Everything you need to know about Banner 9 upgrade is available here. We’ll keep you posted on what’s happening as we progress with our planning and implementation phases. Please ensure to check out our website regularly.
The Centre for Innovation in Health & Wellness is collaborating with the Humber Arboretum, School of Applied Technology, TD Friends of the Environment, and the community to create Humber's Food Learning Garden.
The purpose of the Food Learning Garden in the Humber Arboretum is to provide a space to learn about local, healthy food and urban agriculture. The garden will be used primarily to:
The Learning Garden will be another step towards demnostrating Humber's leading role in sustainability and healthy child development.
On November 16th, 2017, the Centre for Innovation in Health & Wellness will be hosting an interactive symposium at the Centre for Urban Ecology in the Humber Arboretum wherein Humber and the community will be encouraged to identity local food issues affecting food security and health in our local community.
Are you interested in collaborating on applied research projects? Let us know your strengths and expertise, and you could join the team of the next big project in your area!
Applied Research & Innovation wants to get to know all of the faculty and staff at Humber who have applied research experience or subject matter expertise. By filling out the form attached, you’re letting us know that you’re interested in working with both students and industry and community partners looking to collaborate with Humber. We’ll gain a better understanding of your skillset, so we can contact you when looking for a project team lead with your expertise!
If you’re interested in getting involved with applied research activities at Humber, please fill in the form attached and send to:
Michelle Bozzetto,
Communications Coordinator, Applied Research & Innovation
michelle.bozzetto@humber.ca
Read this week's issue of Humber Et Cetera here.
The Fall 2017 Learning & Development calendar is now available at hrs.humber.ca/learning
Please view the offline calendar and register here for workshops. There are several new E-learning courses added this fall.
Thank you!
September 30
Orange Shirt Day: Every Child Matters
Honour truth and reconciliation by wearing an orange t-shirt to support Residential School Survivors and to remember the children who never returned home. The legacy of residential schools is a discussion for all Canadians to have. It’s an opportunity to acknowledge survivors and those who have been affected.
For more information, visit: orangeshirtday.org
The Community Outreach and Workforce Development Department is pleased to be welcoming Nivedita Lane to the team as our new Manager of Community Partnership Development. Over the past few years Nivedita has held the position of Coordinator of the First Year Transition Program at Humber College in the Student Success and Engagement Department. In this capacity she has also been responsible for developing and implementing the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Toronto “Pumped for Post-Secondary” program in collaboration with the School of Liberal Arts and Science.
Nivedita brings a strong background in community development and program evaluation. She has worked with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada on National Projects as the Manager of Youth Education Programs and also locally with the Albion Neighbourhood Services in the Rexdale/Jamestown community, in the role of Youth Engagement and Program Coordinator. Among her involvements through this role Nivedita was responsible for overseeing service delivery of education and student success programs and was also the co-chair of the Neighbourhood Action Table in the Rexdale community. In addition to the above experience in community based programing, she has worked as a research assistant with the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth working with the Children’s Program Team.
Nivedita will be bringing both her community based experience and her experience in post-secondary together in this new role. Her educational background consists of a Bachelor of Education and she is in the process of completing her Masters of Education, with a special focus on adult education and community development.
Nivedita will be joining us on September 29th.
Geraldine Babcock
Director, Community Outreach and Workforce Development
Dear Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce a reorganization of the Division of Student and Community Engagement.
In order to continue providing the highest quality of service and to support seamless access and referrals for students, some units within the Division of Student & Community Engagement have been realigned. Recent vacancies, in addition to the evolution of divisional goals, have necessitated the opportunity to take advantage of existing synergies within units. The timing of the reorganization will allow for better alignment and more efficient use of key student success functions as we prepare for 2018-19 budget planning and to deliver on the outcomes of the 2018-2023 Strategic Plan.
The following changes will take effect October 2nd, 2017:
Meg Houghton will assume the role of Associate Dean, Student Wellness & Equity. Meg will maintain accountability for all Student Wellness & Accessibility programs (Health, Counselling, Accessible Learning Services and related activities), in addition to Testing Services. Meg will now also provide leadership to the areas of Student Conduct, Residence Life, Student Support & Intervention, and Student Diversity & Inclusion.
Chantal Joy will take on the role of Associate Dean, Transition & Academic Support. Chantal will maintain accountability for Integrated Advising activities, Career Services, Learning Support Services, and Employer and Placement support. Moving forward, the areas of Orientation, Transition, First Year Experience programs, Co-Curricular Record and Leadership Development will be joining the Transition & Academic Support unit.
Both of these positions will report to the Dean of Students, and will be part of the Department of Student Success and Engagement, in order to best achieve maximum alignment with departmental and institutional goals.
Please join me in wishing Meg and Chantal success in taking on these expanded responsibilities.
Sincerely,
Jason Hunter
VP, Student & Community Engagement
Humber College is excited to join Dropbike to bring an affordable, Canadian bike-share service to campus at Lakeshore and at North Campus. The service is available to all Humber students (18 years of age and older), staff and faculty including our neighbouring community. There are currently 50 bikes available at North and Lakeshore Campus!
What this means:
There will be an increase in the number of bikes and on campus cyclists throughout the day and evening. Please be more aware and respectful of their presence and be more alert when driving and riding.
We have safety instructions and more details about the program available here: humber.ca/facilities/parking-transportation/bike-share-program
Humber Galleries is launching a fresh new vision with our fall show. We are declaring our earnest affection for creative people who help us see to the world and ourselves differently.
Into You is a group exhibition presented across our two locations, Fall in Deep at North Space and On the Edge at L Space. Crushes can be confusing, exciting, and all-consuming—like being on the edge of a great void and surrendering to an intense feeling. The desire to be accepted by someone else can amplify self-conscious feelings of difference. And yet, as revolutionary poet Sonia Sanchez has written, ‘you can’t have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.’ Into You highlights artmaking as a meditative act of self-discovery. Like any great infatuation, the deeper one goes, the more there is to discover.
Featuring works by Omar Badrin, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Allyson Mitchell, Jagdeep Raina, and Xiaojing Yan, Into You dives deep into the compulsion to create variations of forms that are strangely attractive. They beg to be noticed. Through pastel drawings, crochet, sculpted paper, found textiles, video, and digital drawings on an iPhone, each artist tells a story about themselves, their communities, and how others see them. On the Edge at L Space explores visibility and invisibility at the margins. Who or what goes unnoticed, blends in, and stands out? Fall in Deep at the North Space houses cocoons and second skins. These are protective spaces for transformation, becoming, and turning inward in total surrender. Together, the exhibitions are about belonging on one’s own terms.
Into You: On the Edge
Omar Badrin, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Allyson Mitchell, Jagdeep Raina, and Xiaojing Yan
Curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland and Farah Yusuf
August 29 - November 24, 2017
L Space
Lakeshore Campus
Room L1002
19 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive
Toronto, ON M8V 4B6
Into You: Fall in Deep
Omar Badrin, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Allyson Mitchell, and Xiaojing Yan
Curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland and Farah Yusuf
August 29 - October 20, 2017
North Space
North Campus
LRC 1st Floor
205 Humber College Boulevard
Toronto, ON M9W 5L7
Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
*North Space open Wednesdays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
For additional information please contact alissa.firth-eagland@humber.ca, visit humbergalleries.ca, or find HumberGalleries on social media.
Image credit: Omar Badrin, Cry Baby, soft polyurethane tubing, nylon industrial fishing twine and mason line, 2015
Image courtesy of the artist
