Dante's Infinite Monkeys: Technology Meets the 7 Deadly Sins written by Business School Professor Mike Dover is now available at Amazon.com.
Announcements
When:
May 15, 2017
Contact:
Joanne Singh
Tel:
x4063
Email:
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Please be advised that Financial Services and Planning will be conducting its annual fixed asset inventory verification from May to August 2017 across all Humber and Guelph Humber facilities, including off site locations.
Visits will take place during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) and will be scheduled to minimize disruptions to classroom instruction.
Should you have any concerns, please contact Joanne Singh, Manager Financial Services & Reporting.
We thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Financial Services and Planning
You can count on us!
humber.ca/finance
This is an opportunity to enhance faculty's understanding of human rights legislation and the instructor's role in ensuring an accessible academic environment. There will be discussion and assessment of various strategies that can be used in the classroom and in developing appropriate parameters for test and assignment policies. Balancing academic policies and expectations with the resolution of student accommodations concerns will be addressed throughout this workshop.
- Register for Mon., May 29, 2017, North: D225I (CTL Boardroom), 8:55 to 11:35 a.m.
- Register for Tues., May 30, 2017, North: D225I (CTL Boardroom), 8:55 to 11:35 a.m.
- Register for Wed., June 7, 2017, Lake: F103, 9:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Register for Thurs, June 15, 2017, Lake: F103, 9:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
When:
May 12, 2017
Contact:
John Schroder
Tel:
416.678.1358
Email:
[field_department_school]
Apologies for this short notice, but we've just made arrangements with a concrete contractor to address emergency repairs around a manhole at the North Campus bus loop.
The exact location is the southernmost portion of loop affecting bays 2, 3 and 4 (all TTC).
We need to close the area from 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 16 to noon on Wednesday, May 17 in order to complete the repairs and give the concrete sufficient dry time before it can be used.
Temporary Routes are as follows:
- Route 96 both ways will use the temporary stop on Humber College at Silver Bell.
- Route 191 both ways will service temporary stops on Humber College at Silver Bell
- Route 186 will enter the loop via west on Humber College, south on Arboretum Lane and then exit via Sliver Bell and service the stop used by the 96 service at bay 5.
- Route 336 will service temporary stop at Humber College and Silver Bell both ways..
- Brampton Transit (11 and 11/A Steeles) and Zum (511 and 511A) along with the TTC #96 Wilson and 336 Finch West will alter their entry into the bus loop during this closure period.
- MiWay 107 temporarily pick-up and drop off on the north side of the Silver Bell Lane just at the stop sign after entering onto the property.
We thank you for your patience and understanding!
Humber Facilities
When:
May 12, 2017
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Scent-Related Issues in the Humber Workplace
Increasing Awareness on Scent-sitivities
Fragrances are found in a wide range of products, including perfume, cologne, deodorant, soap, shampoo, hairspray, air fresheners, and cleaning agents. Although it is a personal choice to use fragrances, fragrance chemicals are by their very nature shared. Exposure to fragrance chemicals in scented products can trigger health reactions in susceptible individuals such as those with conditions such as asthma, allergies, migraines, or chemical sensitivities.
What Can You Do To Help?
It is important to understand that some of the people in the College workplace may have a sensitivity to scented products. If you use scented products, use them sparingly or consider using unscented alternatives. A general guideline is that the scent should not be detectable more than an arm’s length away from the user. Be considerate and respectful when a scent issue or concern is raised.
If You React to Fragrance Chemicals...
If you experience health effects or discomfort from exposure to scented products used by a particular individual, you may wish to approach that person directly. Let them know in a cordial and respectful manner that you react to fragrances and ask for their cooperation in avoiding or minimizing the use of the fragrance. If you are uncomfortable about approaching the individual, discuss the issue with your manager.
If You Are Approached About the Scented Product You Wear...
If an employee, student or supervisor informs you that the scented product that you use is a problem and asks that you reduce its use, or not use it at all, you may initially feel hurt, puzzled or annoyed. Understand that it is not about you as a person or about your choice of fragrance but it is about the effect the fragrance chemicals are having on others. Discuss the issue in an open and respectful manner, and work with cooperation and understanding towards a satisfactory resolution.
Further details on Humber’s guidelines for scent in the workplace can be found by clicking here.
As promised, today’s announcement offers the opportunity to win some great prizes. Click on the link below, answer a few questions about the NAOSH Week topics which were published in the Communique this week, and enter your name for a chance to win. We will be accepting entries until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 19, 2017.
CLICK HERE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN
HR Services | Health and Safety Services
NAOSH Week is led by the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE).
More information about NAOSH Week can be found at naosh.ca or csse.org.
When:
May 12, 2017
Contact:
Leanne Henwood-Adam
Tel:
x4186
Email:
[field_department_school]
Looking for motivation to work out? Attempting to reach a personal fitness/wellness goal? Ever want to try some cardio/weight machines but not know where to begin? We have Nationally Certified Personal Trainers working within the Fitness Centre who can help you year round- including the summer months. Check out our webpage for more information and to see the amazing prices available to you.
humber.ca/student-life/swac/fitness/personal-training/packages
Personal Training not your thing? Why not try one of our fitness classes? All classes are FREE to students and staff!
humber.ca/student-life/swac/fitness/group-fitness
Fitness services are available at both the North Campus and the Lakeshore Campus.
