Announcements

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

When:
February 28, 2018
Contact:
Cynthia Luey
Tel:
x4975

Show your Humber team spirit by raising money for scholarships and awards. Help deserving students like Rewa. Gather your department, team, friends or classes, then plan a fundraising event in support of Humber Gives. Promote your fundraiser quickly and easily using our event poster template.  

Visit the Humber Gives webpage for more information on the campaign and how you can get involved.

When:
February 28, 2018
Contact:
Kara Seguin
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Textbooks for Change is excited to announce our first annual Bookstruction event at the Lakeshore Campus! Team registration is now open. 

What is Bookstruction?

Teams of 4-6 people associated with Humber College will build a structure from textbooks that they have fundraised from the community. Teams will collect donations of textbooks from their community and design and build a structure from these textbooks. These textbooks will then be collected by Textbooks for Change so we can continue to work on our goal of improving the educational landscape around the world!

The Bookstruction competition is open to students, staff and faculty of Humber College.

  • Register is open between February 26 and March 9
  • Teams will have between March 10 and 21 to submit number of textbooks raised
  • Photos and structures must be uploaded to Facebook by March 21 at 9 a.m. 
  • Voting will happen from March 21 from 10 a.m. to March 25 at 12 p.m.
  • Winners announced at a film screening on Monday, March 26

To find out about registering a team, please email our lead ambassador Kara at karaseguin3@gmail.com.

When:
February 28, 2018
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

Please be informed that as part of Humber backfill projects, the corridor outside room C105 and C109 will be closed during the construction period from March 5, 2018 to August 31, 2018.

Should there be any questions or concerns, please contact Khon Ta at x4143 or Rebecca Muyal at x5570.

When:
February 28, 2018
Contact:
Vivi Tsoukalas
Tel:
x74122

Do you ever struggle helping your children with their homework? Do you feel nervous when faced with math problems? This three hour hands-on Math for Moms and Dads (How to Tutor Your Children) workshop is designed to help parents become better tutors to children of all ages.

Participants will be introduced to ways to better support their children in the learning process, achieve success in completing homework, and understand ways to help their children be more successful in their learning outside the classroom. Parents will also learn how to set goals, recognize challenges and be introduced to a variety of strategies to use when tutoring their children.

In this workshop, parents will work with specific math problems applicable to the Ontario math curriculum. Although this workshop focuses on Math, the tutoring skills can be applied to all subject areas and grades. Parents will also be provided with resources to use at home.

Workshops begin in March and will be held in Toronto and Hamilton. The cost of the workshop is $50.00

For dates and times, please go to humber.ca/courses.html?code=EDUC_010

When:
February 28, 2018
Contact:
Heidi Marsh
Tel:
x5836
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster

The CTL is excited to announce a call for applications for the next Scholarly Writing Boot Camp, taking place on May 2-4, 2018 at The Millcroft Inn & Spa. The Boot Camp is a chance to make a commitment to get a piece of scholarly writing done, by dedicating a consolidated period of time to writing in a quiet group retreat context.

Food and accommodations will be provided for the duration of the retreat. 

Spaces are limited! See the attached pdf file for more information and for the application. Applications may be submitted to the Centre for Teaching & Learning (D225, North), or emailed to heidi.marsh@humber.ca.

The deadline for applications is Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 5 p.m. If you have any questions, please contact Heidi Marsh by email or phone (x5836).

When:
February 28, 2018
Contact:
Jamie Even, Internship Coordinator

Are you still interested in a Student Personal Trainer this semester? 

It’s not too late to sign-up; we are currently accepting registration for our wait list in the event an opening becomes available!

To register online, click here

Please ensure you are using Firefox as your web browser when registering to avoid technical issues. Upon completing the registration form online, you should receive a confirmation email. Please be sure to check your Email Junk Folder as this confirmation email may be recognized as Spam. 

Thank you for your interest and supporting this program.

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