Humber North's LRC Bus Loop Entrance (North East side of LRC) will be closed temporarily (2 to 3 hours) for window repairs after 6:00 p.m. on September 27, 2017.
We ask that the LRC main entrance is used during this time.
Thank you,
Humber Facilities Team
There is still time to enroll in the diverse lineup of the School of HRT's Continuing Education courses. Explore an interest, gain a professional leg up or sign up for corporate training with your team.
Available courses include:
To register, please visit hrt.humber.ca/explore/part-time.html
In an age of reconciliation, it’s important to understand how representation shapes points of view and actions so that we can avoid the problems caused by cultural appropriation. In this lecture, Jesse Wente will show how the history of Indigenous representation in popular culture, such as cinema and sports mascots, has been largely skewed by political/colonial ideology that continues to harm Indigenous people today. Mr. Wente will also discuss the recent Truth and Reconciliation Commission and explore how individuals can respond to its calls to action.
The full list of speakers for Fall 2017 can be found at the President's Lecture Series webpage: liberalarts.humber.ca/about/conferences-lectures/president-lecture-series.html
All are welcome!
The Degree Breadth Committee is soliciting your proposals for new Breadth courses for Humber Degree students.
The Committee has a renewed website that clarifies the process of proposing Breadth courses at Humber with a step-by-step guide, a searchable inventory of approved Breadth courses, a short proposal form, and a variety of resources for developers.
Proposal forms will be reviewed by the Committee in mid-October. To be considered at this meeting, the form must have the support of your department (as indicated by the signature of your Associate Dean/Dean), and be submitted to the degree.breadth@humber.ca email address by October 11th 2017.
We look forward to seeing your ideas.
Dawn Macaulay
Chair, Degree Breadth Committee
Our flags will be lowered on Sunday, September 24th in honour of Police and Peace Officers' National Memorial Day.
For more information, go to thememorial.ca/memorial/index/introduction
Research study notice: Seeking South Asian (i.e., Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) participants to explore a possible route to better understanding how we recognize and learn faces from one's own ethnicity background and other ethnicity backgrounds (known as the other-race effect). For around one hour of your time, you will earn a $20 gift card!
The study involves matching photographs of different people together by viewing multiple photographs of a faces. This involves trying to find a different photograph of the correct person in a selection of 30 different people. With important applied implications for verification of identity, this is a fun learning experience with compensation for participants.
More details about the study will be emailed to interested students who self-identify as South Asian (i.e., Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) - these details are provided in an information letter. Each interested student is advised to read over the letter before proceeding to view a linked schedule, which shows when the study is being run. Please note that this study is taking place at the University of Guelph-Humber on Humber College's North Campus.
If you wish to find out more information about the study - with no obligation to participate if you do not wish after reading the information letter - then please contact Ms. Rachel Simec or Ms. Ankita Arora at OREProjectUGH@gmail.com.
If you have any questions or concerns about the study, please contact Dr. Adam Sandford who is leading this research project: adam.sandford@guelphhumber.ca, 416.798.1331 x6088.
Humber College will be replacing the existing Purchase Card (P-card) business process, effective November 2017. This change is necessary as Bank of Montreal’s (BMO) Online Purchase Card reporting and approval system will cease to exist by the end of the calendar year.
Humber will implement Ellucian Travel & Expense Management powered by Chrome River which will assist with both the P-card and Expense reimbursement/claim processes.
Some Chrome River Features:
Why now?
The current BMO Details Online P-card system availability ends on December 31, 2017. Implementing a comprehensive Travel and Expense solution was always part of Financial Services and Planning’s long-term service enhancement plan but with the current P-card system reaching end-of-life, we are taking this opportunity to implement a robust solution that will meet Humber’s P-card and Travel and Expense needs.
When will Chrome River be deployed?
Financial Services and Planning as well as Information Technology staff are working with Chrome River on the deployment plan and will roll-out the functionality over 2 phases:
| Component | Go Live Date | |
| Phase 1 | P-card Functionality | November 2017 (Revised Date) |
| Phase 2 | T&E Functionality | To be confirmed |
How will I be informed?
For Phase 1 deployment, targeted communications will be sent out in the coming weeks to existing P-card holders along with their Budget Managers’ regarding User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and training.
For Phase 2, we will be providing timely communications throughout the implementation process.
If anyone has any questions and/or suggestions, please contact:
| Kelly Morrow Associate Director, Financial Services Kelly.Morrow@humber.ca 416.675.6622 x5093 |
Paula Borges Manager, Financial Systems, Technology & Training Paula.Borges@humber.ca 416.675.6622 x4408 |
Humber has launched an open source and accessible online course designed to teach broadcast content creators how to make their media inclusive and accessible.
The six-module course, Making Accessible Media: Accessible Design in Broadcast Media, covers topics including universal and inclusive design, live and closed captioning, transcription, described video, alternative text, how to make documents and presentations accessible, and considers the representation of disability in broadcast media.
It is available for free at humber.ca/makingaccessiblemedia, and will also be offered to all students and faculty in the School of Media Studies and Information Technology (SMSIT).
Working with a $130,900 grant from the Broadcasting Accessibility Fund, a team of SMSIT professors and developers, collaborating with internal and external advisors, designed the online course, which incorporates features such as a built-in screen reader, text magnifier, captioned video, downloadable transcripts and ASL translations for original videos. The accessibility tools used in this course are now being incorporated into upcoming online courses at Humber as well.
For more information and to take the course, go to humber.ca/makingaccessiblemedia.
Humber Liberal Studies @ IFOA 2017 Keynote Speaker
October 28, 2017, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Fleck Dance Theatre, Harbourfront
Professor Susan N. Herman President, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Topic: A Republic, If You Can Keep It.
The current turn to authoritarianism in the US and other countries threatens democracy through suppression of dissent, wholesale surveillance, and attempts to sow division by demonizing groups of people on the basis of their race, ethnicity, or religious or political beliefs. This keynote addresses these issues and offers some direction about what we can do about it. For tickets to this event, register here: REGISTRATION
Registration is also open for the full academic conference, or for a single day. humber.ca/liberalarts-ifoa/registration
Contract Cheating: “form of academic dishonesty where students get academic work completed on their behalf, which they then submit for academic credit [and/or advantage] as if they had created it themselves” (“About Contract Cheating”, nd)
WHEN?
October 18, 2017
WHO?
Students, Faculty, Staff, Administrators, all those who value learning!
HOW?
Participate in the Whiteboard Declaration!
On a whiteboard write a personal declaration about why contract cheating is wrong—add the
hashtags #humbercollege #excelwithintegrity - then tweet or post to Facebook
WHY?
Contract Cheating erodes learning, is dishonest, and unethical.
JOIN US!
contractcheating.weebly.com
Twitter: @humbercollege
Facebook: facebook.com/humbercollege
International Centre for Academic Integrity (ICAI)
