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At Humber, student success and retention are institutional priorities; understanding our students is essential to provide focus for student success initiatives. Every year, three in four incoming students successfully complete their first year. However, one in four leave the college within the first year.  It is imperative that Humber is able to identify students at risk of attrition and initiate timely interventions.

The Humber Student Success Survey (HSSS), is one means of identifying students at risk. The survey is administered each year to students in all semesters. The four purposes of the survey are:

• To understand our diverse student population in terms of sociodemographic and other factors (e.g., culture and ethnicity, sexual identity, disabilities) so that we can assess the extent to which we are meeting their needs;
• To understand students’ academic and career goals and the extent to which we are meeting them;
• To identify students who may be at risk of attrition; and
• To gain a broad understanding of students’ support needs to allow for service planning and resource allocation.

All students in full-time programs received their personal survey through email today (Friday, October 23). The survey will remain open until Friday, November 6.

Please help us to ensure a strong response to this survey by encouraging students in all years and full-time programs to complete the survey so that we can continue to make a positive impact in their success!

Thank you in advance for your support!

Earlier this month, Jennifer Larson began a secondment as the Public Affairs Manager with the Government Relations, Marketing and Communications team. Jennifer will be covering Jenna Donelson’s maternity leave, and we wish Jenna all the best.

Jennifer joined Humber in 2017 as the Partnership Development Manager and has since taken on the role of Strategic Communications and Innovation Manager. She has developed and implemented a multi-year communications strategy to increase awareness of ARI’s activities, led ongoing strategic communications for the Barrett CTI and developed communications to build profile for Humber’s industry-academia partnership model and the Advanced Manufacturing Skills Consortium.

Jennifer will be focused on strengthening Humber’s relationships across multiple levels of government to further the college’s strategic objectives, and providing advice and leadership to identify and steward the college’s responses to funding, policy or legislative opportunities. Jennifer will also act as the lead in supporting community consultations and communications for the Humber Cultural Hub project.

The health and safety of Humber staff and students is our top priority. With that in mind, we have created a webpage to provide clear, step-by-step instructions for everyone on campus and at home who may have questions about when and how to report COVID-19.

I encourage you to bookmark the page (humber.ca/campus-return/covid-19-reporting-humber-when-and-how-report) and visit it whenever you have COVID-19 reporting questions and want to know what to do next.

Please be reminded that if you are feeling unwell or exhibiting any COVID-19 related symptoms, do not come to campus.

As always, visit humber.ca/updates, humber.ca/campus-return and humber.ca/hroe/hr/health-safety/covid-19-resources for the latest updates and information on the full range of COVID-19 topics.

Stay well, 

Lori Diduch

Faculty of Applied and Sciences Technology (FAST), Continuing Education department launches a new program called Home Efficiency Retrofit Orientation (HERO). HERO is developed in partnership with Enbridge Gas and delivered in collaboration with different Ontario municipalities such as City of Toronto and City of Vaughan.

The Home Efficiency Retrofit Orientation (HERO) program helps homeowners incorporate best practice energy-efficiency upgrades in home renovations that improve comfort, resilience, peace of mind, GHG reductions, and lower energy costs. The session will provide insights on eligible rebate programs and topics covered include: Heating/Cooling systems, Insulation, Windows, Hot Water Heating & reducing Air Leakage. It is geared toward single-family homeowners (i.e. detached, semi-detached, townhome house types).

This is a two-hour session delivered virtually, and free of charge to the homeowners.

If you are City of Toronto resident and interested in attending this session, register here.

If you are City of Vaughan resident and interested in attending this session, register here.

FAST is currently working on making this session available to the residents of other municipalities. If you would like to enquire if this session will be available in your area, please email: ceappliedtech@humber.ca.