Announcements

New Return to Campus Microsite
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When:
July 8, 2020

The new return to campus microsite is now open: https://humber.ca/campus-return

Staff can now use the link in student communications and social media posts. There will also be a link to the site from the main homepage.

This return to campus microsite provides the information you need to know about planning for your return to campus.

We will continue to update this site and encourage you to check back regularly for new information. For the latest updates on the impact of COVID-19 on our activities, please visit www.humber.ca/updates.

#TidBitTours
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When:
July 8, 2020
Contact:
Nadine Finlay
Email:
nadine.finlay@humber.ca
Alex and Nadine from the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre

Introducing #TidBitTours!

This summer, join the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre - remotely! Alex and Nadine will be bringing you mini-tours in 15 seconds or less to keep sharing content while physical distancing.

Watch the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre's Instagram story at @LakeshoreGRNDS every Thursday, or catch up with past weeks on Instagram Highlights. Send us your questions by direct message or email at info@lakeshoregrounds.ca for the latest information from the team at the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre.

Humber Galleries Call for Kids' Artwork
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When:
July 8, 2020
Contact:
Casey Norris
Email:
casey.norris@humber.ca

Humber Galleries Virtual Field Trips and Call for Kids' Artwork

Quarantots – Kids Creating Artwork for Seniors and Essential Workers

Humber Galleries is excited to announce our new call for artwork: #Quarantots!

This summer, Humber Galleries has partnered with some wonderful cultural institutions and attractions around Toronto to create some brand new Quarantots Virtual Field Trips. Each Tuesday we'll be posting a special virtual field trip or online exhibition on our social media channels for you to visit from the comfort of your own home. All you have to do is explore the weekly exhibitions and turn one of the pieces you see there into a brand new work of art! Once you've got your masterpiece is complete you can send us a photo on social media using the hashtag #Quarantots or through the submissions form below and we'll add it to a special online gallery at the following Monday.

These artworks won’t just be online though! We want to bring some colour and positivity to the residents and front-line workers at long-term care homes. We’ve partnered with a few long-term care homes around Toronto that are beyond excited to receive some kids’ art that they can display. Let’s help bring more creativity and positivity and show them we are thinking of them! 

Check out humbergalleries.ca/quarantots or @Humbergalleries on social media for more info on how to get involved.

Hot Off the Virtual Presses: Issue 3 of Shore Stories
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When:
July 8, 2020
Cover of Shore Stories zine edition No. 3 featuring the shoreline of Lake Ontario with rocky edge, blue water, and skyline of Toronto in distance.

Looking for some summer reading? Why not check out the latest edition of Shore Stories - it's hot off the (virtual) presses!

Shore Stories is the official zine of the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre. We publish three times a year, and use it as a place to feature small stories that connect to the Lakeshore Grounds region. We include contributors from our staff, students, volunteers, and community members.

Issue 3 features: 

  1. ​Tree Swallows by Terry Smith
  2. ​Feeling of Impending Renaissance by Alex Sein
  3. ​Streaming the Lakeshore Grounds by Jennifer Bazar
  4. ​Going Digital by Nadine Finlay
  5. ​New Toronto: Then and Now by Sheriza Anne de Guzman
  6. ​Wartime Media Updated by Jim Tate
  7. ​Reviewing the Pandemic History of the Hospital by Jennifer Bazar
  8. ​We Need Nature by Irene Cholewka

​To read online, visit: lakeshoregrounds.ca/soundscapes

Past editions are also available online. Happy reading!​

 

If you would like to offer feedback on any of our issues, or contribute to a future zine edition, please, reach out to the Editor and Assistant Curator, Nadine Finlay, at info@lakeshoregrounds.ca​​

Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity 2019/2020 At a Glance Report
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When:
July 6, 2020
Contact:
Nancy Simms
Email:
nancy.simms@humber.ca
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity (Centre) continues to have the privilege of serving the Humber Community through this time of physical distancing and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We take this opportunity to share the Centre’s 2019/2020 At a Glance Report highlighting some of the Centre’s achievements over the past academic year.

Deep thanks to the Humber Community for supporting Humber’s Human Rights, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion education and work. We are as successful as you enable us to be.

 

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

Knowledge Sharing
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When:
July 3, 2020
Contact:
Zareena Khan
Tel:
x4825
Email:
zareena.khan@humber.ca
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster
The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity

What is Solidarity?

“Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite…. Solidarity requires sustained ongoing commitment.” – bell hooks

2020 League Innovation of the Year Winner
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When:
July 3, 2020
Contact:
Falisha Rowe
Email:
falisha.rowe@humber.ca
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Congratulations to SieuMoi Ly and Mary Lee on being awarded the League 2020 Innovation of the Year Award for their project, "Dispute Resolution Clinic."

