Announcements

When:
April 4, 2019
Contact:
Ravneet Mann
Tel:
x4767
Workshop North Campus Lakeshore Campus
Community of Practice: Curricular Community Service Learning Apr. 8, 2019 – North: D225I
Register: 12 to 1 p.m.
Not available
SoTL Lunch and Learn Apr. 8, 2019 – North: D236
Register: 12 to 1 p.m.
Not available
Introducing Panopto Apr. 9, 2019 – North: D225J
Register: 1:30 to 2:20 p.m.
Apr. 11, 2019 – North: D225J
Register: 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Apr. 8, 2019 – Lake: D112
Register: 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Apr. 10, 2019 – Lake: D112
Register: 1:30 to 2:20 p.m.
Creating Accessible Word Documents Apr. 9, 2019 – North: D225J
Register: 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Apr. 10, 2019 – Lake: D112
Register: 10 to 11:30 a.m.
The Scholar's Cafe Apr. 12, 2019 – North: D225I
Register: 10 to 11 a.m.
Apr. 12, 2019 – Lake: H206 (By Satellite)
Register: 10 to 11 a.m.
Community of Practice: Supporting Humber's International and Multilingual Learns Apr. 12, 2019 – North: D236
Register: 10:45 to 11:35 a.m.
Not available

Please visit the CTL Calendar of Events for a complete list of workshop offerings.

When:
April 4, 2019
Contact:
Bharat Saini
Tel:
ext. 5160

The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and the University of Guelph-Humber (hereafter referred to as “Humber” or “the 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. The College has the right, as well as the legal and moral responsibility, to ensure that all its members are treated fairly, equitably, and respectfully, in order to provide a learning, working and living environment free from discrimination and harassment.

Harassment is a form of discrimination and a breach of the Ontario Human Rights Code and Humber’s Human Rights Policy.

What is Harassment?

Harassment in section 10(1) of the Ontario Human Rights Code and workplace harassment (personal/psychological harassment) in section 1(1)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act are defined as engaging in a course of vexatious comment or conduct that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome. The College interprets this to include any behaviour that is known or ought reasonably to be known to be offensive, embarrassing or humiliating to other individuals. Such conduct may or may not be based on any of the prohibited grounds identified in the Ontario Human Rights Code, and includes visual representations, electronic messages including emails and social media posts, written messages, and verbal and/or physical conduct.

Some examples of harassment are (not an exhaustive list):

  • unwelcome remarks, jokes, slurs, innuendoes or taunting;
  • hazing, stalking or shunning;
  • the repeated mistreatment of one employee or student, targeted by one or more employees or students with a malicious mix of humiliation, intimidation and sabotage of performance (bullying);
  • displaying derogatory or offensive pictures, graffiti or materials either through printed copy or personal computer;
  • verbal abuse;
  • insulting gestures or practical jokes which cause embarrassment or awkwardness;
  • unauthorized and/or unnecessary physical contact;
  • an impassioned, collective campaign by co-workers to exclude, punish and humiliate a targeted worker.

Note: Harassment or workplace harassment (personal/psychological harassment) does not occur where a supervisor gives legitimate directions or instructions to an employee in the course of employment or conducts performance reviews in accordance with the College's Faculty Evaluation Procedure, or its equivalent.

For more information, please see Humber’s Human Rights Policy at humber.ca/policies/human-rights-policy.

For questions pertaining to Humber’s Human Rights Policy and Complaint Resolution Procedure, please contact Nancy Simms, Director of the Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity, at nancy.simms@humber.ca.

Thank you for your commitment to ensuring an inclusive environment free from discrimination and harassment.

When:
April 4, 2019
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Do you have a vision and some great ideas to share about the planning for the future of the College? Give voice to your thoughts - join College Council.

ROLE OF COLLEGE COUNCIL

College Council is the collective voice of the College in that it is an assembly of faculty, support staff, students, and administrators who suggest directions in which the College should proceed. College Council advises the President on those College issues which it considers to be long- and short-term priorities as identified in Humber’s Strategic Plan.

As of 2018, Humber’s three Strategic Pillars provide the foundation for the strategic priorities and corresponding supporting actions:

i. Career-Ready Citizens
ii. Accessible Education
iii. Healthy and Inclusive Community

The Council advises the President of the College in matters affecting academic policy, planning, and practice, including, the successful implementation of Humber’s Strategic Plan initiatives. College policy or business items ultimately proceeding to the College's Board of Governors may appear at College Council at the discretion of the President, before final disposition at the Board of Governors.

