As part of the Consent Peer Education Program (CPEP) and Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity's Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) programming in April 2021, students, staff, and faculty are encouraged to participate in our SAAM Challenge! Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in April, a prompt will be provided on the CPEP Instagram and through the Humber Communiqué to encourage people to take an action in recognition of SAAM. Participants who share a photo addressing the prompt by emailing it to cpep@humber.ca will be entered into a raffle to win a $150 gift card; all entries must be submitted by Monday, May 3 at 12 p.m. to be eligible for the prize!

Today's prompt is...Denim Day: Wear jeans to take a stand against victim-blaming in honour of Denim Day.

Congratulations to all our employees celebrating career milestones in April 2021! 

The following employees are celebrating their 1, 5, 10, 20, and 35-year anniversary with Humber. We encourage you to reach out to your colleagues to congratulate them on their career milestones. 

Questions? Please email us at oe@humber.ca.

Please join me in welcoming Frank Cappadocia to Humber College as the inaugural Dean, Continuous Professional Learning (CPL). Frank’s first day is Monday, May 3, 2021.

Frank joins Humber from Lakehead University’s Orillia campus where, most recently, he held the position of Associate Vice-President of Administration & Community Engagement. During his 12-year tenure at Lakehead, Frank held several leadership positions including: Associate Vice-Provost, Administrative Services, Assistant Dean Student Affairs, and Project Lead for the Lakehead-Georgian Partnership. Frank’s extensive postsecondary experience includes roles as the inaugural Director of York University’s Centre for Student Community and Leadership Development, General Manager and Chief Administrative Officer of the College Student Alliance and the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer for the Continuing Education Students’ Association of Ryerson University.

Frank is a graduate of Humber’s Diploma in Law and Security Administration program and was President of the Humber Students’ Federation (Lakeshore). Frank completed his undergraduate degree in Sociology at York University and holds a master’s degree in Leadership Studies from Regis University. He is pursuing his MBA in Educational Leadership at the University of Cumbria.

At Humber, Frank will be responsible for driving our CPL (non-postsecondary) strategy in collaboration with our Faculties, Education & Training Solutions (ETS) and other service delivery providers. The CPL strategy will align corporate training, continuing education, professional learning 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.

Frank will lead and support the finalization of the CPL collaborative framework and implementation through a highly consultative and collaborative approach.

As there will be an emphasis on business development and revenue diversification, Corporate Training and business development services currently in ETS will be moved under Frank’s leadership, effective June 2021. Wanda Buote, Dean, Education & Training Solutions, will continue to lead the growth of the programs within ETS, including the Real Estate Education Program and the recently announced partnership with the Condominium Management Regulatory Authority of Ontario.

Welcome, Frank!

Rani Dhaliwal
SVP, Transformation and Strategic Partnerships

Thank you to all the staff, faculty, and students who requested and/or participated in a Bringing in the Bystander sexual violence prevention and education training this year! Bringing in the Bystander participants learn about sexual violence, consent, rape culture, bystander intervention, and responding to disclosures; we are grateful for your recognition of this important learning and making room for us in your virtual classrooms, workspaces, etc. Some highlights from this year:

• 26 sessions were hosted from May 2020 to April 2021
• 717 participants were trained (a 49% increase from the 2019-2020 academic year)
• We hosted twice the number of curricular sessions that we did in 2019-2020
• Our University of New Brunswick Nursing Program placement students trained over 100 of their peers

Check out the infographic attached to this Communiqué post to see more highlights from the 2020-2021 academic year. To learn more about the Bringing in the Bystander program, please visit our website or email bystanderprogram@humber.ca; to request a session, please fill out our workshop request form.