In January 2019, a student led Dispute Resolution Clinic (DRC) was launched under the leadership of the IGNITE student government Services Director, SieuMoi Ly, and the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program Coordinator, Mary Lee. Inspiration for the on-campus DRC was taken from the community Dispute Resolution Clinic, which was launched in 2013 in partnership with St. Stephen’s Community House. The ADR students provided free conflict coaching and mediation services to residents in the Etobicoke area. Drawing from this experience, the services in the on-campus DRC began with supporting students experiencing personal conflicts to issues between tenants and landlords. The DRC service has enabled support for students navigating interpersonal conflicts including group-project conflicts, cultural conflicts, and even relationship conflicts. The DRC services established a foothold of successful services that enabled the expansion of service offering in coordination with the Humber Student Registrar's office with a focus on Academic Appeal process support. The DRC also offers a unique opportunity for students in the ADR graduate program to apply their knowledge with real world experiences by providing conflict coaching, mediation and academic appeal guidance support to students in need for their field placement. The valuable service of the DRC continues to enable students' overall academic success by providing them with life skills to navigate what are sometimes emotionally charged situations, and helping students with the transition to a higher learning environment.

Thank you SieuMoi and Mary for your dedication in creating an innovative and engaging learning environment for students and your commitment to student wellness!

2020 Humber Innovation of the Year Winner
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When:
July 3, 2020
Contact:
Falisha Rowe
Email:
falisha.rowe@humber.ca
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Congratulations to Elinor Bray-Collins and Sara Hassan on being awarded the Humber 2020 Innovation of the Year Award for their project, "Map It to Win It - Adapting a Global Systems Thinking Competition to the Polytechnic Classroom."

In 2019-2020, Sara Hassan and Elinor Bray-Collins collaborated to bring the University of Oxford’s Map the System (MTS) competition to Humber. They successfully adapted this global systems-thinking challenge to a polytechnic setting by developing real-world skills and mindsets in their students, helping them become global citizens who lead and innovate. They invited guest speakers to their classrooms and designed authentic problem-finding assignments on social and environmental challenges. They facilitated an institution-wide MTS competition, with the winning team competing nationally and receiving the Audience Choice Award for their examination of the water crisis in Canada’s Indigenous communities. Due to Sara and Elinor’s creativity and commitment, Humber students were showcased on the national stage, making Humber one of the first Canadian polytechnics to participate in MTS, and creating a framework for future iterations of systems-thinking programming at Humber.

Thank you Elinor and Sara for your dedication to the student learning experience and commitment to developing career-ready citizens!

COVID-19 Update – July 2 – How to Report COVID-19 Status to Humber
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When:
July 2, 2020

As you may know, Humber will begin to have limited numbers of students, staff and faculty return to campus beginning in July. The health and well-being of our community remains our top priority as we gradually reopen our campuses. 

As we did before closing our campuses in March, we ask that if a member of the Humber community has or thinks they may have COVID-19, that they report it confidentially to the following designated staff:

Sharing Knowledge
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When:
July 2, 2020
Contact:
Zareena Khan
Tel:
x4825
Email:
Zareena.Khan@humber.ca
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

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

Anti-Indigenous Racism

anti-Indigenous racism

Anti-Indigenous racism is the ongoing race-based discrimination, negative stereotyping, and injustice experienced by Indigenous Peoples within Canada. It includes ideas and practices that establish, maintain and perpetuate power imbalances, systemic barriers, and inequitable outcomes that stem from the legacy of colonial policies and practices in Canada.

Systemic anti-Indigenous racism is evident in discriminatory federal policies such as the Indian Act and the residential school system. It is also manifest in the overrepresentation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian criminal justice and child welfare systems, as well as inequitable outcomes in education, well-being, and health. Individual lived experiences of anti-Indigenous racism can be seen in the rise in acts of hostility and violence directed at Indigenous people.

Anti-Black Racism

anti-Black racism

Anti-Black racism is prejudice, attitudes, beliefs, stereotyping and discrimination that is directed at people of African descent and is rooted in their unique history and experience of enslavement and its legacy. Anti-Black racism is deeply entrenched in Canadian institutions, policies and practices, to the extent that anti-Black racism is either functionally normalized or rendered invisible to the larger White society. Anti-Black racism is manifest in the current social, economic, and political marginalization of African Canadians, which includes unequal opportunities, lower socio-economic status, higher unemployment, significant poverty rates and overrepresentation in the criminal justice and child welfare systems.

Recommended readings and videos

  1. Truth and Reconciliation: Commission of Canada. (2015).
  2. Saad, Layla, F. (2020). Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor. Illinois: Sourcebooks.
  3. Di Angelo, Robin. (2020). How ‘white fragility’ defines racism [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/YvIO2GU8yTU

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