Please visit our website for further information:
humber.ca/wearehumber/committees/college-council

COLLEGE COUNCIL
2019 ELECTIONS
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

WHO CAN BE ON COLLEGE COUNCIL?
College Council will be comprised of elected representatives from academic staff members, support staff members, administrative staff members, and students.

REPRESENTATIVES RESPONSIBILITIES ON THE COUNCIL
College Council meets once per month on Thursdays, September to May, from 4 to 8 p.m. A meeting is also held in the first week of June, one day following the annual retreat. It is the representative’s responsibility to represent their constituents by attending meetings and contributing to the discussions, and bringing back information from College Council meetings to their constituents. Members of Council can have the opportunity to become more involved through sub-committee membership.

The College Council Executive would like to acknowledge and thank the following employees who will be leaving Council:

Matt Ramer School of Health Sciences Lydia Boyko, School of Media Studies and Information Technology
Christina Hunter, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences Alison Maclean, School of Creative & Performing Arts
Karen Young, School of Media Studies and Information Technology  

 

COLLEGE COUNCIL CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The following positions are open for nomination/election on College Council for the term June 2019 to June 2021.

Elected Academic Areas
Area of Representation Campus Employee Group Number
Continuing Education All Faculty 1
Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology Carrier Faculty 1
Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology North Faculty 1
Faculty of Business North Faculty 2
Faculty of Business Lake Faculty 1
Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellness North Faculty 3
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning North Faculty 1
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning All Support/Administration 1
Faculty of Media and Creative Arts North Faculty 1
Faculty of Media and Creative Arts Lake Faculty 2
Faculty of Media and Creative Arts All Support/Administration 1
Elected Non-Academic Areas
Area of Representation Campus Employee Group Number
VP Administration & CFO All Admin 1

THE NOMINATION PROCESS

Every potential candidate for College Council must be nominated by TWO constituents in their area. The signed nomination form must then be forwarded to the Vice-Chair of College Council, Denise Rooney, Humber Libraries. Once nominations are closed, potential candidates will be contacted with further information about the election process. If you require further information, please contact Denise Rooney via email or at ext. 3703.

CLOSING DEADLINES:

NOMINATIONS CLOSE at 4:30 P.M. on THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019
ELECTIONS TO BE HELD: WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY, MAY 1 & 3, 2019

BY THIS NOTICE A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS IS MADE

Please forward your completed application form (see attachment) to:
Denise Rooney
Humber Libraries, North Campus, LRC 3024
No later than 4:30 p.m. on Thursday April 18, 2019

When:
April 4, 2019

Thank you for making Earth Week 2019 a success. Please help The Office of Sustainability by filling out this Earth Week feedback survey.

If you have any questions regarding Earth Week or how to get involved with events at the Office of Sustainability, please email Tayler Buchanan at tayler.buchanan@humber.ca.

When:
April 4, 2019

This month's REB Bulletin explores privacy rights when public research is being conducted.

Conducting public research: The impact of privacy rights

Humber researchers often conduct various forms of “public research”. For this discussion, I have chosen to define “public research” as the observation of human subjects in a public setting, the interrogation and/or recording of persons in public spaces or the examination of publicly available human related data and images. Defined in such expansive terms, “public research” would capture research activities such as:

  1. Making general observations of persons in public spaces (for example, the focus of the research may be the interaction of customer service personnel with customers of the business or the manner in which smokers interact with each other in a group setting compared to non-smokers who are also in a group setting);
  2. Interviewing persons in public places (for example, the focus of or a component of the research may be to interview persons who use the post office or other government agencies);
  3. Making video or audio recordings of persons in public spaces (for example, the focus of the research may involve making video recordings of how customers at an airport visually and audibly react to perceived shortcomings in service);
  4. Reviewing and analysing videos, photographs and audio recordings from the internet and social media networks.

An issue common to all of these research activities is the consideration of whether people who are in a “public setting” have a reasonable expectation of privacy and what impact this would have on the research ethics review process.

In conducting ethics reviews of research proposals, Research Ethics Boards (REBs) are guided primary by the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. The latest version, TCPS 2 (2014) provides the following guidance:

1.   REB review is not required for research involving the observation of people in public places where:

  1. it does not involve any intervention staged by the researcher, or direct interaction with the individuals or groups;
  2. individuals or groups targeted for observation have no reasonable expectation of privacy; and
  3. any dissemination of research results does not allow identification of specific individuals.

