Announcements

Parking Lot Closures: Lot 1, 13, and 14
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When:
July 20, 2020
Contact:
Daniel Alonzo
Email:
daniel.alonzo@humber.ca
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While only a limited number of staff and students are currently accessing the North Campus, please note that Humber Facilities will be closing the following parking lots at North Campus for maintenance and repaving from Monday, July 27, 2020 until Friday, September 4, 2020.

  • North side of Parking Lot #1
  • The walkway between main campus and Residence Buildings
  • Full Parking Lot #13 and #14

Alternate parking lots include Lot #6, #8, and #10. For better reference, please see attached site plan.

If there are any questions or concerns, please contact Daniel Alonzo of Facilities Management at daniel.alonzo@humber.ca.

Mailroom Operating Hours
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When:
July 16, 2020
Contact:
Ashfaque Khan
Email:
ashfaque.khan@humber.ca

Effective immediately, the mailroom at North Campus is operating from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Mail and parcels are being delivered to the offices without obtaining any signatures, as well the outgoing mail is being picked up on our mail runs. UPS is picking up outgoing couriers as usual.

Humber Grads Nominated for RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards
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When:
July 16, 2020
Contact:
Karina Butzek-Morris
Email:
karina.butzek-morris@humber.ca
Decorative image. Horizontal RBC logo and text: "Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards"

Humber is proud to congratulate two RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award finalists, Immigration Consultant alumni Svetlana Balaba (2016), and Sanchari Sen Rai (2019). Voting is open now until August 7, 2020, to help these Humber graduates receive this honour.

Svetlana is Manager, International Admissions, Humber College, overseeing a team to ensure timely processing of more than 20,000 international applications per year. Coming to Canada as an international student in 2009, she now helps others fulfill a similar dream. In 2018, Svetlana opened her own immigration company assisting international graduates to become permanent residents of Canada. She is also an avid volunteer, working with the Canadian Bureau for International Education and the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants

Sanchari is the Co-Founder & CEO of Education Consultants Canada (ECC). As committed facilitators who build bridges between aspirations and achievements, ECC provides strategic consulting, including education plans & development for higher education abroad. She has helped more than 15,000 international students find placements in colleges and universities across Canada and around the world. In 2019, she was recognized as part of Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards (BMO Entrepreneur Category).

Full bios on both nominees and voting are available here.

Scholarship set up in Honour of Former Humber College Board Chair Stuart Smith
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When:
July 13, 2020

In recognition of Former Board Chair Stuart Smith’s contributions to Humber, a scholarship has been set up in his name. More information on supporting this fund and others is available here. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to Melissa Beauchamp, Director of Annual and Leadership Giving at melissa.beauchamp@humber.ca.

Sharing Knowledge – Racism
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When:
July 13, 2020
Contact:
Zareena Khan
Tel:
x4825
Email:
Zareena.Khan@humber.ca
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Sharing Knowledge - Racism

Sharing Knowledge

Humber College is committed to fostering a respectful and inclusive culture in which all members of the College community study, work and live free from discrimination and harassment. To this end, it is imperative that we understand the definition of key equity terms that will enrich our capacity to prevent all forms of harassment and discrimination. Over the summer months, the Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity will be providing definitions of key terms pertinent to our work in building a more inclusive College.

Key Terms

Definition

Racism

The Ontario Anti-Racism Directorate defines racism as ideas or practices that establish, maintain or perpetuate the racial superiority or dominance of one group over another.

(Source: Ontario Anti-Racism Directorate

Manifestations of Racism

The Ontario Human Rights Commission states that manifestations of racism can occur on three (3) levels:

  1. Individual: At the individual level, racism may be expressed in an overt manner but also through everyday behaviour that involves many small events in the interaction between people. This is often described as “everyday racism” and is often very subtle in nature. Despite being plain to the person experiencing it, everyday racism by itself may be so subtle as to be difficult to address through human rights complaints. However, at other times, where it falls within a social area covered by the Human Rights Code, there may be circumstances where everyday racism, as part of a broader context, may be sufficient to be considered racial discrimination. Either way, the cumulative effect of these everyday experiences is profound.

  1. Institutional or Systemic: At the institutional or systemic level, racism is evident in organizational and government policies, practices, and procedures and “normal ways of doing things” which may directly or indirectly, consciously or unwittingly, promote, sustain, or entrench differential advantage for some people and disadvantage for others.

  1. Societal: At a societal level, racism is evident in cultural and ideological expressions that underlie and sustain dominant values and beliefs. It is communicated and reproduced through agencies of socialization and cultural transmission such as the mass media (in which racialized persons are portrayed as different from the norm or as problems), schools, universities, religious doctrines and practices, art, music and literature. It is reflected in everyday language; for example “whiteness” is associated with overwhelmingly positive connotations, while “blackness” is associated with negative connotations. This form of racism is maintained through socialization as children begin to absorb these beliefs and values at an early age.

