Flags at Humber campuses flown at half-mast on December 6 to mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Learn more about the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Send your 2021 holiday wishes to your external partners, stakeholders and others with one of Humber’s 2021 holiday e-cards!
Our eco-friendly holiday wishes come in a variety of designs and messages. The designs for these e-cards were created by Dekel Chui, Government Relations, Marketing and Communication (GRMC) department. If you have any questions, please contact marie.kyrinis@humber.ca.
We are offering you a variety of styles to choose from this year:
Wishing all of you a safe and happy holidays,
Government Relations, Marketing and Communications team
*You must have Adobe Acrobat PRO with the edit feature to customize the message within e-cards.
The Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning continues to mourn the loss of the 14 women at Polytechnique Montréal on December 6, 1989, now over 30 years ago.
In honouring their memory and mourning their loss, we reiterate our commitment to combating both the hatred that led to their deaths, as well as the misogyny that still exists today. Throughout Canada and worldwide, women, girls, 2SLGBTQ+ (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) and gender diverse individuals suffer unacceptable violence and discrimination.
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified and intensified gender-based violence in Canada. Police services, shelters, and local organizations have reported an increase in calls regarding gender-based violence during the pandemic. The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women is both a time to remember and to take action. When we remember and learn from our past, listen to survivors, and speak out against harmful behavior, we can help prevent and address gender-based violence.
Join the Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion on Monday, December 6, 2021 for a panel discussion on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women with our featured speakers: Yamikani Msosa, Melissa Simas and Seán Kinsella.
View the event flyer for details and register to attend the event.
Important for all Humber faculties and units,
With Humber’s move to Ultra and the need for additional storage, the Blackboard Purge Project will permanently delete old DEV, SBX and LIVE courses from the Blackboard server in two phases over the next few weeks. View the list of courses here to see if your courses are tagged to be purged in December 2021/January 2022.
Blackboard will start purging old courses in two phases.
Phase 1
By December 15th, 2021, all LIVE (Banner generated) course sites from Fall 2018 to Summer 2019 will be permanently purged. Should you wish to retain your course(s) you may submit a request by clicking on "Request to Retain" button beside the course record (see link above) with an explanation on why you wish to retain the course.
The deadline is Wednesday, December 8, 2021.
Your request to retain may not be approved and as such, if your course is tagged to be purged, please make a backup of it and download/save the backup on your device.
It will take at most 5 minutes to back up your course.
For help with backing up your courses, check the tutorial: Archiving Blackboard Original Courses
Phase 2
By January 14th, 2022, all DEV and SBX courses from the beginning of time until Summer 2019 will be permanently purged, unless marked as “Request to Retain” by January 8, 2022.
For help with backing up your courses, check the tutorial: Archiving Blackboard Original Courses
Thank you,
Digital Learning Team
The Department of Public Safety in partnership with the Toronto Police Service #Santa9114Kids and CP24 CHUM CHRISTMAS WISH will be collecting toys for our annual toy drive. Last year was a huge success! A big thanks goes to the Humber College community.
We were able to collect and donate hundreds of toys to several local hospitals, families, and single parents in the GTA that needed some help during the holiday season.
Please bring a new unwrapped toy to any one of these locations: Learning Resource Commons (LRC), Public Safety in NX101 (North Campus), M Building (Lakeshore Campus) or to the North or Lakeshore Residence reception area by December 15, 2021.
You can also order toys online and send toys to:
Humber College
c/o Department of Public Safety
205 Humber College Blvd, Room NX101
Toronto, Ontario, M9W 5L7
Once again thank you for the continued support!
Humanizing the Online Learning Experience
The LMS is now an indispensable tool in higher education. But how do we maintain a human centred approach to pedagogy? In this second episode of our two-part series on LMS in Higher Learning, we are joined by Humber FMCA Faculty members, Cynthia Young and Mark-Anthony Karam, who explore strategies to ensure that your LMS design reflects your teaching philosophy and process.
“I think pace and flow…become a really important thing, and this concept of ‘breathe at the beginning of the week and reflect at the end of the week’ is a really great way. And it sets them up in the professional environment as well.”
- Cynthia Young, PC and Faculty, Content Strategy Certificate and User Experience (UX) Design graduate certificate, FMCA
“Just like you want your students to be authentic with their projects, you be authentic with your teaching style. Don’t be afraid to put a piece of you in your teaching; those are the things your students respect.”
- Mark-Anthony Karam, Faculty, FMCA
Further Resources
How'd we get here? Mark's podcast series "on education + design with wellness in mind."
Humber FMCA UX Design Program Program Overview
Listen to Humanizing the Online Learning Experience now at The Staff Lounge or wherever you get your podcasts!
What is Workplace Harassment?
Humber College and the University of Guelph-Humber (hereafter referred to as "Humber" or "the College") is committed to fostering a respectful and inclusive culture in which all members of the Humber community study, work and live free from discrimination and harassment. Humber has the right and the legal and moral responsibility to ensure that all College community members are treated fairly, equitably, and respectfully and to provide a learning, working and living environment free from discrimination and harassment.
Harassment is a form of discrimination and a breach of the Ontario Human Rights Code and Humber's Human Rights Policy.
What is Harassment?
Harassment in section 10(1) of the Ontario Human Rights Code and workplace harassment (personal/psychological harassment) in section 1(1)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act are defined as "engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome." This definition includes any behaviour that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be offensive, embarrassing or humiliating to other individuals. Such conduct may or may not be based on any of the prohibited grounds identified in the Ontario Human Rights Code and includes visual representations, electronic messages including emails and social media posts, written messages, and verbal and/or physical conduct.
Examples of harassment include but are not limited to:
What isn't harassment?
Harassment or workplace harassment does not occur when a supervisor/manager gives legitimate direction or instructions to an employee in the course of their employee. It also does not occur when performance reviews are conducted in accordance with the College's Faculty Evaluation Procedure, or its equivalent.
Incivility is generally defined as an instance of behaviour such rudeness, discourteousness, or impoliteness. Incivility, while inappropriate behaviour in the workplace, on its own, would not meet the threshold of harassment.
For more information, please see Humber's Human Rights Policy at humber.ca/policies/human-rights-policy.
For questions pertaining to Humber's Human Rights Policy and Complaint Resolution Procedure, please contact humanrights@humber.ca.
Thank you for your continued commitment to an inclusive working, learning and living environment at the College.
Donate food to feed a hungry soul.
The simple act of genuine kindness can feed families, and Humber Athletics wants to pay YOUR kindness forward. Therefore, kindly drop off your non-perishable food items to the Athletics Centre’s Customer Service Desk located in the “A” building of the North Campus by Friday, December 17, 2021.
Many thanks from the Humber Athletics Team.
The Humber Archives serves not only to preserve the history of Humber College, but to put it on display! We invite you to visit us on the 4th floor of the LRC, where you can explore five display cases full of archival material. The displays will change on an ongoing basis, but current displays include a/v material, buttons, and the beginning of the campus in 1967.
As we are entering into the holiday season, the Archives have just mounted a new display looking back at the holiday season at Humber in 1971. The display features articles from an issue of the student newspaper, "Coven" featuring very 1970s holiday images and snowy stories.
We encourage all of you, as find yourself back on campus, to check out these ever changing exhibits (Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. the current displays run until the end of December). To learn more, please connect with us at archives@humber.ca