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Canada Savings Bonds - Payroll Savings Program - A reminder that the campaign period ends on November 1.
The CSB Payroll Savings Program is available to full time employees only.
If you have any questions, please contact Valerie Bardy, Manager, Payroll at 416.675.6622 x4223.
Date: October 27, 2016
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Small Arms Building, 1352 Lakeshore Road
Join us for In Situ, a three-day multi-arts festival, October 27, 28 and 29, 2016 in the Small Arms Building, an abandoned WWII munitions inspection building at 1352 Lakeshore Road in Mississauga.
The Small Arms Society invites you to this event in celebration of the upcoming restoration of this large-scale urban industrial heritage building into a future creative hub. In Situ, an immersive and interactive event will animate the space and spark your imagination with music, photography, performance, dance, improv, mime, spoken word, mural and graffiti art, installation art, design and more by some of the GTA’s best emerging artists!
Working within the parameters of an experimental course - Special Topics in Contemporary Art – second year students in the Visual and Digital Arts Program at Humber College will be engaging in an extended research project on the Small Arms Facility. Assembled in collaborative teams engaging diverse research methods, student-artists will conceptualize, prepare, and execute a series of installation artworks that critically examine the history of the site. Student groups will be advised by contemporary artist Sharlene Bamboat, whose diverse practice in site-specific work will help inform creative strategies for student-lead artworks.
For more information or to buy tickets for the In Situ festival, see: smallarmsbuilding.ca.
For all other inquiries, contact Cole Swanson, Professor/Program Coordinator, Art Foundation at cole.swanson@humber.ca.
Humber Libraries’ 2015-2016 Annual Review is now available. This year's report features library news and initiatives, collections and resources highlights, as well as staff changes.
Visit library.humber.ca/overview-policies and click on "Annual Reports and Survey Results" to access this year's annual review, as well as other reports from Humber Libraries.
Just a friendly reminder:
In order to measure and track our guest engagement and satisfaction of service, we conduct a standard Chartwells’ Engagement Survey. The feedback and opinions will be vital to help address opportunities, improve the food services, and the overall campus experience for the Humber College community.
This is a 3-minute digital survey that is hosted on our dineoncampus.ca/humber website and social media channels from October 11th to November 4th. We have also provided the direct link below. We encourage you to take a few minutes to complete the survey and enter for a chance to win one of two $50 Dine on Campus gift cards!
Calling all members of the #HumberGlobal community!
The International Centre is looking for your photos to display in an exciting new online gallery on the Humber International website in a special exhibit as part of International Education Week (IEW) from November 14-18.
What are we looking for?
Send us photos that creatively show the global perspective you’ve gained through travel, study, and/or work in Canada or abroad and the value of global citizenship. Your photos should address one of the five themes:
Photo submissions must be at least 300 DPI. Photos must be 100% original content belonging to the person submitting the photo. Please also include a 50-100 word description of how the photo fits one of the five themes.
What’s the deadline?
Friday, November 4, 2016
How do I submit my photo(s)?
Thank you for helping to showcase Humber’s global identity to the world! We look forward to receiving your photos and stories!
Welcome to a new and improved humber.ca! I am pleased to announce that thanks to massive efforts by the academic schools, the registrar’s office, recruitment, program planning, development and renewal, marketing, and led by our agency partner Black Cat, a major web update was recently launched introducing a host of new features and functions that will improve the experience of students visiting our web site. The changes to the site put us in an even better position to show prospective students why they should choose Humber.
The timing of the launch coincided with the start of a new recruitment season when our ambassadors are out promoting Humber – both domestically and internationally.
There are too many improvements to itemize but following are a few:
Development of humber.ca is an ongoing endeavour so expect more great changes to come.
Regards,
Alister Mathieson
Vice-President of Advancement & External Affairs
Anne Zbitnew, Mike Karapita and Hillary Rexe and the course design team to create “Accessible Design in Broadcast Media” – online course to launch September 2017
The School of Media Studies and Information Technology (SMSIT) at Humber College ITAL has been granted $130,900.00 from The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund to develop a course called “Accessible Design in Broadcast Media” which will launch September 2017.
The first of its kind in the world, the Broadcast Accessibility Fund (BAF) is an independent and impartial funding body that provides grants for innovative projects that will advance accessibility to broadcasting content in Canada. It has allocated funds for Anne Zbitnew, Mike Karapita and Hillary Rexe and the course design team to create “Accessible Design in Broadcast Media,” a fully inclusive online course available in both English and French.
The course will be available in the fall, 2017 for all SMSIT students. The team will also create an open source version of the course for all Canadians, including broadcast media professionals, organizations seeking accessibility training, and post-secondary institutions across the country.
This course will raise awareness of the systemic, attitudinal, physical, information and technological barriers that interrupt accessibility in current broadcast media practices. It will include content about representing and raising awareness of disability in Canada within broadcast media itself. The course will teach our students how to incorporate accessibility features such as image description and described video, alt-text, transcription and captions into broadcast media content with the understanding that accessibility should not be an afterthought but part of the initial development process. They will be educated and trained to include accessibility in every aspect of what they learn and be ready for employment with necessary skills to start work without retraining.
The team behind this application seeks to nurture a culture of learning within Humber where students become change agents in understanding and promoting the value of fully accessible broadcast content. We seek to integrate a profound understanding of the need to create accessible content so that our graduates can flourish in subsequent further study and in the global job markets of today and tomorrow.
Date: November 2, 2016
The event is an opportunity for Humber staff with a child in grade 9 to spend a day in the workplace. It is an opportunity for students to develop an appreciation of their parents’ career roles, to understand the skills necessary to work in a variety of occupations and to consider the wide range of careers possible as they visit worksites. In addition we hope to provide a full scope of post-secondary and career options available to them. The day will consist of tours and career focused activities. Space is limited.
Please register by emailing noreen.gomes@humber.ca by Wednesday, October 26, 2016.
Culture is NOT a costume.
At Humber, we DO NOT mimic racial groups.
It's a matter of respect.