Why Black Heritage?

“Black Heritage Month” reflects emerging terminology that aims to recognize the history of the Black community, along with its present achievements and future. 

In 1995, Canada officially recognized Black History Month following a motion introduced by the first Black Canadian woman elected to Parliament, the Honourable Jean Augustine. For many Canadians, recognizing Black History Month provided a doorway into the culture and experience of Black/African people. Many Black Canadians have also shared that Black History Month has a disproportionate focus on the past and narratives of slavery and colonialism. There have been calls for a shift that recognizes the past, but also celebrates the present and imagines a radical, bold and bright future for Black Canadians.

In partnership with BASE and equity seeking groups across Humber College, the Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity is advocating a shift, from “Black History Month” towards “Black Heritage 365 Days of the Year”. Black Heritage 365 Days of the Year recognizes the achievements and contributions of Black Canadians. At the same time, the Centre aims to provide programming throughout the year to build resiliency, practices and communities of care, and skill development for Black/African staff and students. Additionally, our all year programming of Black Heritage aims to build EDI capacity, anti-Black racism and awareness

Coming Up….

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 – Developing Resiliency Through Adversity with Jodie Glean

• Identify and discuss the current challenges in professional environments experienced by Black professionals and the barriers that exists to addressing them
• Increase understanding of the concept of resiliency and its relevance for Black professionals in the work and learning environment
• Share tools and techniques that support the activation of resilience for Black community within the work and learning environment

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 – Challenging Anti-Black Racism – Part II with Sacha Ally and Adam Benn

• Explore the impact of anti-Black racial microaggressions in the Virtual Environment
• Discuss using “microinterventions” as a strategy for addressing anti-Black racism

Friday, February 26, 2021 – Understanding the Determinants of Health for a Healthy and Inclusive Community with Dr. Roberta Timothy

• To examine your positionality within equity work
• To understand the determinants of health and its importance to anti-oppression (EDI) practice
• To examine how equity can be centered in building healthy and inclusive communities (Access and Equity: Students & Employees, Curriculum and Programs, Campus Culture, and College-Wide Communication and Engagement)

To register: email zareena.khan@humber.ca

February’s Playlist

Borrowing a page from President Barack Obama, the Centre is pleased to offer a playlist of some of our favourite artists:

1. Measha Brueggergosman - Reve Infini (Infinite Dream)
2. Jully Black - Seven Day Fool
3. Youssou N'Dour - 7 Seconds ft. Neneh Cherry
4. Drake - God's Plan
5. K'NAAN - Take A Minute

We are offering the Security Guard Licensing: Preparatory course (SECN 106) this winter online from February 8 to March 19.

The regular course fee is $333.90. 

If you are a domestic student, currently in the Faculty of Social and Community Services at Humber, the discounted fee is $200.

To avoid late penalties, the discounted fee must be made within 48 hours of registration. Payment can be made on myhumber.ca.

*Please note that the regular fee is the standard domestic tuition fee and should be used as a guideline only. International fees may apply for international students.

Registration is open on our website

Click here: SECN 106 - Security Guard Licensing: Preparatory
Step-by-Step how to register: CE Registration Guide

Important

If you are entitled to the discounted fee, do not pay the full amount. Instead, select the option to ‘Pay through your bank’ on step 9 (payment options) and send an email to ce-sscs@humber.ca informing your student number to get further information on how to receive the discount.

Course details

SECN 106-909   
CRN: 50597
Delivery: Online
Dates: February 8 to March 19

Attendance

Ministry requires that students complete a minimum of 45 hours of training. For the current online delivery option, the requirements remain the same. All students still need to complete the mandatory minimum of 45 hours of training, which translates into 7.5 hours per week (for six weeks) of online work.

CPR Level C and Emergency First Aid Training

This course requires Emergency First Aid and CPR Level C training. A list of approved providers of this training can be found at the following link: Approved Providers - First Aid and CPR Training

Training Completion Number

Once you have completed the course, please send your First Aid and CPR Level C training certificate and the consent form (provided by your instructor) to ce-sscs@humber.ca. This number is required to write your licensing exam.

If you have any questions about this process or require any further details, please connect with us via sscs-ce@humber.ca.

Website now highlights ways partners can collaborate with Humber

Humber made strong, sustainable collaborations with industry, community, international and alumni partners a strategic priority in the 2018-2023 Strategic Plan.

To support the achievement of this priority, Humber developed a framework to foster and nurture sustainable, mutually beneficial strategic partnerships. The framework outlines six stages from identification through to renewal.  

Tyler Charlebois, manager of strategic partnerships, has been collaborating with many areas across the College in the development of strategic partnerships resulting in new partnerships with Amazon, Siemens Canada, and Revera Inc. to name a few.

Check out the new Strategic Partnership Update Newsletter in the attachments.

