Senior Vice-President, Academic, c/o sana.mahmood@humber.ca by November 19, 2021. They are then reviewed and rank-ordered by seniority, as required by the Collective Agreement. A letter confirming receipt of application including the terms and conditions will be sent to applicants.
4. The Senior Vice President, Academic will recommend approval of rank-ordered Leaves to the President.
5. The President approves Leave requests and informs Human Resources of the employees who have been approved for a Leave.
6. The Senior Vice-President will inform (in writing) the employees who have been granted a Leave and indicate the requirements to be met during the Leave.
7. Applicant has 14 calendar days to sign back the letter.
8. The Senior Vice-President, Academic will notify in writing those who were not approved – reasons for the denial.
9. In accordance with 20.02 xv, the College will provide the Union Local the names of all applicants and the names of all successful applicants and the duration of the Leave granted

Appendix A: Professional Development Leave Request form

Note: your application for a Professional Development Leave must include the following information:

1. Name, Program, Division/Faculty.
2. Identify start and end dates for the Leave.
3. Describe the overall objectives of the Leave.
4. Provide a plan of the activities that you will undertake to achieve these objectives and the measurable outcomes to be achieved.
5. Identify how the objectives will benefit you, and how they will enhance your abilities upon return to the College.
6. Identify how the objectives will benefit student learning.
7. Identify the resources required from the College (if any).
8. Identify the resources provided by the faculty member (if any).
1. Identify whether there will be materials developed during the Leave and specify if these will or will not become the property of Humber College.
10. List and describe any paid employment (if any) that will be undertaken during the Leave period. Indicate the amount of time and remuneration associated with this employment.

Related Policies:
Intellectual Property Policy

Please contact derek.stockley@humber.ca if you have any questions. 

In 2018, Humber College and SEW-EURODRIVE entered a five-year partnership agreement designed to build awareness and provide training and applied research opportunities related to Industry 4.0 technologies, a critical aspect of advanced manufacturing.  

Humber’s Office of Research & Innovation (ORI) continues to support and encourage faculty, researchers, and students to get involved and participate in applied research opportunities with our valued industry partners. 

Recently, researchers at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology (FAST), with the sponsorship of SEW-EURODRIVE, worked in a project collaboration space at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation at Humber College to design a CT-based energy harvesting circuit that powers an SEW-EURODRIVE sensor board used for three-phase AC motors condition monitoring. This project was supported and partially funded by Humber’s Office of Research & Innovation. 

Find the full story from the Office of Research & Innovation.

New Mandatory COVID-19 Awareness Training for Employees

The new online course, Employee COVID-19 Awareness Training (Return to Campus Fall 2021) has just launched. The training is intended for all current employees, including those working on campus and those working remotely in the fall.

All employees must complete this revised training, even if they completed a COVID Awareness course last semester or previously. Employees are required to complete the training by September 15. Employees hired after September 15, are to complete the training prior to visiting the college, or within the first two weeks of the start of their employment/contract, whichever comes first.

The training covers the risks of COVID-19, on-campus safety measures, well-being resources, and more. The training should take approximately 30 minutes to complete. The training module is available on Blackboard and the general instructions for accessing the training are below.

All current employees have been registered into the course. If you do not have access to Blackboard, please contact us at healthandsafety@humber.ca to make alternate arrangements. Managers may send their list of new employees to healthandsafety@humber.ca to provide them with access to the training.

If you have any questions about the training, please contact your manager or Occupational Health and Safety at healthandsafety@humber.ca.

HROE | Occupational Health and Safety
healthandsafety@humber.ca

Employee COVID-19 Awareness Training (Return to Campus Fall 2021)

To access the training on Blackboard:

1. Go to learn.humber.ca and log in with your Humber credentials (single sign-on).
2. On the main page under “Courses”, click on the “Employee COVID-19 Awareness Training (Return to Campus Fall 2021)” link.
3. Click on the course title that appears in the middle of the sidebar. If the sidebar is hidden, select the grey arrow at the top of the sidebar to expand the drop-down options.
4. Click on either the image or the  course title link above the image. If popups are blocked, click on the enable popups button or link within the popup blocked notification.

General notes:

1. All employees are required to take this training, whether you are coming onsite or working remotely and even if you’ve taken a similar course in the past.
2. The training takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. We strongly recommend that it be completed in one sitting. Contract faculty will be paid by their faculty for their time to do the training.
3. Recommended Browsers are the more current versions of:
   • PCs - Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge (Chrome-based), Mozilla Firefox
   • Macs – Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox 
4. For technical issues, or if an employee does not have access to the course on Blackboard, please contact healthandsafety@humber.ca and provide:
   • Employee’s first and last name
   • Employee’s n-number
   • Department/Faculty name
   • Manager/Associate Dean name
   • Start date of employment/contract

The Humber IGS (International Graduate School) campus has launched on-campus operations this fall semester. We are excited to share with you our first IGS Newsletter issue - The IGS Chronicle. 

We invite the Humber community to read further for updates on our return to campus, the IGS community, and the many initiatives and projects underway. If you have questions or would like to connect with us, please use the contact information provided in the newsletter to reach out.

We look forward to continued collaboration with the Humber community. 

Diane Simpson
Principal, IGS