Announcements

When:
March 5, 2018

For many of our students, receiving a scholarship can mean the difference between graduating from a program and withdrawing from school.

We are asking you to lend a hand and help Humber students who need that extra financial support to make it through their studies. It’s easy to make a difference to hardworking and determined students like Osa by making a donation through payroll deduction.

The Humber Gives campaign runs until the end of March, however this is the final week to take advantage of an exciting matching opportunity. Until March 9th, TD Insurance Meloche Monnex will match new gifts supporting Humber student awards and scholarships, doubling the impact of your donation.

Should you have any questions on how to give, please contact Cynthia Luey, Annual Giving Officer, x4975 or cynthia.luey@humber.ca.

When:
March 5, 2018
Contact:
Adam Sandford
Tel:
416.798.1331 x6088
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Dear colleagues,

Please see the research study notice below for information pertaining to a research study being conducted throughout the remainder of the winter semester at the University of Guelph-Humber. We would greatly appreciate your assistance in providing this information to interested students and members of faculty/staff of Humber College.

Research study notice: Seeking South Asian (i.e., Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) participants native to Canada or enrolled as an international student 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 and members of faculty/staff who self-identify as South Asian (i.e., Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) - these details are provided in an information letter, which will be attached to the email. Each interested student/staff/faculty 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.

 

When:
March 5, 2018

Welcome to the Centre for Teaching and Learning and Humber Libraries’ celebration of Open Education Week (March 5-9).

What is Open Education?

In the spirit of open, the definition below is a remix of the definition authored by the Open Education Consortium (2018, CC BY 4.0):

Open Education seeks to scale up educational opportunities by taking advantage of the power of the internet, allowing rapid and essentially free dissemination, and enabling people around the world to access knowledge, connect and collaborate.

Open allows not just access, but the freedom to modify and use materials, information and networks so education can be personalized to individual users or woven together in new ways for diverse audiences, large and small.

This sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas and understanding can be built. 

People can connect with others they wouldn’t otherwise meet to share ideas and information. Materials can be translated, mixed together, broken apart and openly shared again, increasing access and inviting fresh approaches.

Anyone can access educational materials, scholarly articles, and supportive learning communities anytime they want to. Education is available, accessible, modifiable and free.

Want to learn more? Go to openeducationweek.org/page/what-is-open-education

In practice, Open Education involves creating and sharing educational content under an open license such as the Creative Commons license. Stay tuned to learn more about Creative Commons in tomorrow’s post.

When:
March 2, 2018
Contact:
Kellie Elliot
Tel:
x5274
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

All levels welcome!

There are no changerooms in the studio, so please come to class in your comfortable yoga clothes. There are mats available. This is an open class for anyone who wants to come. Registration is not necessary. Come out for an hour and move your body, stretch, breathe and let it all go!

Tuesdays 2 p.m - 3 p.m.
Thursdays 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Location North Campus, A100

Questions? Contact kellie.elliot@humber.ca.

Please feel free to download and distribute the flyer attached.

When:
March 2, 2018
Contact:
Wayne Debly
Tel:
905.833.8349
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Travel Abroad with Humber Retirees & Friends
June 10-18, 2018

We have a few spots left on our trip to MADEIRA & PORTO SANTO – two picturesque Portuguese islands recently featured in the Globe & Mail. You will enjoy a memorable week with a comprehensive well planned program in this lush “Garden in the Atlantic.”

For a detailed e-brochure with prices and inclusions, please click on: Humber Retirees – Madeira.

When:
March 2, 2018
Contact:
Pat Van Horne

Humber wants every student to succeed.

To further this goal, we created the Humber Student Success Survey (HSSS). The HSSS asks students about their academic and career goals, adjustment to academic life, potential barriers to success, and socio-demographics. Responses are kept confidential but are used in aggregate form for administrative, statistical, and research purposes that help the college understand and support the Humber student experience.

On March 5th, full-time students will receive an email invitation to participate in the 10-minute online survey. This year, we will survey all students in semesters 1 through 4 to compensate for our inability to administer the survey during the fall labour disruption. The survey will close on Monday, March 19th.

If you have any questions, you can contact Pat Van Horne, Manager of Institutional Research at patricia.vanhorne@humber.ca or 416.675.6622 x4943.

Thank you.

Corrine Johnston
Director, Strategic Planning and Institutional Analysis

When:
March 1, 2018
Contact:
Heidi Marsh
Tel:
x5836
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

The Centre for Teaching and Learning is pleased to share the third edition of Scholars & Co.: The CTL SoTL Newsletter. In here, you'll find a quick snapshot of the research and scholarship opportunities within the CTL for the month of March, as well as a list of active faculty projects with the Teaching Innovation Fund

For more information about anything in the newsletter, please contact Heidi Marsh (x5836), heidi.marsh@humber.ca.

