Next week the CTL will be hosting a variety of learning and engagement opportunities. Please register at the links below: 

TT: Enabling the Digital SFQ in Blackboard 

Are you currently part of the Digital SFQ rollout? If so, enabling the SFQ tool in your Blackboard environment/course site is a critical step in encouraging your students to fill out the SFQ and increasing your student response rates. Enabling the tool is easy to do and combining tool availability with well-timed Blackboard announcements and reminders is an effective way of deploying the Digital SFQ. In addition to the scheduled workshop times below, faculty can drop in anytime during Studio hours to receive one-on-one support when it comes to enabling the Blackboard SFQ tool and any other Blackboard related support queries.

Visit the full CTL Calendar for a complete listing of Fall 2018 workshops.

The Humber Research Ethics Board (HREB) reviews all research involving human participants that takes place within the Humber community. The HREB’s responsibility is to ensure that all research involving human participants aligns with the standards set by the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS): Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans.

In an April 2018 Humber Communiqué announcement, the HREB placed a call for expressions of interest for new board members and received an overwhelming response. To ensure the HREB equitably represented the Humber community, new members have been selected based on their expertise in a variety of areas.

We are pleased to announce the following new board members:

Dr. Mojgan Rezvani, Faculty – School of Health Sciences
Dr. Jennifer Bazar, Curator, Office of the Principal
Mr. Audel Cunningham, Faculty – The Business School
Dr. Jeffrey Semple, Faculty – School of Health Sciences
Ms. Rita Kohli, External Community Member

New REB Chair appointment:

On behalf of President Chris Whitaker, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Lydia Boyko as the Chair of the Humber REB.

Lydia Boyko is a faculty member in Humber’s School of Media Studies & Information Technology and serves on the Executive Committee of Humber College Council. Dr. Boyko joined Humber full time in 2011 after more than 20 years of business experience in the private sector, with a focus on government and investor relations in the financial services sector, and several years as a partial-load business professor at the postsecondary level. Lydia has been an HREB member since 2014.

Lydia will bring leadership, expertise, and guidance to the HREB when she assumes the role of HREB Chair, effective September 29, 2018. Please join us in congratulating Lydia on her appointment.

To learn more about the Humber Research Ethics Board, including all members of the committee, please visit our website.

Gina Antonacci
Associate Vice-President, Academic

As the membership of the Humber Research Ethics Board (HREB) shifts this semester, Jasteena Dhillon will be stepping down from the Humber Research Ethics Board (HREB) where she served for the past six years, two of those years as Chair.

Jasteena Dhillon is a faculty member in the Business School at Humber. Trained as a lawyer, Jasteena came to Humber after completing a human rights fellowship at the Carr Centre for Human Rights in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and at Harvard Law School. Over the past 20 years, she has worked as legal counsel in the Ontario government; as a legal adviser for the United Nations; and as a human rights officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. She was a development expert for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a humanitarian manager for several international NGOs, which took her to South Africa, Bosnia, Albania, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Sudan and Iraq.

In 2016, Jasteena was the first faculty member appointed as Chair, ensuring that the HREB was a faculty driven, peer review body. During Jasteena’s time as Chair, the HREB’s profile has risen within the Humber community. Over the past two years, the HREB has reviewed over 150 applications. Jasteena’s commitment to educating faculty and researchers on the TCPS2 guidelines and advocacy for the importance of research ethics and ethics review has been integral to the success of the HREB. She openly shared information about the HREB’s mandate, role and processes, resulting in an improved understanding of the essential nature of the committee. She played a pivotal role in best practice development and implementation and continually shared new updates from the external research community with other committee members. Additionally, Jasteena wrote and conducted an analysis on the TCPS2 guidelines on consent vs. assent, ethnicity and race, research with children, student led research, working with international participants, and on social justice research.

Jasteena’s term as Chair and as an HREB member will end on September 29, 2018.

On behalf of President Chris Whitaker, I would like to offer Jasteena our sincere gratitude for her dedication and commitment to ensuring that the HREB is a success.

Gina Antonacci
Associate Vice-President, Academic

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