Join Arboretum staff for an introductory bird walk. All experience levels are welcome.
May is the month for the Toronto Bird Celebration. Between our year-round residents and the migratory birds who pass through each spring and fall, over 350 species of birds have been observed in Toronto. Take a break during lunch and take a walk with Humber Arboretum staff to see which ones we can spot hanging around the gardens and woodlands.
When: Thursday, May 18 from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m.
(Please note: the walk will start promptly at 12:15 p.m. Please arrive a few minutes early or if you end up a few minutes late just look around the garden for the group.)
Where: Outdoors at the Humber Arboretum at the back of North Campus (205 Humber College Blvd).
Meet at the Centre for Urban Ecology, the glass building with the red door on the Arboretum grounds. View the Centre for Urban Ecology on Google Maps
How: No pre-registration is required. Just show up!
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Register to join Community-Based Research Canada (CBRCanada) for this free e-learning event highlighting community-based research making positive social change.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
12 - 2 p.m. (EDT)
Zoom meeting
Description
CBRCanada presents “Moving the Dial,” our 2023 e-Learning series. This series will highlight action-oriented community-based research that is ‘moving the dial’ on today’s pressing societal challenges. An important hallmark of community-based research, taking an action-orientated and impactful approach, means research partnerships mobilizing knowledge and mobilizing communities towards positive societal change. The research projects highlighted within this series demonstrate impact of community-based research. We will hear about research partnerships that facilitated actions improving societal conditions, including changes in policies, systems, organizations, and communities where everyone is supported and belongs.
Webinar
This webinar will delve into a community-based participatory research study "South Etobicoke Housing Affordability", led by Salomeh Ahmadi, Humber College, in partnership with LAMP Community Health Centre that focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of the most marginalized in South Etobicoke (Toronto), specifically low-income, seniors and students who face housing affordability issues.
There are many issues standing in the way of affordable housing in cities across Canada. They pose threats to those facing poverty, health challenges, and others including working-class citizens, students, and seniors. This webinar will not only document the problems, but it will explore ways to leverage research results in advocating for policy changes.
Live Discussion
Following the presentation, CBRCanada will facilitate a live discussion to explore implications for practice. Breakout groups will be facilitated by webinar presenters. The event will conclude with a large group report-back dialogue. The live discussion will not be recorded. CBRCanada will share a summary of key discussion themes following the event.
Presenters
Salomeh Ahmadi, BHSc, CYCP, MBA. Instructor & Researcher, Faculty of Social & Community Services (FSCS), Humber College, Ontario.
Salomeh Ahmadi is passionate about working with communities to support authentic relationships and in the pursuit of community economic development, equity and social justice. She's a college professor and researcher, and on the side, provides consulting for social change organizations. She's always open for creative collaborations or partnerships. @SalomehA // Linked In
For questions, please email info@communityresearchcanada.ca in advance of the event.
The International Centre contacted graduating international students via email (on April 12, 2023) to provide information about Post-Graduation Work Permit application processes, as well as to provide details regarding two upcoming PGWP workshops.
Workshop dates/times are as follows:
Please share with your students or attend a workshop to learn more about the application process. If you would like to review the information that was shared with students, please view the attached file.
Advising & Career Services is excited to announce that registration for the eighth Annual Advising Conference is now open!
The Humber Advising Conference is a three-day hybrid professional development opportunity for the Humber Community to share, connect, and engage in learning experiences focusing on professional advising practices and student support at Humber College.
This year's theme is "A Space for All to Succeed: Making Inclusion a Reality".
The 2023 Advising Conference will be a hybrid event:
Please visit our webpage to register for the 2023 Humber Advising Conference.
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Advising & Career Services is excited to announce that the 8th Annual Humber Advising Conference will be held as a hybrid conference during the week of May 15. This year’s theme is "A Space for All to Succeed: Making Inclusion a Reality".