For mor information please contact the Fitness Coordinator for your campus:
- North Campus: Leanne Henwood-Adam, leanne.henwoodadam@humber.ca or x4186
- Lakeshore Campus: Nathania Bron, nathania.bron@humber.ca or x3553
When:
May 11, 2017
Contact:
Jennifer Cleary
Tel:
x5106
Email:
Posters/Attachments: Event Poster
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Humber College is pleased to announce it has been selected to support the national Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system in Ethiopia. The initiative, led by Asha Gervan, Manager of the International Development Institute and delivered by faculty from The Business School, including Jim Skinner, will equip 50 entrepreneurship instructors in Ethiopia with the tools and skills to design and deliver effective curriculum in entrepreneurship. As Master Trainers, the Ethiopian faculty will also be qualified to provide leadership in this sector to other instructors in the region.
For this project, Humber is working in partnership with Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT), a leading international social enterprise that operates youth-led economic, education and leadership programs all over the world. The funding is part of a larger Global Affairs Canada (GAC) project to help 200,000 young women and men build entrepreneurial and job skills and use technology to increase their incomes and employment opportunities.
Jim Skinner recently returned from Ethiopia where he was conducting a needs assessment of their entrepreneurial TVET program and working to better understand the capacity of the local instructors. "It’s wonderful working in a place like Ethiopia where the teaching environment is so different from our own,” said Skinner. “We share with Ethiopian faculty an identical task: to get knowledge, skills and attitudes into the heads of our students."
This consultancy is among the several projects run by Humber’s International Development Institute (IDI) that provide unique professional development opportunities for faculty and staff. Humber’s international development projects contribute to efforts to internationalize the campus, while at the same time making an important contribution to sustainable development globally. “Projects like these are great for Humber, and for our partners," says Gervan. “Not only do we benefit from the opportunity to assist international educational institutions, we also end up learning a lot about how teaching and training methodologies are different around the world. This can have a great impact on our teaching at home.”
For more information on this new initiative, please go to idi.humber.ca/what-we-do/projects/africa/ethiopia.html
Description
The Humber Award for Excellence in Teaching is an annual award recognizing one Humber educator for Teaching Excellence and for nurturing the broader institutional learning environment. Demonstrating outstanding teaching and learning experiences, a nominee should be an individual who is widely recognized for their teaching and academic inquiry within the Faculty, supports the educational excellence of colleagues, and embodies a spirit of instructional innovation.
Eligibility
All current Humber academic faculty (all categories of teaching staff, including part-time and continuing education) are eligible for this award.
Rules and Guidelines
- Nomination for these awards can be made by a student, alumni, faculty colleague, or administrator.
- Each Nominee must display excellence in all 4 categories of the ‘Teaching Excellence Framework’ listed in Appendix A.
- The nomination MUST include at least 1 support letter from students (an individual or a group letter).
- The nominator is responsible for submitting a complete nomination package to the Dean of the School by May 24th, 2017
Nomination Package
The nomination package consists of four parts:
- Part 1: Nominee and Nominator Information
- Part 2: Nominator Letter
- Part 3: Three Letters of Support
- Part 4: Evidence of excellence in the four criteria (Appendix A)
Selection Process
All nominations are reviewed by members of the Teaching Excellence Award Committee and evaluated based on the support provided for each of the Teaching Excellence Categories (i.e., evidence provided in support of each category). Awards Committee (AC) is comprised of Academic Deans, faculty (past winners) and a designate from the Centre for Teaching and Learning. An award may be given each year.
Recognition
The Humber Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient will be honored at Convocation. Award recipients will receive up to $2000 to be used towards attending a conference of their choice. All receipts will have their name engraved on the awards plaque, and will be provided with a letter from Humber acknowledging the honour.
Nominees not selected as an Award Recipient will be recognized for their nomination, publically congratulating them and thanking them for their contribution to Humber.
Completed nomination packages should be sent to the Dean of the school.
Appendix A: Teaching Excellence Categories
The adjudication criteria for The Humber Award for Excellence in Teaching are based upon a comprehensive, robust view of teaching in all teaching formats and modalities.
