Please register. Spaces are limited. Please visit hrs.humber.ca/learning.html

Is there a community project that your School or Department is interested in developing with a local community organization? Humber College Schools/Departments are invited to develop and submit proposals that can benefit local children, youth, Aboriginal Peoples and newcomers. If you have identified a need in the community, that your school or department has expertise in addressing, you can submit a proposal for funding through this initiative. Assistance is provided to develop your project concept and connect you with a relevant community agency (if you do not have one) to support you in the writing of your proposal.

The focus of your project concept should be to contribute, in some manner, to increased knowledge/training, exposure and/or access to postsecondary educational possibilities for the target groups listed above. These might include pathways into education, training and/or employment and/or building the organizational capacity of community agencies who share this same focus.

Humber student participation in projects is encouraged as this is an opportunity for them to build their co-curricular record. Their involvement would be an opportunity to deepen and apply theoretical knowledge. However it cannot be tied to grades for their academic program. Students could, for example, be involved as a mentor, volunteer or in a paid position.

Email lynn.vanlieshout@humber.ca to receive funding applications and guidelines.

Next week the CTL will be hosting a variety of learning and engagement opportunities. Please register at the links below: 

TT: Enabling the Digital SFQ in Blackboard 

Are you currently part of the Digital SFQ rollout? If so, enabling the SFQ tool in your Blackboard environment/course site is a critical step in encouraging your students to fill out the SFQ and increasing your student response rates. Enabling the tool is easy to do and combining tool availability with well-timed Blackboard announcements and reminders is an effective way of deploying the Digital SFQ. In addition to the scheduled workshop times below, faculty can drop in anytime during Studio hours to receive one-on-one support when it comes to enabling the Blackboard SFQ tool and any other Blackboard related support queries.

Visit the full CTL Calendar for a complete listing of Fall 2018 workshops.

The Humber Research Ethics Board (HREB) reviews all research involving human participants that takes place within the Humber community. The HREB’s responsibility is to ensure that all research involving human participants aligns with the standards set by the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS): Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans.

In an April 2018 Humber Communiqué announcement, the HREB placed a call for expressions of interest for new board members and received an overwhelming response. To ensure the HREB equitably represented the Humber community, new members have been selected based on their expertise in a variety of areas.

We are pleased to announce the following new board members:

Dr. Mojgan Rezvani, Faculty – School of Health Sciences
Dr. Jennifer Bazar, Curator, Office of the Principal
Mr. Audel Cunningham, Faculty – The Business School
Dr. Jeffrey Semple, Faculty – School of Health Sciences
Ms. Rita Kohli, External Community Member

New REB Chair appointment:

On behalf of President Chris Whitaker, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Lydia Boyko as the Chair of the Humber REB.

Lydia Boyko is a faculty member in Humber’s School of Media Studies & Information Technology and serves on the Executive Committee of Humber College Council. Dr. Boyko joined Humber full time in 2011 after more than 20 years of business experience in the private sector, with a focus on government and investor relations in the financial services sector, and several years as a partial-load business professor at the postsecondary level. Lydia has been an HREB member since 2014.

Lydia will bring leadership, expertise, and guidance to the HREB when she assumes the role of HREB Chair, effective September 29, 2018. Please join us in congratulating Lydia on her appointment.

To learn more about the Humber Research Ethics Board, including all members of the committee, please visit our website.

Gina Antonacci
Associate Vice-President, Academic