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Employment Equity Questionnaire
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April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015

You are invited to complete Humber’s Employment Equity Questionnaire

Humber is committed to principles of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Employment Equity is a program legislated by the Federal Employment Equity Act (1995) to remove barriers to employment for Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and women. Humber includes sexual minorities as part of its overall equity program, including Employment Equity. Your participation is important.

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity invites all faculty, support and administration staff to complete the revised Employment Equity Questionnaire. The information that you provide in the Employment Equity Questionnaire will be kept confidential. Please take a few minutes to complete the confidential questionnaire. 

To access the questionnaire:

  1. Go to fluidsurveys.com/s/HumberCollegeEmploymentEquity
  2. Input your email address in the “Email” box and click “Continue”

If you require the Employment Equity Questionnaire in an accessible format, or have any questions about Employment Equity, please refer to the ‘Resources’ section of the Human Rights, Equity & Diversity website, hrs.humber.ca/diversity or contact Nancy Simms, Director, Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity, at 416.675.6622 ext.4425.

To access more information regarding Employment Equity, please visit: hrs.humber.ca/support/supportresources/humanrightsresources/employment-equity.html

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity thanks you for playing your part in building a more inclusive Humber.

Career Centre: Alumni Career Services Brochure
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April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015
The Career Centre has a limited number of Alumni career service brochures available for distribution to our graduating students through Academic School offices. All Program Coordinators are welcome to request for brochures (maximum 50 print copies) by contacting Byung Oh or Ashvini Sriharan.
 
HR Services Moving Notice
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April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015

HR Services will be moving to its new home on the 6th floor in the Learning Resource Commons on Friday, May 1, 2015.

We will be closed on Friday, May 1 and Monday, May 4. Please call x 4393 if it is an urgent matter.

For print requests such as T4’s, paystubs or letters of employment, kindly submit your request by Thursday, April 30 at 5:00pm for pick up on Friday, May 1 at 11:00am.

We thank you for your patience and understanding during this busy and exciting time. We look forward to assisting you in our new environment!

Innovation of the Year Awards 2015
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April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015

Eligibility:

  • The purpose of the Innovation of the Year Awards is to recognize College employees who have designed and implemented a significant innovation that positively impacts the learning of students in the College.
  • Employees from all employee groups (full and part-time faculty, administrators and support staff) are eligible for nomination.

Criteria: 

The major criterion for nomination is that the innovation has: A Positive Impact On Students’ Learning. 
Additional criteria to be used for judging the merit of an innovation and its impact on students’ learning are:

  • Creativity : The selected innovation will be as original as possible or be a unique adaptation of an existing program, process or concept.
  • Effectiveness: There is evidence that the innovation leads to a better process for accomplishing a task(s).
  • Replication: The significant components of the innovation selected can be replicated in other institutions with a minimum of difficulty. The description of the program will include any conditions necessary for replication.
  • Timeliness: Innovation will not be more than five years old in the institution, but it must have been in existence long enough to have been tested.
  • Currency: There is evidence that the innovation is current in content and adaptive to technological applications as appropriate.
  • Collaboration: The innovation may demonstrate that a considerable collaboration effort has occurred between school/or college teams.
  • Quality : Students and/or staff agree that the innovation increases quality in the course program, office or institution. Evidence of quality may include student ratings or letters of support for colleagues.

Nominations: 

Nomination forms must be signed by two members of the College community and accompanied by:

  • i. A two hundred word description of the innovation.
  • ii. Rationale for nominating the innovation.
  • iii. Objective/purpose of the innovation. 
  • iv. Impact of the innovation. 
  • v. The role/contribution of the innovation to Humber and other community colleges. 
  • vi. Endorsement by division director/dean, associate dean/manager.

Click here to download the Innovation of the Year Awards nomination form.

Have You Completed the AODA Mandatory Trainings?
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April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015

1. Customer Service Standard Training

The Customer Service Standard Training was the first mandatory training to be released under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005) (AODA). All Humber employees who are full-time, part-time, sessional, contract and work-study students are required to complete the AODA Customer Service Standard Online Training. The online training module can be accessed here. 

2. Training for Educators

The Training for Educators is the second mandatory training to be released under the AODA, and requires Humber College to provide educators with accessibility awareness training related to accessible program or course delivery and instruction. All full-time, part-time, sessional and contract educators, instructors, facilitators, presenters, curriculum developers and tutors are required to complete the online Accessibility Awareness Training for Educators. The online training module can be accessed here. 