Nominations for the award are to be based on a nominee’s demonstrated excellence in all four of the Teaching Excellence Framework categories listed below.
| Teaching Excellence Framework Categories | Description |
|---|---|
| A. Excellence in Teaching Practice | Demonstrates a superior command of: i. enacting pedagogical knowledge within their disciplinary area, ii. creating a learning environment which fosters and nurtures learners thinking and understanding, iii. using a wide an appropriate range of teaching and learning methods effectively, iv. using a wide and appropriate range of assessment techniques to support student learning and demonstrate learning outcomes, v. providing students with timely, helpful assessment and feedback to support and strengthen learning, vi. demonstrating a commitment to equity and guarantee an equal and inclusive learning environment, vii. integrating scholarly activity into instruction. |
| B. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research |
Uses innovative, inquiry and/or experimental teaching as a form of research and/or scholarship that connects across disciplines and platforms. Exemplifies good teaching which promotes student learning and desired outcomes, is peer-reviewed and recognized by students and student satisfaction measures. Faculty makes this scholarship of teaching a peer-reviewed, publically available and rewarding experience. |
| C. Implementing Innovations in Teaching and Learning | Promotes student-centered and inquiry-based learning and critical thinking. Uses new instructional strategies for student engagement and/or initiatives involving the incorporations of digital technologies to enhance and/or extend student learning. |
| D. Stewardship and Professional Development — Building a Learning Community | Demonstrates educational leadership which encourages others to act collectively in the best interest of students. This might include: i. leading projects designed to enrich the student learning experience, ii. coaching colleagues on the innovative use of media and new technologies, iii. providing workshops on developing and enriching a instructional practices, iv. actively participate in teaching and learning research and the dissemination of findings. |
When:
May 11, 2017
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If trucking were a sport, the OTA Road Knights team would be perennial champions. Meet the magnificent seven truck drivers who will travel the province over the next two years, promoting the industry to the media as well as sharing their experiences and knowledge of the trucking industry and highway safety with students and community groups:
Click the video screen below to see Sylvain Binette (Kriska); Louis Carette (Kriska Transport); Gary deVos (Bison Transport); John Giunta (Polaris Transport); Brent Mater (Zavcor Trucking); Jeff Stocker (Spring Creek Carriers) and Henry Wilks (Double D Transport) personally introduce themselves to the industry.
Louis Carette with Kriska graduated from Humber in 2008. In addition to being a professional driver and trainer for Kriska, Louis is a co-chair of the Health & Safety Committee and has proudly represented Kriska at the Regional and Provincial Truck Driving Championships. Louis was also recognized as Ryder Canada’s Safest Driver of the Year in 2015.
Team members are selected by a panel of industry, government, Road Knights alumni, and media representatives every two years.
OTA Road Knights are available for community outreach events and will provide insight on sharing the road with a transport truck and how all road users can be partners in safety. Please contact Hina Brinkworth at 416.249.7401 x234 or email hina.brinkworth@ontruck.org to book a free presentation by an OTA Road Knight for your school or community event.
When:
May 11, 2017
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Humber employees are covered by the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA). The OHSA is based on an internal responsibility system and identifies roles and responsibilities for employers, supervisors and employees or “workers”. The Act also gives workers specific rights for the protection of their own health and safety.
Workplace Responsibilities
Humber as the Employer
The OHSA sets out many duties, or responsibilities, for the employer. The overriding purpose of these requirements is the creation and maintenance of a healthy and safe workplace. As an employer, Humber must:
- make sure workers know about hazards in the work they are doing by providing information, training, instruction and supervision on how to work safely
- create workplace health and safety policies and procedures and ensure that they are being followed
- ensure supervisors are competent, as defined in the OHSA, and that they know what is required to protect their workers’ health and safety
- ensure that the equipment, materials and protective devices, as prescribed by regulation, or required by Humber, are provided, used and maintained in good condition
- provide information and assistance to the Joint Health and Safety Committee to allow the Committee to carry out its duties effectively
It should be emphasized that the employer has a general duty to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker.
Supervisors
As defined in the OHSA, a supervisor is a person who has charge of a workplace or authority over a worker. The OHSA requires the supervisor to follow the Act and regulations as well as the policies and procedures that the employer has made a requirement of the workplace. Supervisors must:
- advise workers about hazards in the work they are doing and respond to worker concerns
- show workers how to work safely and ensure that they follow the OHSA, applicable regulations and workplace policies and procedures
- make sure workers wear and use the proper protective equipment and devices correctly
Employees or “Workers”
All Humber employees, unpaid co-op students, and certain other post-secondary learners and trainees participating in a formal work placement in Ontario are considered “workers” under the OHSA. “Workers” must:
- follow the OHSA and regulations as well as Humber policies and procedures
- report any hazards and injuries to their supervisor
- wear and use any required protective equipment
- work in a way that will not injure themselves or others. Note that the OHSA prohibits a worker from using equipment in a manner that may endanger himself/herself or another worker and from engaging in any pranks or horseplay in the workplace.
Worker Rights
All Humber employees are considered "workers" under the OHSA.
All workers have the right to:
- know about existing and potential hazards in the workplace and how to protect themselves
- participate in health and safety; this may mean discussing safety issues with your supervisor or participating in Humber’s Joint Health and Safety Committee
- refuse unsafe work. See Humber’s refusal procedure for more details.
Thank you for reviewing this information. Tomorrow’s message will focus on Scent–Related Issues, and remember that Friday’s message will offer the opportunity to win prizes!
HR Services | Health and Safety Services
NAOSH Week is led by the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE).
More information about NAOSH Week can be found at naosh.ca or csse.org.