Welcome to all Full-Time and Part-Time Humber Faculty! We are excited to welcome you and hope you can join us for Orientation week. Please visit our website for all the Orientation week activities we have lined up for you Monday, August 24 to Friday, August 27. 

Monday, August 24: Welcome

Welcome to all new full-time and part-time faculty!

On Monday, August 24, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., we invite you to an online welcome session for all new faculty. During the session, you will meet members of Humber’s executive leadership team, learn about our institutional priorities and student-centered focus, and find out about the training and resources available to you as a faculty member.

Tuesday, August 25 and Wednesday, August 26: New Part-Time Faculty Orientation: Teaching and Learning at Humber College

This session will introduce you to Teaching and Learning at Humber College.  We look forward to including you in our conversations about facilitating learning in this newly online world.  As a polytechnic institute, our goal is to build career-ready citizens. We do this by developing deep levels of subject matter expertise through an active learning environment, with plenty of opportunities to apply new knowledge.  This session will share tips, tools and templates to help you bring these goals to life.  All are warmly welcome.

1. Who are we, and who are you? Introductions
2. Where does online learning take place? Understanding the “Community of Inquiry”
3. Who are our learners? Understanding learner variability
4. Four A’s of lesson planning
5. Launching your online course: What/when is “Day One?”
6. What do learners need to be engaged?
7. Being present in your online course
8. Questions and answers
9. Invitation to the Part Time Faculty Series: Monthly meetings forthcoming (survey on topics of interest)

Thursday, August 27 and Friday, August 28: ED-Venture Days

ED-Venture Days is a two-day online conference for all Humber faculty. It will take place on August 27 and 28.

Conference offerings include interactive sessions, panel discussions, and featured keynote speaker, Dr. Sarah Eaton. This conference aims to connect Humber colleagues with one another and to encourage interdisciplinary conversations focused on teaching and learning. You are welcome to attend as many of the sessions as you wish. Registration ahead of time is encouraged but not required. For each session you attend, your name will be entered into a draw to win one of five 1-year subscriptions to Padlet or Mentimeter (terrific online teaching tools — you choose which!).

This summer, Advising & Career Services will be offering our Career Steps Workshop Series virtually.

Please share with any students who are looking for support in:

• Writing Effective Resumes & Cover Letters
• Interview Skills
• Creating a Professional LinkedIn Profile

The schedule and link to the virtual sessions can be found at here. 

From May to August, the 3 Career Steps Workshops will be held during the following weeks and times:

• May 26, 27, 28 | 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
• June 17, 18, 19 | 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
• July 14, 15, 16 | 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
• August 12, 13, 14 | 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

As a reminder, Advising & Career Services are available and being delivered virtually during the COVID-19 campus closure: careers.humber.ca/updates-career-services.php

Due to popular demand, another Ergonomics at Home webinar has been coordinated for Humber employees. It will be held on Wednesday, August 12 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

This webinar is intended a resource for those who are interested in learning how to work more comfortably from home.

If you or a colleague would be interested in joining on August 12, please register here. 

Join Adam Benn, Manager Education & Training, Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity and Sacha Ally, Specialist, The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity.

Objective: To explore the impact of racial microaggressions in the virtual environment and discuss strategies for addressing racial microaggressions in the virtual environment.

Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward racialized people. Perpetrators of microaggressions are often unaware that they engage in such communications when they interact with racialized people.

This workshop provides college faculty, staff and administrators with an introduction to racial microaggressions and their numerous manifestations in educational settings.

It will explore the outcomes associated with the experience of microaggressions as well as providing recommendations on how to minimize the occurrence of microaggressions and ways to respond when someone has been microaggressive.

(Support staff only session)

To register: hrs.humber.ca/register

Email: zareena.khan@humber.ca