The application of this guideline means that Humber researchers do not need to submit REB applications where the research to be conducted calls for the mere observation of persons in public spaces, provided that these persons would have no reasonable expectation of privacy in such places.

2.   Research that relies exclusively on information that is publicly available, or made accessible through legislation or regulation, does not require REB review. 

The application of this guideline means that Humber researchers do not need to submit an application for review when the research to be conducted would involve an examination of things such as photographs and recordings which have been legitimately placed in the public domain. For example, research involving a review of political debates to determine the tone of the discourse surrounding Indigenous issues would not require REB review.

3.   REB review is not required where research uses exclusively publicly available information that may contain identifiable information and for which there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.

The TCPS guidance notes that “identifiable information may be disseminated in the public domain through print or electronic publications; film, audio or digital recordings; press accounts; official publications of private or public institutions; artistic installations, exhibitions or literary events freely open to the public; or publications accessible in public libraries.” The application of this guideline means that Humber researchers do not need to submit an application for REB review where the proposed research would, for example, involve determining the reaction of different ethnic groups to specific issues, or where the primary research material is archival footage of interviews conducted with named individuals. The caveat is that it must be clear that the persons who gave the interviews had no reasonable expectation of privacy.

It is clear that an assessment of whether members of the public have a reasonable expectation of privacy in specific circumstances, will be an important determinant of whether research ethics clearance is required for proposed research. In a 2019 case, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has provided guidance that will prove invaluable in making an assessment of when a reasonable expectation of privacy may be deemed to exist even in a public setting.

Many of us are aware of the recent case of R v. Jarvis[1] in which the SCC held that a former teacher at a high school in Ontario was guilty of the Criminal Code offence of voyeurism for having secretly made video recordings of female students. As defined in section 162 (1) of the Criminal Code (the “Code”), the offence of voyeurism involves inter alia, surreptitiously, observing or making a visual recording of a person who is in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy. 

Jarvis made the recordings within the open areas of the school. These were acknowledged to be “public” areas and in light of this, the SCC had to determine whether the students had a reasonable expectation of privacy when they were present in these areas. The SCC appreciated that a key consideration in the application of section 162 (1) of the Code is whether persons who are observed or recorded, are in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy. The Court ruled that even when persons are in a public space, the determinative factor will be whether they are in circumstances in which they would reasonably expect not to be the subject of the type of observation or recording that in fact occurred.

This guidance presented by the Court was in the specific context of an analysis of section 162 (1) of the Code. It is nonetheless useful for informing other determinations of those circumstances in which persons who are in public spaces will have a reasonable expectation of privacy. As such, applying the guidance provided by the SCC, an REB would be quite justified in examining an application involving public research to determine whether research subjects in a public setting such a shopping mall, library or school, would nevertheless have a reasonable expectation that their appearances in such a setting would not be subject to image capturing without their consent for the specific purposes proposed by the researcher. 

This analysis also impacts on social media research. Whereas Facebook users may have their information “open” on their Facebook page, a researcher interested in harnessing images and recordings of these persons for research purposes should demonstrate an appreciation that although the images and recordings have been made publicly available, the users may nevertheless retain an expectation that their identifiable data will not be utilised for research purposes without their explicit consent.

A determination either by the researcher or the REB that a person in a public setting would still have a reasonable expectation of privacy does not necessarily mean that the research would be inappropriate. Rather, it suggests that the researcher has to comply with informed consent protocols and that the REB will have to ensure that these protocols are respected.

It is appreciated that it may not be easy to secure consent from anonymous members of the public. Imagine the example of research involving a study of the users of fertility clinic. The clinic could be located in a public shopping mall but its clients would still have a reasonable expectation of privacy and hence would expect that they would not be recorded without their consent or that such recordings would not be used for research purposes without their consent. The researcher may not feel comfortable in approaching these anonymous members of the public for their consent or it may be impracticable to secure such consent. However, such considerations do not relieve the researcher of the responsibility to ensure that informed consent protocols are properly complied with.

 

Audel Cunningham, LLB, LLM, LLM
Professor, The Business School
Member- Humber College Research Ethics Board

 

[1] 2019 SCC 10

When:
April 4, 2019
Contact:
Heidi Marsh
Tel:
x5836
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

The Centre for Teaching and Learning is happy to share the latest issue of Scholars & Co.

