Humber Advancement and Alumni invite staff and faculty to connect with us to celebrate Employee Appreciation Day on March 1 for amazing prizes, raffles and more!

You will also have the opportunity to honour your Humber “superstar” with a donation in appreciation of their outstanding work! 

Find our tables at:

• North Campus, LRC, outside the Career Centre (11 a.m. - 3 p.m.)
• Outside the North Campus Staff Lounge (11 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
• Lakeshore Campus L Building, first floor by the elevators (11 a.m. - 3 p.m.)

For those unable to attend in person, a random draw for all employees will be held for a pair of Blue Jays or Maple Leafs tickets and winners will be contacted on March 4. 

Visit humber.ca/donate-HumberGives to honour your Humber superstar today.

For questions, please contact alumni@humber.ca.

Have you ever wondered what makes communication respectful? Or maybe you've experienced conflict in the workplace and you've wondered how you and/or maybe others involved in the conflict might have handled things differently? If so, this training session is for you.

Join the Office of Human Rights & Harassment for a session on Respectful Communication. We'll be looking at how to engage in communications that respects the dignity of all involved, and we'll also be learning a model that puts these principles into practice. You'll have a chance to practice your new skills in the safety of the session and learn a bit about your role in maintaining and promoting respectful communication in the workplace. We'll also be looking at what it means to be trauma-informed in our communications and interactions with others.

These are all tools that can be used with both your colleagues and the student populations you work with. This promises to be a practical, informative, and exciting session, so we hope you can join us.

Email humanrights@humber.ca to register:

• February 22, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
• February 28, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Space is limited.

About the facilitator:

Sharon Naipaul (she/her) is a Mediator, Trainer and Consultant at Strategic Workplace: Equity and Conflict Resolution Solutions. She provides mediation, workplace restoration, workplace assessments, training and other supports to a wide range of workplaces. Sharon has 15 years of experience in labour, employment, and human rights as both a practicing lawyer and a mediator. She has mediated hundreds of disputes, including many multi-party and extremely complex, high-profile cases.

Dates: February 26, 27 & 28, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: North Campus

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Institute is a three-day in-person immersive professional learning experience for Humber faculty.  During the UDL Institute, Humber faculty will reflect on and create opportunities to adopt a UDL framework into their teaching practice, examine their current curriculum practices and design learning experiences that integrate an Antiracism and UDL framework. Faculty who participate in the UDL Institute and successfully complete the final assessment will receive a micro-credential.

Learning outcomes: 

1. Identify the rationale, goals, and principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework 
2. Examine methodologies and strategies that are associated with UDL in higher education 
3. Consider ways to incorporate UDL Principles into teaching practice 
4. Re-design a learning experience, either a lesson or an assessment, using a UDL Framework

This year we will be joined by two pre-eminent experts, Dr. Eric Moore and Ms. Andratesha Fritzgerald. They will be facilitating your Monday and Tuesday sessions, respectively.

Eric Moore, PhD, author of UDL Navigators in Higher Education
Date: Monday, February 26

Andratesha Fritzgerald, EdS, author of Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning
Date: Tuesday, February 27

Faculty who submit a registration form will be contacted via email to confirm their spot in the UDL Institute. By completing this registration form, you are committing to attend all three days.

Note, if you register for the UDL Institute, you do not need to complete a separate registration for the keynote sessions. Space is limited.

Register now

Innovative Learning

A call for all of your students to answer! We have a great opportunity for your students to flex their problem-solving skills at the Student Design Workshop.

The task? Help us design a platform for Humber students and alumni to showcase their employability skills. Students selected for the challenge will be given $350 for participating. Don't miss out.

Apply now

Please share this great opportunity with yoour students. 

Deadline for applications: Thursday, February 15, 2024

Task:

A student deign session where students and their peers help design the Employability Skills Hub; a tool for students, designed by students. The day will consist of:

• Stakeholder engagement session
• Design thinking workshop
• Feature design session
• User persona workshop
• User journey mapping
• And more