It is with mixed emotions that we share the news that Daniel Fowler, currently the Data Visualization and Analytics Specialist, has accepted the position of Research Specialist at Sheridan College. In the past three years with the Institutional Planning and Analysis department, Daniel has played a key role in the development and management of the College’s Tableau dashboards and delivery of group and one-on-one training sessions for more than 100 academic and non-academic staff. More recently, Daniel supported a major undertaking by Institutional Planning and Analysis, Registrar’s Office and Enterprise Applications to consolidate institutional student data. Last but not least, Daniel directly supported internal and external reporting and was a member of the SEM Marketing, Recruitment and Conversion Committee and the College’s Data Management Group. In all that he did, Daniel showed commitment and passion for his work and the advancement of the College’s goals and priorities through data-driven decision-making. 

Please join us at the North Campus Institutional Planning and Analysis meeting room (LRC6113) on Friday, March 15 between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. for an informal gathering in Daniel’s honour.

Jelena Dukic
Associate Director, Institutional Research
Institutional Planning & Analysis

The (re)Making of a Movement: New Perspectives on the 1960s Counterculture

Abstract Submission: humber.ca/liberalarts-ifoa/call-proposals
Contact: daniel.hambly@humber.ca, jennifer.marotta@humber.ca

Submission Deadline: May 30, 2019

It’s been 50 years since 400,000 people descended on Bethel, New York, for an event that became one of the most important cultural touchstones for a generation: Woodstock. As participants in an amorphous social movement the Woodstock Generation came to be defined in opposition to previous generations. Despite growing up in an era of incredible privilege, widespread government social programs, post-war housing and education, and increasing affluence, they rejected, or attempted to redefine traditional values. In theory, supporters of the counterculture rejected individualism, competition, and capitalism. Rejection of monogamy and the traditional nuclear family gave way to a communal ideal–disavowing individualism and private property in favour of shared food, work, sex. As historian Michael Doyle points out, the myth of Woodstock holds that “in a time of military conflict abroad, racial and ethnic strife at home, when a deep social division known as the ‘generation gap’ separated parents from children, nearly half a million young people removed themselves from proximity to these conflicts and went ‘back to the garden’ to try to ‘set their souls free’.” As such, Woodstock carries a certain symbolic weight for participants in the 1960s and 1970s counterculture movement and for anyone who looks back on the past fifty years with a critical eye.

The counterculture movement encompassed: the Civil Rights Movement, free speech, the new left, anti-war, anti-nuclear, feminism, free school movement, drug culture, environmentalism, student activism, producerism, gay liberation, the sexual revolution, and the rise of hippies to innovations in fashion, music, film, and literature. The American poet John Perry Barlow once said, “I started out as a teenage beatnik and then became a hippie and then became a cyberpunk. And now I’m still a member of the counterculture, but I don’t know what to call that.” How have the various movements within the counterculture evolved over the past 50 years? What did hippies become? Who was the sexual revolution scripted for? How did the civil rights movement evolve? How did a generation that “dropped out” re-engage? How was this fringe culture appropriated by marketers? How challenging was it to live an ideal especially in light of the Cold War and rise of Reaganism?

Our conference committee welcomes individual presentation proposals of 300 words, and panel proposals (three people max) of 900 words, based on any of the above themes. This will be the sixth annual interdisciplinary conference held by Humber College’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Innovative Learning (FLA) of Toronto in association with the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), one of the most celebrated literary festivals in the world. It is located at the Harbourfront Centre, one of downtown Toronto’s major cultural and artistic venues.

Submit your proposal online: humber.ca/liberalarts-ifoa/call-proposals

Thank you for celebrating Open Education Week with the Centre for Teaching and Learning and Humber Libraries.

If you still have questions about what makes a resource open or how you can adopt, remix, or create OERs, we have good news for you. College libraries from across Ontario have collaborated to produce an OER Toolkit.

The OER Toolkit provides information to help faculty understand, engage with, and sustain OER in their work and practice.

Do you have ideas for using or adopting OER but are looking for collaborators? Here are some ways Humber Libraries can help you:

• Collect and do initial vetting of supplementary materials
• Use advanced search skills to find exactly what is needed
• Give options for ways that students can access resources
• Advise on how to make resources more accessible
• Advise on issues of copyright and fair dealing
• Advise on the use of Creative Commons licenses

Source: list adapted from The Learning Portal, CC BY 4.0.

Want to learn more?

Contact Humber Libraries’ copyright department: copyright@humber.ca

Contact Humber’s Director of Digital Curriculum: Theresa Steger (theresa.steger@humber.ca)

In honour of International Women’s Day, we spoke to a few of our alumnae and posed the question:
"What lessons have you learned in life to be successful as a woman?"  Click here to see what our featured alumnae had to say:

Dr. Jill Andrew, Ph.D.
Child and Youth Worker, 1998

Becky Coles
Broadcasting – Radio, 2002

Justine McNeil
Child and Youth Worker, 2014

Lisa Morales
Broadcasting – Radio, 2004

Donna O’Brien-Sokic
Creative Cinematography, 1982

Amber Payie
Broadcasting – Radio, 1994

Kelli Saunders
Marketing, 1985

Asis Sethi
Film and Television Production, 2007

Happy International Women’s Day!