Dr. Bill Angelakos, Associate Dean, Design Programs, Humber, tours the Mechanical Engineering Department at Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology with Professor Sohail Siddiqi.

Humber has partnered with Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology (PIET) of Gujarat, India. The partnership permits PIET’s rising third-year Bachelor of Engineering students to receive credit from PIET for 3-6 weeks of studies at Humber’s School of Applied Technology. 

To formally announce the new cooperation, a delegation from Humber is currently in Vadodara, Gujarat to meet PIET administration and participate in a media event. The delegation includes Diane Simpson (Dean, International), Bill Angelakos (Associate Dean, School of Applied Technology), and Tania Spoljaric-Sherwood (Manager, International Recruitment and Market Development). The visit included a presentation by Angelakos to 108 of Parul’s engineering students and a tour of Parul Institute’s Waghodia campus.

This partnership follows a 2014 MOU signed with Parul Institute of Business Administration (PIBA), one of 19 institutions within the Parul Group of Institutes. That agreement permits PIBA Bachelor of Business Administration graduates to receive credits toward the first two years of a number of Humber’s Bachelor of Commerce programs. This new PIET summer program partnership realizes earlier hopes of developing further pathways allowing Humber staff and students the opportunity to engage in exchange initiatives in India through Parul Group of Institutes. 

About Parul Institute               
Parul Group of Institutes is a multidisciplinary hub of 19 self-financed institutions with more than 22,000 full-time students and 2,000 eminent faculty members within the schools of Management, Engineering, Pharmacy, Architecture, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Nursing, and Physiotherapy. Parul’s campuses are located in Vadodara, Ahmedabad, and Rajkot, Gujarat.  Every year, over 400 students from the surrounding area of Vadodara pursue foreign post-secondary educational opportunities in Canada.  

The Humber Literary Review, a new magazine of art and writing based out of the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, is currently seeking a new poetry editor to join its editorial collective. All candidates must be faculty at Humber (full-time or part-time), and must have a strong awareness of Canadian writing, and Canadian poetry in particular. The HLR publishes twice a year, and is distributed by Magazines Canada. The poetry editor is responsible for receiving and reading all submissions of poetry, and selecting and editing poems for publication, and corresponding with the authors. The editor must also attend on-campus meetings of the editorial collective, which occur throughout the year. (North Campus)

The HLR is extremely grateful for the contributions and hard work done by its previous poetry editor, Mathew Henderson. Mathew is a graduate of the Guelph-Humber MFA program and a part-time teacher at Humber. He is also a published poet, whose first collection, Lease, was called “spare and eloquent” by The New York Times. Mathew will select and edit poems for the HLR’s third issue, currently in production and due out this spring.

All interested candidates should contact Editor Dana Hansen (Dana.Hansen@humber.ca) or Acting Managing Editor Nathan Whitlock (Nathan.whitlock@humber.ca).

More information about The Humber Literary Review can be found here