An assembly of faculty, support staff, students, and administrators, Humber Polytechnic Council (HPC) is Humber’s collective employee voice, making suggestions to Humber Polytechnic’s President as it relates to long and short‐term institutional priorities.

At its fifth meeting of the academic year, Humber Polytechnic Council (HPC) welcomed presentations on Revenue Generation and the Humber Learning Outcomes.

REVENUE GENERATION

Dr. Gina Antonacci, Senior Vice-President, Academic & Dr. Derek Stockley, Associate Vice-President, Academic

To generate revenue generation and efficiency ideas that could contribute to supporting Humber as it navigates the current fiscal climate, a discussion was held with HPC. The discussion was one of several discussions being held and spearheaded by the Academic division across the institution.

STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY: HUMBER LEARNING OUTCOMES E-MODULES

Vera Beletzan, Associate Vice-President, Teaching and Learning, Jennifer Larson, Director, Strategic Initiatives, and Diane Simpson, Principal, Humber Downtown

As part of Building Brilliance and its focus on student employability, Humber has created modules focusing on the Humber Learning Outcomes (HLO) and the cores skills and mindsets that support student employability. These optional, asynchronous, self-guided modules will be available later this fall. In total, there are twelve one-hour modules corresponding to the eight HLO skills and four mindsets. They will be available through the My Employability Journey website, Blackboard, and HRMS. Staff are encouraged to embed them in their courses and programs, or employee learning and development.

NEXT HPC MEETING

The next Humber Polytechnic Council meeting will be held in person on Thursday, May 22, 2025.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS about HPC meeting highlights, contact regan.mancini@humber.ca. For all other inquiries, contact shovani.samalia@humber.ca.

Next week, Humber will introduce the new Downtown Campus webpages as part of the transition to a new Digital Experience Platform (DXP) that is transforming our website and the user experience on it.

Users will notice that the Downtown Campus webpages have been redesigned to enhance their onsite experience.

Research for the pages included extensive case study use along with profiles of current students and alumni to share their experience of Humber's Downtown Campus and the relevance, value and amenities available while studying in downtown Toronto.

The pages will also feature new content to support and highlight the Downtown Campus’ unique benefits. Industry connections and opportunities for participation are also included.

This launch continues our "Experience First" approach to migrating and implementing websites to DXP, focused on clarity about site audience, the journey being supported and the results that are most valued. 

The new Downtown Campus webpages follow the model for other future Humber sites. After this launch, additional webpages will be updated in the coming months with other websites being prioritized to be migrated to DXP and the new design.

As Builders of Brilliance, Humber continues to define polytechnic education and reimagine learning. That includes providing an unparalleled student experience in person, on campus and digitally from our first interactions. The DXP is a reflection of this commitment that includes an integrated suite of tools and apps to create meaningful relationships with our prospects, students and alumni as they become engaged with Humber on our websites and digital media.  

DXP is Humber’s investment in a new web platform that will support a radically enhanced online experience for all websites within the humber.ca domain. Learn more in the Communiqué post “What is DXP?” 

The DXP-enabled humber.ca website is part of the Digital Student Experience (DSX) Program that emerged from the 2023-2026 Digital Campus and Academic Plans and focuses on enhancing the digital student experience. 

Ruth Butlin and Andrew Leopold 
Project Co-Sponsors 

Notice to Faculty

The Humber Test Centres at both the North and Lakeshore campuses will be restricted to students who are registered with ALS and have accommodations for the final exam period.

The North Campus Test Centre will be closed to unaccommodated students from Saturday, April 12 through Saturday, April 26, inclusive. The Lakeshore Campus Test Centre will only test accommodated students Monday, April 14 to Friday, April 25, inclusive.

Please make other arrangements for your students who have missed tests or whose exam time conflicts with another of their examinations. Testing of non-accommodated students will resume on April 28 at both campuses.

NB: April 18 is a holiday and the test centres will be closed.

This is a reminder to all budget holders to monitor your open purchase orders (POs) as the new fiscal year approaches. Any open regular purchase orders that are $100 or more will be rolled over to the new fiscal year (2025/26) on April 1. All others, including standing orders, will be closed.

In addition, budget holders should be aware that invoices received after March 31 for the rolled over POs will be expensed against new fiscal budget.

Please send a request to Purchasing (purchasing@humber.ca) to close any of your open fiscal 2024/25 regular ‘reverse’ purchase orders or standing orders.