The dates for the Fall 2019 Convocation Ceremonies at the Toronto Congress Centre are as follows:

The application to graduate will open on Monday, September 23 on MyHumber, under Student Records>Apply to Attend Convocation. This application will close approximately 2 weeks prior to the event.

Faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to wear their graduation regalia. For rental or purchase enquiries, please contact: Gaspard and Sons Ltd, at gaspard.ca or call 1.800.380.8214. Please check humber.ca/convocation for further details.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Angela Davis

Dr. Angela Davis is an international icon known for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the United States and abroad. Her work as an educator has always emphasize the importance of building communities of struggles for economic, racial and gender equality. She is the author of nine books, most recently: Abolition Democracy, Are Prisons Obsolete and The Meaning of Freedom and has lectured worldwide. Her work draws upon her own experiences as a person who spent 18 months in jail and on trial, after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List” for a crime she did not commit.

Join us as she launches our 6th Annual Humber Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning Academic conference at TIFA (Humber@TIFA)

Dr.Davis will be delivering the keynote address on The (re)Making of a Movement: New Perspectives on the 1960s Counterculture.

Date: November 2, 2019

Time: 9 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.

Location: Fleck Dance Theatre, Queen's Quay Harbourfront  207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto

Price: $25

Tickets available through the TIFA (Toronto International Festival of Authors) box office: https://festivalofauthors.ca/events/the-remaking-of-a-movement-new-perspectives-on-the-1960s-counterculture-by-angela-davis

Humber College and the University of Guelph-Humber (Humber) are leaders in providing a learning, working and living environment that recognizes and values equity, diversity and inclusion in all its programs and services.

Humber proudly endorsed the Dimensions: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Canada Charter.

Through endorsing the Dimensions Charter, Humber commits to adopting the principles throughout the College's policies, practices and culture to achieve greater equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). This commitment reflects ongoing and productive engagement with the Humber community. The Dimensions Charter principles are:

1. The post-secondary research community has the greatest potential to thrive when members experience equitable, inclusive and unbiased systems and practices.
2. To advance institutional equity, diversity and inclusion, specific, measurable and sustainable actions are needed to counter systemic barriers, explicit and unconscious biases, and inequities. This includes addressing obstacles faced by, but not limited to, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minority or racialized groups, and members of LGBTQ2+ communities.
3. Institutions require qualitative and quantitative data to measure, monitor, understand and publicly report on challenges and progress made. The analysis of the data should inform a comprehensive, in-depth, intersectional understanding of the contexts, manifestations and experiences that result from inequities, underrepresentation and exclusion among all post-secondary community members.
4. When equity, diversity and inclusion considerations and practices are integral to research participation, to the research itself, and to research training and learning environments, research excellence, innovation and creativity are heightened across all disciplines, fields of study and stages of career development.
5. To contribute to reconciliation, research with, by or impacting Indigenous Peoples must align with the research policies and best practices identified through ongoing engagement with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples and their organizations.
6. Advancing equity, diversity and inclusion is a shared responsibility that requires dedicated resources and strong leadership at all levels. Senior leadership demonstrates commitment through public endorsement, by ensuring the work involved is resourced and distributed fairly, and by embedding changes in institutional governance and accountability structures.
7. Issues of institutional and individual safety, trust, belonging, privacy and power differentials must be recognized and pro-actively addressed; this will be most successful when those impacted are directly engaged in defining the actions.
8. Achieving the overall objective of the Dimensions program—to foster increased research excellence, innovation and creativity within the post-secondary sector across all disciplines through increased equity, diversity and inclusion—involves institutional collaboration, transparency, and the sharing of challenges, successes and promising practices.
   (Source: nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/EDI-EDI/Dimensions_Dimensions_eng.asp)

Humber's EDI Implementation Plan incorporates the principles of the Dimensions Charter. For information on Humber’s EDI Implementation Plan, please visit the EDI Taskforce website.

The Centre for Teaching & Learning is pleased to announce a final call for applications for the Teaching Innovation Fund.

About the fund: The fund includes $1,400 per investigator and support in developing and conducting a research project about teaching and learning. There are typically two types of projects: “Build” projects, in which you develop and build a new, evidence-based teaching tool or approach, and “Impact” projects, in which you measure the impact of an innovative teaching tool or approach with your students. 

For more information and to access the application form, see the attached documents. To hear from faculty that have previously conducted research with the fund, visit the CTL's YouTube channel.

The deadline for applications is Friday, September 13 at 5 p.m.

Applications may be submitted to CTLResearch@humber.ca.