When:
March 12, 2018
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster
The School of Social and Community Services is pleased to announce its latest edition of the Dean's Newsletter (Vol 4, 2017).
Announcements
The Community Outreach and Workforce Development (COWD) deparment is currently accepting magazine donations for students of Humber's Youth Transition Program. A few examples include National Geographic, Flare, Vogue, Time, Outdoor Living, Wired, etc.
If you've got magazines at home that you would like to donate, please drop them off at North Campus room H-221 any time between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
The last day to donate your magazines is March 16.
Thank you in advance for your support!
This year’s admission campaign incorporates the theme of Destination Humber. The focus is to differentiate Humber from its competitors and create enthusiasm about Humber: the destination of choice. Once applicants apply to Humber, they receive an acknowledgment email, which is followed by a postcard that introduces them to this theme.
The Destination Humber theme is reinforced in the offer of admission letters, Welcome Package and subsequent electronic communications. Students who receive an offer of admission are directed to the Future Students page, which encourages them to confirm their offer of admission, post on social media and hear from current students about why Humber was their preferred destination. Check out the Welcome Video here:
humber.ca/futurestudents/guide-to-humber/admissions-road-map/confirm-your-offer.html
Open House Signature
I’d like to invite you to add the Open House image to your email signature.
Here’s how you can include in your email signature:
- Select the above image with your cursor; just the same as you do text
- press Control + C to copy image
- Go to the 'File' tab
- Select ‘Options’
- Select ‘Mail’
- Select ‘Signatures’
- Place cursor where you’d like the image to go, press Control + P to paste image
- Save signature by clicking ‘OK
Thanks in advance for raising the awareness of Open House and encouraging applicants choose #destinationhumber.
Jennifer Smith
Manager, Admissions
When:
March 9, 2018
Thank you to all the students who completed the Humber Libraries survey in February! We are in the process of analyzing the results and will publish them soon, but here's a hint of what we're seeing.
- 5,059 students completed the survey
- 81% of respondents are satisfied or very satisfied with library resources
- 81% of respondents were very satisfied or satisfied with the quality of library services
- 78% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that afer a visit by a librarian to their class, they did better on their assignments
When:
March 9, 2018
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’ OER Team: Caleb Domsy (caleb.domsy@humber.ca) or Lisa DiBarbora (lisa.dibarbora@humber.ca).
Contact Humber’s Director of Digital Curriculum: Theresa Steger (theresa.steger@humber.ca).
When:
March 8, 2018
If one of our students came to you asking for your help to make it through the year, and you knew buying them a latte or two would you help solve their problem, would you do it? Yes – without a doubt.
Like Alison Maclean, you can make a real difference to talented and hardworking Humber students by making a donation through payroll deduction to support Humber scholarships and awards.
The Humber Gives campaign runs until the end of March, however tomorrow is the last day that TD Insurance Meloche Monnex will match new gifts. Double your impact now through payroll deduction, monthly giving or a one-time gift.
See why Alison chooses to give by watching this year’s campaign video.
Should you have any questions on how to give, please contact Cynthia Luey, Annual Giving Officer, x4975 or cynthia.luey@humber.ca.
Family, friends and colleagues have been contributing to a new scholarship in memory of Jeoff Bull, professor, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
You still have the opportunity to donate to this new endowed scholarship in the following ways:
Online: Click here
By phone: 416.673.0152
In person: North Campus, Advancement and Alumni, LRC, 5th Floor
By mail: Send a cheque, payable to “Humber College”, to Advancement and Alumni, LRC 5th Floor, 205 Humber College Blvd. Toronto ON M9W 5L7.
When:
March 8, 2018
Recall from Tuesday’s post that Creative Commons licensing allows creators to grant others permission to use their media freely. Media can be illustrations, photos, videos, sounds and more – all of which have many purposes within education.
It can be difficult to determine if a video, song, or "googled" image has been posted with permission. Therefore, start with the following Creative Commons portals instead:
- Wikimedia Commons – a collection of 45 million freely usable visual and audio media files to which anyone can contribute
- Flickr Commons – hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives
- ccMixter – music database that features sound effects and remixed music
- reveal.js – open software that challenges the Office suite paradigm is hard to find.
- Vimeo and YouTube – use the search filter settings to limit results to only Creative Commons videos.
Want to learn more?
Visit the Humber Library’s copyright website, library.humber.ca/copyright, for links to more open media resources.
Stay tuned for the conclusion to the Open Education Week series.
When:
March 7, 2018
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster
ALL IT SYSTEMS AT ALL CAMPUSES, including the University of Guelph-Humber will be unavailable due to IT system maintenance.
Starting: Saturday, March 10 at 6:00 p.m.
Ending: Sunday, March 11 at 8:00 a.m.
Affected Services: All technology and information services will be unavailable as of 6:00 p.m. including Banner, MyHumber, Blackboard, e-mail, corporate websites, Wi-Fi network, and lab computers.
Reason: Systems in the main data center will be shut down in order to facilitate regular maintenance work.
For more information or if you have questions, please contact the I.T. Support Centre at 416.675.6622 x8888 or supportcentre@humber.ca.
When:
March 7, 2018
Please note that it has come to our attention that all Humber T4s that were issued on February 23, 2018 are missing an important piece of information. Box 26 on the T4 forms that were generated do not display the correct amount for each employee’s actual CPP pensionable earnings (not related to CAAT Pension).
The Humber HR team is amending the original T4s to include the amounts for CPP pensionable earnings and the corrected file will be sent to Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) by the end of this week. The corrected T4s will also be reprinted and hard copies will be mailed to all employees next week.
If you have already proceeded with filing your 2017 taxes using the T4 you received, please consult the following link for information as to how to refile your taxes:
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. For additional information, please review the frequently asked questions (FAQs) at hrs.humber.ca/t4.
You may also contact your Payroll Coordinator, as follows:
| Payroll Coordinator | Phone | Your last name starts with |
| Mariella Karakehayova | x4864 | A-F, X, Y, Z |
| Lizz Velasquez | x4147 | N-W |
| Wendy Wei | x4042 | G-M |
If you have additional questions, please contact payroll@humber.ca or Valerie Bardy, Payroll Manager at x4223.