Hello Humber. Earlier this month, we began interacting with the Humber community about health and well-being and we want you to join in the fun.

Last week, several Employee News Network (ENN) videos were shared with information on the College’s flu clinics, as well as on Humber’s commitment to health and wellness on campus and at home.

In the coming weeks, Communiqué and ENN will include content aimed at helping support a healthy work environment for all staff, whether you’re at home, on campus, or anywhere else. This may include tips, resources and other helpful information.

Through the Student Success and Engagement team, students will also learn about all that Humber offers to support a healthy lifestyle. Engaging social media activities and videos will highlight what students can do to prioritize health and seek help when they need it.

Next week, we’re going to share more about how you can be involved in showing how you practice wellness and what wellness means to you. If you’d like to get a head start and want to share what you are doing to be healthy, please send your stories, anecdotes, photos and videos to publicrelations@humber.ca.

Stay safe and be well.

Beginning November 16, Humber will be reopening fitness centres with some revised health and safety measures.

As Humber continues to limit the number of people on campus to only what is necessary, students who have a course on campus may use the fitness centre for their scheduled workout only on the day(s) they are on campus for academic purposes. The fitness centres will continue to be open to students living in residence on campus.

Humber staff who are working regularly on campus as part of their Faculty or department’s return to campus plan continue to have access. 

All patrons using the facility must adhere to the new social distancing rule of three metres (nine feet).

Fitness Centre Reservation System

Humber Athletics will continue using an online reservation system for booking workout slots at our fitness centres. There will no longer be drop-in hours available and all on-campus students, residence students, and staff are required to pre-register their workout time.

Slots are available in 90-minute* increments as follows:

North Campus Fitness Centre – Monday through Friday: 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m.
Lakeshore Campus Fitness Centre – Monday and Wednesday 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m. / Friday 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m.

• Can be booked up to 14 days in advance and 1 minute prior to any given time slot.
• Select your campus from the booking page, pick a date from the calendar and then select your desired time slot.
• Complete the registration form and reserve your place.
• Limit one reservation per day, restricted to the day of campus access for students (academic purposes) or for staff (manager approval).
• Any questions please email Humber Athletics.

*Please note your 90-minute session will include check-in time, use of the fitness facility, and departure.

Full details of the re-opening can be found here. 

Information Technology Services has three "operational excellence nights" scheduled for the coming year. During these scheduled nights, most (if not all) technical services will be temporarily unavailable.

Understanding that shutdowns of any kind are inconvenient, they are, nevertheless, necessary so Information Technology Services and its network of partners can carryout critical infrastructure activities on behalf of the Humber community including:

1. Patching/Updating hardware and software assets against security threats to keep Humber's data safe
2. Testing the organization's business continuity solutions to mitigate against unexpected service interruptions
3. Optimizing the performance of key business systems to ensure a consistently positive end-user experience

Operational Excellence Nights for this year, as well as the next two years, are as follows:

Each of the scheduled nights will start Saturday evening at 6 p.m. and carry forward until 8 a.m. Sunday morning.

IMPORTANT: Work of an urgent nature may, occasionally, necessitate additional service interruptions. In such cases, Information Technology Services will make every effort to schedule the work (with advance notice) early in the morning, late at night, or over a weekend to minimize the impact to operations.

The changes affecting humber.ca will take place within the smaller window of 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. During that time, humber.ca sites may be intermittently inaccessible as services are restarted.

Questions? Concerns? Please contact Ryan Burton, Director of Digital Solutions, at ryan.burton@humber.ca.

Need help? 416.675.6622 x8888 I its.humber.ca I supportcentre@humber.ca

I am pleased and delighted to announce that Dr. Martine Spinks has accepted the position of Associate Dean, Design & Built Environment within the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology.  

Martine joins us with more than 15 years as an internationally networked academic in the Built Environment Sciences. Martine’s education spans with credentials from a B.A. in International Development (major); Urban Systems & Ethnic Studies (minors) from McGill University, a MSc. in Cities, Space & Society from London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and a PhD from the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, England. She has also completed several courses in Learning and Teaching in Higher & Professional Education, Institute of Education, University College London.  

She comes to us with experience from various academic capacities, starting as a Manager in Public Sector Consultancy, Sustainability, Real Estate & Planning Team, PwC, followed by a role as an Associate Director for a Government Building Consultancy in London, England. Upon completion of her PhD, she was hired as a faculty researcher and lecturer in Sustainable Building at the School of Planning, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London. Since her return to Canada, she has acted as a lecturer/professor at University of Toronto, Ryerson University and Seneca College and most recently as an Academic Planning Consultant and Program Coordinator, Faculty of Continuing Education, at Seneca College. She is a member of the Building Research Establishment’s Global Governing Body. 

Her educational and professional background combined with her teaching qualifications, administrative and managerial experience, positions her well for our new Associate Dean in the Design and Built Environment cluster.  

I also want to take this opportunity to thank Carl Oliver, in particular for the outstanding job that he has done as Associate Dean during the last few years. Carl will continue as Associate Dean until the end of the Fall 2020 term. Dr. Martine Spinks will take over the role of Associate Dean on January 4, 2020. 

Dr. Martine Spinks will be joining Humber on November 30, 2020. Throughout the month of December, she will have the opportunity to meet you and transition smoothly into her role. 

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Martine Spinks to her new role at Humber.   

Best regards,  

Farzad Rayegani, Ph.D, P.Eng. FEC.
Senior Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology (FAST)