Employers & Partners Website Update

The Employers and Partners website has been refreshed with a new focused look and feel that makes the case for collaborating with Humber. It can be found at humber.ca/partners.

Potential industry and community partners will be able to learn why and how they can collaborate with the college, which will help us to deliver on the strategic priority to establish strong, sustainable collaborations that create unique learning experiences for our students and reciprocal benefits for our partners.

If you have any questions about the Strategic Partnership Framework or the Employers & Partners website, please reach out to tyler.charlebois@humber.ca.  

I am pleased to provide the Humber community with details about upcoming changes within the academic division. These changes are part of the organizational transformation that began in Fall 2018 when we transitioned from eight Schools to six Faculties, when Applied Research, PPDR and Teaching and Learning were realigned to the AVP, Academic portfolio and when the Transformation and Strategic Partnerships portfolio was established under the leadership of Senior Vice-President, Rani Dhaliwal.

We are excited to be moving forward with changes to how we promote innovation in teaching and learning, applied research, program planning and curriculum renewal at Humber. 

Over the coming months, we will be evolving the Teaching and Learning department to a new Centre for Innovative Learning within the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Science and Innovative Learning and enhancing its connections with the Applied Research and Program Planning, Development and Renewal teams.

We are also launching our continuous professional learning (CPL) strategy, with a focus on growing our market share through non-full-time programs delivered in virtual, hybrid and flexible learning formats. This will include a focus on the development and delivery of non-postsecondary programming with a view to meeting the needs of new markets and increasing Humber’s net revenue generation capabilities.

These changes will better position Humber to achieve our Strategic and Academic Plan goals and build on our strengths in providing high quality polytechnic education in-person and online.

The changes are designed to improve collaboration across the departments that support employees and teams engaged in the teaching and learning process at Humber, and to provide direct support to faculty members in their work as teachers and researchers. The changes will improve our operational capacity by streamlining reporting and decision-making and by leveraging expertise and resources more effectively.

The CPL strategy will align corporate training, continuing education and other programming, helping us to stay at the forefront of responding to labour market demand and making it easier for learners to access the full range of our programming.

We will begin recruiting immediately for key senior roles to support our focus on teaching and learning excellence and innovation. There are also reporting changes to support this new approach.

The changes being announced today include:

Changes to support Humber’s Continuous Professional Learning/Corporate Training (previously CE) strategy:

• New role: Dean, Continuous Professional Learning 
  • The Dean will be responsible for driving Humber’s CPL strategy in collaboration with our Faculties and Education & Training Solutions. Leading the creation of Humber’s non-post-secondary business development strategy, the Dean will work with the Faculties on the development of new programming and generating new revenues. This role will report to the SVP, Transformation and Strategic Partnerships.

Changes to support development of Humber’s Teaching and Learning Excellence and Innovation Ecosystem: 

• New role: Dean, Innovative Learning  
  • This role will be responsible for the development and implementation of a Humber Teaching and Learning Excellence and Innovation strategy, aligned with and supportive of the goals outlined in Humber’s Strategic and Academic Plans. The Dean will act as a facilitator, bringing together other academic division leaders and their teams within the Centre for Innovative Learning. This role will report to the Senior Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Science and Innovative Learning.

The following roles will report to the Dean, Innovative Learning:

• Mark Ihnat, Associate Dean, Digital Learning. This position builds on Mark’s current work in his role as Director eLearning.   
• Sarah Peake, Associate Dean, Flexible Learning. Building on her current work, Sarah will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of our quality assurance and continuous improvement frameworks for CPL. Sarah will also provide support for new flexible learning programming initiatives.   
• Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning. This new position will be responsible for the development and delivery of professional development programming for faculty, staff and academic leaders.

• New role: Dean of Research and Innovation.

• Ginger Grant is the successful candidate in the recent competition for Dean of Research and Innovation. In this expanded role, Ginger will have responsibility for applied research and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Ginger will continue to strengthen the connection between Humber’s COI Network and our research activities, and COI Directors will be increasing their communication and collaboration with Research and Innovation. Ginger will report to the AVP, Academic.

The following roles will report to the Dean of Research and Innovation:

• Associate Dean, Applied Research and Innovation.
• Associate Dean, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Searches for both these vacant Associate Dean positions will commence in February 2021.

• Realignment of Program, Planning, Development and Renewal (PPDR).
  • To support this more integrated approach, the Dean of PPDR, and the PPDR team, will report to the Senior Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning. They will work closely with the Dean, Innovative Learning on the development and implementation of the Humber Teaching and Learning Excellence and Innovation strategy.   

The above changes will come into effect by April 1, 2021. They will not result in any job loss or additional positions. All new roles are being created through existing complements that are currently vacant.

We are excited about these changes and the future of Humber. We look forward to collaborating with the college community in our new format as we work to provide the highest quality teaching and learning environment for our students and faculty.

Please contact your manager if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Laurie Rancourt 
Senior Vice-President, Academic 
Humber College