(Source: Ontario Human Rights Commission, Policy and guidelines on racism and racial discrimination

Recommended Readings & Video

  1. Wing Sue, Derald. (2016): Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race.

  2. Baumgartner, Frank, R et al. (2018): Suspect Citizens - What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race.

  3. Obear, Kathy. (2016). Racist Attitudes and Behaviors of Whites [Video].

 

 

 

Humber Sustainability Report 2019-2020
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When:
July 13, 2020
Contact:
The Office of Sustainability
Email:
sustainability@humber.ca

A lot has happened in the past few months and we have had some time to reflect as a team. We are even more committed to our long-term goals, which will shape a healthy, inclusive, diverse and sustainable community.

We still have a lot of work to do, and many new challenges ahead of us, but we are proud of the progress that the Humber community has made and our team will continue to place empathy, compassion and humility at the centre of everything we do.

To view our progress, please read our full Humber Sustainability Report 2019-2020.

 

The Office of Sustainability

Connect with Humber's Office of Sustainability online: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

2020 Student Art Show
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When:
July 13, 2020
Contact:
Maggie Hobbs
Email:
maggie.hobbs@humber.ca

Each year, a panel of jurors from the local art community selects five pieces of artwork from the annual Student Art Show to represent Humber at the League for Innovation International Student Art Competition.

This year, there were 161 art submissions and 22 pieces were recognized by the judges. The results are as follows:

Colour Photography

1st Place & Jurors' Pick: Danielle Violot – Offerings
2nd Place & Jurors' Pick: Jainik Chheda – Empowered
3rd Place: Kushboo Panchal – The Bliss

Honourable Mention: Nicholas Reuper – Lest We Forget
Honourable Mention: Pratibha Dixit – Zarbriskie Point
Honourable Mention: Nicholas Reuper – Lest We Forget

Mixed Media, 3-Dimensional Art and other

1st Place & Jurors' Pick: Alena Rotko – Triptych Ayahuasca
2nd Place: Jerome Duah-Kessie – What Are You Looking At?
3rd Place: Britt Hartley – Sepia Steppes

Honourable Mention: Jackie Walker – Humility Dance

Monochromatic Photographer

1st Place & Jurors' Pick: Celso Volfe – Andante Moderato
2nd Place: Emmanuel Prince – Through the looking glass
3rd Place: Maria Galinato – Femme Fatale

Honourable Mention: Edwin Monroy – Water Dancer
Honourable Mention: Emile  Constantin – Luis
Honourable Mention: Matthew Gosselin – Vision

Painting and Drawing

1st Place & Jurors' Pick: Elisabeth Chau – Grow with the Flow
2nd Place: Gizem Candan – Micheal
3rd Place: Lexxie Santana-Munoz – Studio Study

Honourable Mention: Anna  Bondarenko – Another Kiss
Honourable Mention: Elisabeth Chau – Dream Big
Honourable Mention: Shahira Mahmood – Golden Ray

 

To view the Virtual Art Show please visit here.

96.9 Radio Humber Presents: Grad Advice
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When:
July 13, 2020
Contact:
Kylee Winn-Thurrott
Email:
kylee.winn-thurrott@humber.ca

We asked our grads for advice on the next steps after finishing at Humber. 

Online

Listen

  • Radio:
    on the dial at 96.9
  • Google:
    "Hey/Okay google, play Radio Humber"
  • Alexa:
    "Alexa, play Radio Humber"
  • RadioPlayer Canada:
    Search 96.9 Radio Humber
Summer Soundscape Series
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When:
July 13, 2020
Contact:
Maranda Tippins
Email:
info@lakeshoregrounds.ca
Black and white photograph of people sitting inside a schoolbus

Buckle up to experience the Lakeshore Grounds like never before! 

The Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre has been busy creating a new Summer Soundscape Series in which we take you back in time to experience the Lakeshore Grounds of yesteryear. Every few weeks we will be dropping a self-guided soundscape tour to help you envision what the area looked and sounded like at different times. You can either download an audio file and map to take with you on a journey around the grounds or watch a video version featuring archival and contemporary photos from the comfort of your own home.

Our first soundscape is already live: Step back to 1969 and explore a day as a Lakeshore Teachers' College student!

Files are available on our website at lakeshoregrounds.ca/soundscapes.

Please Inform Facilities Management if you are on Campus
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When:
July 10, 2020

To Faculty/Department leads,

As limited numbers of staff and students return to campus, we ask that you please let Facilities know if you are going to have staff on campus, either at North Campus or Lakeshore Campus.

Email daniel.alonzo@humber.ca with location information and duration, so we can ensure that the building HVAC systems are on.

 

Daniel Alonzo
Associate Director, Facilities Management

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