IGNITE is offering an amazing opportunity for students to enhance their skills from the comfort of home with Skillshare.

Skillshare is an online learning platform that hosts more than 22,000 classes topics ranging from graphic design to business, to animation and so much more! Plus, this interactive experience allows you to work at your own pace while receiving personalized feedback from industry leaders.

But this offer won’t last long. IGNITE only has a limited amount of Skillshare memberships to offer Humber and University of Guelph-Humber students.

To share this with students, please visit our website for registration details click here.

As we approach the Fall 2020 semester, library staff are working hard to provide alternative access to our print textbook collection, and we are developing new approaches to how we acquire course textbooks. With many courses being offered solely online, and with students having limited access to campus, we are doing all we can to leverage our existing electronic resources and to purchase new ones with faculty input. 

Unfortunately, this work is hampered by textbook publishers who do not provide electronic purchasing options for libraries. Approximately 90% of course textbooks for the Summer 2020 term were unavailable to the Library in any format other than print. Many textbook publishers have built their profit models around selling e-textbooks directly to students and do not allow for institutional purchase. We also understand that the cost of textbooks and other course materials can represent a major financial hurdle for students at Humber College. 

Despite the Library’s commitment to provide access to required textbooks and course materials to assist students who are unable to purchase their own, the following publishers will not allow us to purchase an e-textbook version of their publications: 

• Pearson 
• Cengage 
• Milady 
• Houghton 
• McGraw Hill 
• Oxford University Press Canada (Textbook Division) 
• Emond 
• Elsevier imprints including: 
• Elsevier Health Science 
• Mosby 
• Saunders 
• Thieme 

For courses that have adopted textbooks by these publishers, students who do not purchase the textbook will not have any alternative access to the textbook content.  

We are working with faculty to explore and identify viable textbook alternatives, including: 

1. Using an existing eBook in the relevant subject area from the library’s eBook collection or exploring the purchase of new eBook titles as recommended by faculty. There are many academic e-books that aren’t considered textbooks and are therefore available for the Library to purchase. 

2. Adopting an open educational resource (OER). OERs are freely available educational materials that are openly licensed to allow for re-use and modification by instructors. 

3. Creating a Course Resources Page: 

• Course Resources Pages include links to library database articles, eBooks, streaming video and web content. 
• They are designed to be uploaded to Blackboard and can be organized by week or topic. 
• The Course Resources team can also assist with acquiring access to articles not available through our databases and knowing what content can be uploaded into Blackboard and made available to students under Humber’s Fair Dealing policy. 

For more information on these options, please contact your liaison librarian. 

Thank you to our colleagues at University of Guelph Library for allowing Humber Libraries to adapt their statement.  

Human Rights Saturday Morning Training Sessions 2020

Non-Full-Time Faculty

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity (the Centre) engaged the Humber College community in a participatory and consultative process to obtain feedback on Humber’s Human Rights Policy and Human Rights Complaint Resolution Procedures in 2018. As a result, Humber launched the revised Human Rights Policy and Human Rights Complaint Resolution Procedures in December 2018.

The Ontario Human Rights Commission requires that all employers provide ongoing education and training on the organization’s human rights policy.  All Humber employees (full-time, non-full-time, work-study) are required to update their knowledge of Humber’s Human Rights Policy and Complaint Resolution Procedures.

We understand that non-full-time faculty may experience scheduling challenges to attend a weekday human rights training session and for this reason, the Centre is offering training sessions on Saturday mornings for non-full-time faculty.

Please note: All Humber employees who have attended a Humber Human Rights Training session prior to August 2018 are required to refresh their  knowledge of Humber’s Human Rights Policy and Complaint Resolution Procedures.

Participants at the training workshop will:

1. Increase their understanding of key Human Rights terms and concepts in order to more effectively prevent, recognize and respond to human rights related concerns;
2. Receive resources that will assist in enhancing inclusion at Humber; and
3. Receive Humber’s Human Rights Policy.

To attend a Human Rights Training session, please register online at hrs.humber.ca/register.

For registration assistance, please contact Zareena Khan at zareena.khan@humber.ca.

As of July 2020, students enrolled in a Humber diploma or certificate program are no longer required to complete the Computerized College Placement Test (CCPT) to determine their first semester English and/or Math course.

Students who may have been previously directed to schedule the CCPT will be contacted to confirm that, when preparing for registration, they can visit MyHumber > Student > Academic Progress to view which course to register into. Once the student has started the course in the Fall, their faculty member can connect with them, as needed, to ensure that they have enrolled in the most appropriate course level for each subject.

Updates are underway on the Humber Testing Services Online Admissions Testing and Faculty web pages as well as the Admissions Roadmap (Step 7) to reflect this change.

Further details about English Placement for Fall 2020 can be found here and English and Math Course Requirement information for Faculty and Staff reference is available here.