See the full issue attached. 

 

When:
April 4, 2019
Contact:
Harpreet Hansra

After months of hard work and dedication, the Legal and Risk Management team is excited to announce the launch of our brand new website. Our goal with this website is to create a place where members of the College community can go to get trusted, innovative, and professional services, advice and guidance on matters related to contract review, insurance, legal, risk management, privacy, policies and procedures and freedom of information requests. The website also provides information on who to contact if you have questions or need more information.

The new site is live as of April 3, 2019 and can be accessed at humber.ca/legal-and-risk-management.

We hope you enjoy our new website and find the information you are looking for.

Thank you,

Legal and Risk Management Team

When:
April 3, 2019

In the last two weeks, we have celebrated three major award ceremonies - the Barrett Family Foundation Scholarship, the School of Applied Technology Awards and Scholarships and the CISCO Scholarships of Excellence.

I am privileged to have had the opportunity to see our students recognized by industry/community for their hard work and achievements.

To start us off, The Barrett Family Foundation scholarship awards on March 20 focused on the technology programs in the School of Applied Sciences and Technology.

Recognizing student academic achievement, involvement in extracurricular activities and academic performance, more than  140 entrance scholarships were awarded to students who entered our technology programs in fall 2018 and winter 2019.

Next, our school proudly hosted the School of Applied Technology 2018-2019 student award and scholarship event recognizing the academic achievements of our amazing students and the generous donors who help them pursue their dreams.

The highlights from the awards ceremonies included hearing directly from our students, Alister Lagman (Architectural Technology), Jessica Little (Electromechanical Engineering) and Christina Seeman (Electronics Engineering Technology).

Alister Lagman spoke gratefully of the support and recognition from the many donors who made these scholarships possible; and how he was ‘more confident about being on the right path’ in his career goals.  As mature students, both Jessica and Christina spoke of the fulfillment of returning to school to pursue a new career path in engineering, thus increasing the presence of successful females in the industry.

It is with great pride that I take this opportunity to thank all the scholarship recipients for the tremendous effort they’ve put into their academic work. I wish them all the very best in their future endeavors.

Celebratory events like the ones we’ve just had are not possible without the vision of staff who work hard to create a seamless experience for guests, faculty and students alike. I would like to thank Jan Wojcik, Manager, Work Integrated Learning, colleagues from The Advancement and Alumni and photographer Lisa Sakulensky Photography.

In closing, I am reminded again that when students achieve the high level of academic success, it is equally accredited to the faculty and support staff who work hard behind the scenes ensuring our students receive a quality education, preparing them brilliantly for the workforce and giving them the opportunity to do great things for society with their skills and knowledge. To all of you, my heartfelt thanks!

Please take a minute to enjoy some pictures from these celebratory events, please click here

Farzad Rayegani, Ph.D., P.Eng, FEC.
Senior Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology

appliedtechnology.humber.ca

When:
April 3, 2019
Contact:
Sonia Rodrigues
Tel:
x77311
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Please note there will be an external film shoot taking place at Lakeshore Campus on April 5, 2019.

On April 4 there will be a small crew prepping their filming areas at the exterior of F Cottage, G Cottage and H Cottage from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

On April 5 there will be a large crew prepping their filming areas at the exterior of F Cottage, G Cottage, H Cottage as well as Parking Lot 4 from 7 p.m. to 3 p.m.

April 5 filming will take place from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. (Saturday, April 6) in the following areas:

  • Exterior of F, G and H Cottages
  • G Cottage roundabout
  • Parking Lot 4

Please note that Lot 4 will be unavailable all day on April 5, please park in Lot 1. 

Public Safety Security has been arranged to be with this film crew at all times while they are on Humber property.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact sonia.rodrigues@humber.ca.

Thank you,
Humber Conference Services

When:
April 3, 2019

On behalf of the Department of Public Safety, we would like to offer congratulations to our very own Michael Freitas, Access Control Coordinator, for achieving a very high level professional certification. Michael recently received board certification as a Physical Security Professional (PSP) as conferred on him by the ASIS Professional Certification Board after having passed the required examination and meeting all of the certification requirements. He can now proudly display the PSP credential in his signature.  

Michael we are very proud of your achievement, we know how hard you worked. Well done!

Sincerely,

Rob Kilfoyle, CPP, CMM III Security Executive
Director, Public Safety and Emergency Management

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