3. Integrated Awareness Standard Regulation/Ontario Human Rights Code Training (IASR/OHRC)

The IASR/OHRC is the third mandatory training that was released on Humber’s Human Rights, Equity & Diversity web site in July 2014. All employees who are full-time, parttime, sessional, contract and work-study students are required to complete the IASR/OHRC Training. The online training module can be accessed here.

Please note:

  • All employees who fall under the category of “Educators” must complete all three (3) training modules.
  • All other employees must complete only two training modules: (1) Customer Service and (3) IASR/OHRC. 

Thank you for ensuring Humber’s compliance with the AODA (2005).
For assistance, please contact Kathy Provost, AODA Coordinator at kathleen.provost@humber.ca or at 416.675.6622 ext. 5647.

Sara Laux, Manager of PR and Communications
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April 15, 2015

The Marketing and Communications department is pleased to announce that Sara Laux (formerly Sara Chappel) is now the Manager of PR and Communications.

Sara, who has been at Humber for almost three years, previously held the position of Senior Writer and Web Editor. In that time, she has helped oversee production of college publications including viewbooks, degree viewbooks, Humber dialogue and Humber Today along with many other writing and editing projects across the college. Sara’s work as a writer and interviewer can be seen on the Humber.ca homepage and on Humber’s YouTube channel, highlighting the many achievements within the Humber community.

In her role as Manager, Sara will continue to lead the Humber Today news team as well as PR and media relations activities. Please contact Sara at ext. 5778 or sara.laux@humber.ca if you have a story idea, event to promote or program or person to profile.

Please join me in congratulating Sara.

Andrew Leopold
Director of Communications

Update #2 - Unified Communications Rollout
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April 13, 2015
April 13, 2015

Information Technology Services is proud to report Phase 1 of 3 of the unified communications rollout is now complete!

Phase 1 focused on individuals moving to the Learning Resource Commons. Rollout was completed March 31st as planned.  There were no issues of note during the rollout.

The focus has now shifted to Lakeshore Campus (Phase 2).  The first Lakeshore group transitioned last Friday.  The plan calls for Lakeshore to be fully over on the new service by early July.

The project as a whole now stands at 35% complete. Satisfaction with the rollout stands at 100% according to survey data.  Full implementation is on track for November 2015.

For more information, please contact Ryan Burton, Director of I.T. Planning & Client Services, at X5290.

Humber Libraries: Thousands of new eBooks now available!
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April 13, 2015
April 13, 2015

Humber Libraries is excited to announce the following eBook collections are now available to all students, faculty and staff:

  • eBook Academic Collection from Ebsco
  • College Complete eBooks from ProQuest

Access 168,000 titles across all disciplines from university presses and other leading publishers. These collections include unlimited access to all titles, regardless of the number of concurrent users.

Explore these impressive resources at library.humber.ca/ebooks 

This initiative is made possible by the Colleges eBook Consortium Project, a joint endeavour of the Ontario colleges.

Spring 2015 Research & Innovation Funding Recipients
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April 13, 2015
April 13, 2015

We are pleased to announce the Research & Innovation funding recipients for Spring 2015.

Another round of funding will be available for Fall 2015. For additional information, visit: humber.ca/research/faculty or email krista.holmes@humber.ca

Paralegal Studies Networking Breakfast
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April 10, 2015
April 10, 2015

On April 2, 2015 The Business School Placement Centre, in collaboration with the Paralegal Studies Degree Program, hosted a networking event that challenged students to connect with professionals and market their talents. Inspired by the process of “speed dating”, the speed networking encouraged students to interact in groups with legal professionals and required them to be efficient in their use of time.

Noted paralegal, Elaine Page, owner of Page Paralegal and PREP Network, and recipient of the Distinguished Paralegal award in 2013, gave a vibrant and inspiring talk on the value of networking for personal and professional development. Ms. Page drew on her work experience with networking and how it has benefited her professional practice. 

The students were able to engage with a variety of legal professionals with representatives coming from the Ontario Paralegal Association, Singer Kwinter, Legal Aid Ontario, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, and Ceasefire Dispute Resolution. Every student had the opportunity to sit with each professional for ten minutes before having to rotate to the next. Students were challenged to think on their feet and to work at selling their own legal skills.

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