We look forward to having advisors, program coordinators, faculty, and staff from all departments and academic Faculties at Humber and Guelph-Humber join us to discuss, share, and learn about advising techniques, skills, and issues that affect us all.
Was this event previously called Advisor Training, and has the name changed? Yes! Many folks in the Humber and Guelph-Humber community have previously attended this event under the name of Advisor Training. To better showcase the breadth of opportunities for learning and engagement among the professional advising community at Humber College, we have retitled the event to the Humber Advising Conference.
We look forward to meeting, bulding connections, and learning with everyone in May.
Shanice Coker
shanice.coker@humber.ca
Micah Udenby
micah.udenby@humber.ca
University of Guelph-Humber hosts its sixth annual Science Rendezvous family festival in mid-May taking STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) out of the lab, enabling the community to experience it and interact with faculty, staff and students.
This free, fun, all-ages event offers 40+ interactive student-led activities that sparks curiosity and inspires STEAM-learning. From an indoor planetarium to an interactive crime scene to various fitness testing activities with Kinesiology students to tours of the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation STEAM labs - there's something for everyone!
The event also offers high school students and their families a unique opportunity to meet and engage with several student leaders, staff and faculty, so they can ask questions, share their thoughts and learn how post-secondary students balance their studies, responsibilities, self-care, and be their own self-advocates.
Register to join us virtually on Thursday, May 11 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Humber’s Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) is seeking researchers and community partners interested in applying for 2024 NSERC-CCSIF Grants (College & Community Social Innovation Fund).
The NSERC College and Community Social Innovation Fund (CCSIF) enables colleges to increase their capacity to work with communities and to develop partnerships that foster social innovation in areas such as education, integration of vulnerable populations, and community development. CCSIF grants support well-defined and focused social innovation projects undertaken by college researchers with their partners from the public, private, or not-for-profit sectors. ORI is facilitating this introductory information session as part of that support.
What you’ll learn:
Our facilitator, Manivannan Kannan is a Project Analyst at the Office of Research and Innovation with a post-graduate degree in International Business Management. He is a Certified Project Management Professional, Certified Scrum Master, Licensed Innovation 360 practitioner YB, and has a Bachelor’s in Commerce. As Project Analyst, he manages an NSERC-CCSIF funded portfolio of nine live projects with a value of over $6.7M CAD. Mani works closely with faculty researchers and the research team in the development of grants and funding applications, managing the funds that have been funded to the Humber, day-to-day project management, financial management, the development of an inclusive innovation program, and Change management. Mani has facilitated and participated in a range of business intelligence projects and workshops showcasing proficiency in data analytic tools such as Excel, Tableau, and Power BI.
Join Humber Indigenous Education and Education in a viewing of the livestream of The Moose Hide Campaign event and to participate in conversation.
The Moose Hide Campaign is a movement standing against violence towards women and children. Wearing the moose hide pin signifies your commitment to protect the women and children in your life and speak out against gender-based and domestic violence.
Please join us for the Sustainability Town Hall on Wednesday, May 10 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Humber is in the fifth year of the Sustainability Plan and an update on our progress will be provided.
The Town Hall will include details of Humber’s latest STARS submission, celebrating the College’s highest achievement yet, and SWITCH, the largest emissions-reduction project at North Campus to date, along with several other noteworthy initiatives from the past year.
Attendees are welcome to ask questions during the Town Hall or submit them in advance when registering.
Hope to see you there – register today!
In early December 2021, Humber officially launched a group for employees who identify as white and/or as having white skin privilege to examine how they have been conditioned by their whiteness and how it shows up in their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and within their institutions (home, work, educational, religious, etc.). The Unlearning Circle focuses on unpacking and dismantling white supremacy culture, unlearning it, and changing the behaviours that perpetuate it.
Interested in joining the circle or have questions about it? For more information email theunlearningcircle@humber.ca, or visit our webpage to learn more and access past meeting materials.
Next session: The Circle will hold its fifteenth session virtually on Wednesday, May 10 from 12:05 p.m. to 1:25 p.m.
