Humber College is committed to providing a learning, working and living environment that respects and reflects the diversity within the student population and our local and global communities. In developing Humber’s Institutional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Framework and Strategy, the Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion re-established Humber’s Employment Equity Program (EEP). One of the steps in the EEP is to conduct an Employment Systems Review (ESR). The ESR Project will be conducted under the direction of the Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion and Humber’s Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion Committee.

The ESR examines employment policies, practices and organizational culture to identify systemic barriers to inclusion faced by Indigenous Peoples and individuals from equity-deserving groups in the Humber workforce. The ESR findings will support Humber to develop evidence-based strategies to create, implement and sustain the organizational change process necessary to increase equity, diversity and inclusion throughout all levels of the College.

The key project activities are a review of Humber’s employment systems policies and programs, consultations with key stakeholders and the development of an Employment Equity Plan. This will be supported by a communication strategy to educate, inform and engage employees.

In these meetings, the consultants will ask about the organizational culture at Humber and how the human resources employment policies and procedures can be enhanced. They will seek your suggestions on possible changes to advance EDI at the College. Information provided to the consultants will be reported in aggregate form.

Thank you to all who attended the first ESR Focus Group Open Session.

Two additional ESR Focus Group Open Sessions have been scheduled with the consultants:

• Saturday, November 20, 2021 - 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
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• Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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Please note: Multiple ESR Focus Groups will be held with the consultants. To enable as many faculty and staff participation in these focus groups, kindly attend only one ESR Focus Group meeting.

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion thanks you for helping to build a more inclusive Humber.

Sincerely,
Nancy Simms M.A. ADR
Director, Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion and Lead, EDI Taskforce

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.

All Humber community members are welcome to join Student Success and Engagement for an ally-led observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance on Friday, November 19, from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (EST).

This will be time dedicated to pausing and reflecting on how we can strengthen our collective support of the Transgender community at Humber College. We encourage staff and faculty to join us in this important dialogue.

To attend this event please fill out the Eventbrite link and also please feel free to connect with chantal.joy@humber.ca should you have any questions or accommodation requests.

Please note that the LGBTQ+ Resource Centre will also be hosting a variety of student-centered events to honour and support the Transgender student community.

Come discuss Shakespeare! Once per month we look at a play by Shakespeare from the perspective that Shakespeare might have something to teach us (rather than the other way around) about politics and human nature. Open to interested Humber faculty, administrators, support staff, and students with a recommendation from a professor. You don’t need a background in English literature to attend.

Our next play is Macbeth and we meet Thursday, November 18 at 8 p.m. on Zoom. 

Macbeth is a play about a politically ambitious noble and saviour of his country who degenerates into a despised tyrant. He’s the natural ruler, but seizing power destroys him. Most of us studied it in high school, but what did we miss?

Coming plays: Merry Wives of Windsor on Thursday December 16 and Julius Caesar on Thursday, January 20.

Free text at www.opensourceshakespeare.org. Arden, Signet, and Oxford editions of Shakespeare are also good. For Macbeth, there’s a new edition by Jan H. Blits with useful notes.

Videos: Humber College Library has all of the BBC (early 1980’s) videos available which can be watched online.

RSVP: Kirk Rintoul, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Business at kirk.rintoul@humber.ca for the Zoom link.

Limited to 15 confirmed attendees (waitlist if necessary).

The 2021 RAP Research Forum continues its tradition of showcasing insightful student work, and hosting enlightening speakers. This year's distinguished panel will address the theme Reconciliation and Research. The panel will discuss how the paradigms that structure and support positivist, scholastic, and commercial approaches to research might be restructured and invigorated in the light of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, so as to revivify the relationships between the researcher, the researched, and the community. 

Join us online on Thursday, November 18 from 12 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. 

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Meet our panel speakers: 

Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Ph.D.
Chair on Truth and Reconciliation, Lakehead University
Dr. Wesley-Esquimaux was inducted as a “Honourary Witness” by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2014 and appointed as the 1st Indigenous Chair for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada for Lakehead University in 2016. She continues to develop pathways forward to reconciliation across Canada.

David Danto, Ph.D., C. Psych.
Program Head, Psychology, University of Guelph-Humber
Chair, Canadian Psychological Association Standing Committee on Reconciliation
Dr. Danto is a clinical psychologist and Head of Psychology at the University of Guelph-Humber. His clinical and research interests include Indigenous wellness and culture-based approaches to addressing intergenerational trauma in local and global contexts.

The event will include a panel discussion, showcase of student projects and a networking social. Read more about our panel speakers and view the schedule at humber.ca/rapresearchforum.