When:
March 1, 2018
Contact:
Maureen Martin-Edey
Tel:
x4509
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

The Management Essentials (Active Leadership) Program introduces the fundamentals of effective leadership for great success in a manageable timeframe of three days. The content provides concepts and practices of Leadership in a high-impact learning environment assisting leaders to effectively coach, empower and lead individuals and teams to higher levels of performance.

Who Should Attend?

  • New and existing managers, associate deans and associate directors with direct reports.

Pre-requisite

  • The pre-requisite to the Management Essentials (Active Leadership) Program, is the Everything DiSC Program. 

Dates

  • Everything DiSC - May 10, 2018, Room F229, North Campus
  • Active Leadership Program – May 15 and 16, 2018, Room E303, North Campus

Please indicate your interest as soon as possible as this program fills quickly and there is pre-work to complete.

All sessions are from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

You will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the program. Lunch is included.

Registration

If you have any questions or wish to register for this program, please contact Maureen Martin-Edey at maureen.martin-edey@humber.ca
Please review attached flyer for further details. Thank you.

When:
February 28, 2018

Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivered the 2018 federal budget on February 27, 2018.
The full budget is available at: http://budget.gc.ca/2018/docs/plan/toc-tdm-en.html

Budget highlights of specific interest to the college sector:

  • $140 million over five years for the College and Community Innovation Program. This program currently supports applied research projects at Humber.
  • Apprenticeship Incentive Grant for Women: Almost $20 million over five years for this new grant aimed at women in male-dominated Red Seal trades. Apprentices would receive $3,000 for each of their first two years of training (up to $6,000). This, in combination with the existing Apprenticeship Completion Grant valued at $2,000, will result in a combined $8,000 in support over the course of their training for a female apprentice training to become a welder, machinist pipe fitter or any other skilled trade that is male-dominated. Nearly 90 per cent of Red Seal trades would be eligible for the Grant.
  • New Pre-Apprenticeship Program: This program will encourage underrepresented groups—including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, newcomers and persons with disabilities–to explore careers in the skilled trades. The government will provide $46 million over five years for the program.
  • Women in Construction Fund: An investment of $10 million over three years from Employment and Social Development Canada’s existing resources will support this new program. It will build on existing models that have proven to be effective in attracting women to the trades. These models provide supports such as mentoring, coaching and tailored supports that help women to progress through their training and find and retain jobs in the trades.
  • Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Program: $447-million for a new program to help close the employment and pay gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people by focusing on training for higher-quality, better-paying jobs. It will replace the Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Program.
  • Horizontal Skills Review: From basic literacy and numeracy support to specific skilled trades training to financial supports and work experiences offered to students, the government provides a wide range of skills programming to meet a variety of needs. To maximize the effectiveness of these programs, particularly in the way that they offer support to workers wishing to take advantage of emerging opportunities, the government will undertake a horizontal review of skills programming over the next year. This, in conjunction with the Future Skills organization (confirmed to launch this spring), will provide Canada’s labour force with the information and training needed to meet future challenges and opportunities head on.
  • Up to $5.5 million over five years for Status of Women Canada to work with stakeholders, including provinces and territories, towards developing a harmonized national framework to ensure consistent, comprehensive and sustainable approaches in addressing gender-based violence at post-secondary institutions across the country. Starting in 2019, for those universities and college campuses that are not implementing best practices addressing sexual assaults on campus, the Government of Canada will consider withdrawing federal funding.
  • $920 million over six years to renew the funding for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. As part of the broader review of innovation programs, over the next year, the Government will explore ways to simplify the existing suite of 22 programs offered by the regional development agencies. It is proposed that the agencies will place greater emphasis in helping firms scale up, develop new markets and expand, as well as assist with the adoption of new technologies and processes. The agencies could also become the main platform to support regional innovation ecosystems.
  • Reduction to the number of business innovation funding programs but an increase in overall funding, including $700-million in new funding for the Industrial Research Assistance Program over the next five years. Also, increased funding for female entrepreneurs and $572.5-million to give researchers "open and equitable access" to advanced computing and big data resources.
When:
February 28, 2018

The Division of Student and Community Engagement (SCE) has launched a new website! The website is intended to share with our internal and external communities how SCE departments, programs and services support access, academic and personal success for our diverse community of learners, as guided by Humber’s Strategic and Academic Plans. The website highlights our:

  • Divisional Strategic Framework
  • SCE Leadership Team and Organizational Chart
  • SCE Departments and Functional Areas
  • Assessment of Services and Student Experiences

You can view the website at humber.ca/sce

If you have feedback or questions you’d like to share with us, please click here.

Jason Hunter
Vice President, Student and Community Engagement

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