Fiscal year-end is fast approaching. If you or your faculty/department are planning to order service assets (laptops, iPads, etc.) before the end of 2020/21 fiscal year and have not already done so, please do not delay. Service Assets are computers, laptops, mobile devices (tablets, phones, etc.), peripherals (monitors, docking stations, etc.) and any other end-user computer related item ordered through ITS.

Due to supply constraints, service assets are experiencing delivery delays. To ensure billing within the current fiscal year, it is strongly recommended that all your purchase orders and related purchasing activities are completed no later than Friday, January 15, 2021.

Reminder: For service asset purchases to be captured in the current fiscal year’s budget they must be fully received and invoiced before March 31, 2021.

Please remember the procurement process (requisition, budget approval, etc.) often takes a few days. Please do not delay, contact Humber’s Request Fulfillment Coordinator for assistance.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact Arthur Serwaczak, Manager of Technology Support.

On September 19, 2019, the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Taskforce launched the Employment Equity Video Series and the first video, Call to Action on Employment Equity, at Humber’s Strategic Plan Town Hall Meeting. Employment Equity related videos are one of the many mechanisms that the EDI Taskforce will be using to illustrate senior leaderships’ commitment to increase the hiring of qualified diverse individuals at Humber.

The second video in this series, What does Employment Equity mean to you?, features Farzad Rayegani, Senior Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology.

To view the video, please visit Humber’s Employment Equity Program website.

On behalf of Ian Crookshank, Dean of Students, and I, deep thanks to the EDI Taskforce members.

Nancy Simms M.A. ADR
Lead, EDI Taskforce
Director, Human Rights, Equity & Diversity

Managers now have an option to download an .ics calendar file to display an employee’s upcoming absence in their own calendar. This file will be available to download through the HRMS Bell notification area and within the absence request notification email.

Note - the .ics calendar file download will be a static absence entry, which means, if the absence request is modified within the HRMS, the manager must download a new .ics file and delete the old one from their calendar.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced the relaunching of the Connection Grants arm of the Initiative for Digital Citizen Research (IDCR) which is a joint initiative with the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH) and one component of Canadian Heritage’s Digital Citizen Initiative.

The IDCR aims to develop a better understanding of the impacts of online disinformation in Canada, in order to better inform programs and policies, and to build Canada’s capacity to conduct research on – and related to – countering online disinformation and other related online harms. This initiative will also help foster a community of researchers engaged with digital citizenship and online disinformation in Canada.  

IDCR funding will be offered to meritorious and relevant projects submitted to the Connection Grants funding opportunity starting from (application deadline) February 1, 2021. 

In addition to the relaunched IDCR-CGs, IDCR will continue to offer funding through IDCR Insight Grants supplements; IDCR Postdoctoral Fellowship supplements for SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship holders; and IDCR Doctoral Award supplements for holders of SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships or Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program—Doctoral Scholarships.  

For more information on IDCR funding and how to apply, please refer to the joint initiative description.

For more information on grants, please contact the Office of Applied Research and Innovation at research@humber.ca.