Meet other LGBTQ+ students ● Supportive and Confidential ● For students who are questioning their gender and sexuality, and students who are “out” ● Led by LGBTQ indentified facilitators

LGBTQ+ @ Humber

LGBTQ+@ Humber is a discussion and social group for students who are "out" and who may be questioning their gender and sexual orientation. The group runs for 11 weeks at both the North and Lakeshore Campus locations, and begins January 22nd. Students do not need to sign up in advance, and can show up to as many or few sessions as they like. The group offers a confidential and supportive environment to meet other LGBTQ+ students, and is led by LGBTQ identified facilitators.

When: Wednesdays, 11:45am to 12:35pm
Where: North Campus - GH101

LGBTQ+ @ Humber works from an anti-oppression framework. We recognize that LGBTQ+ students face systemic oppression on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, body size, class, ability, immigration status, country of origin, culture, age and religion. We are committed to creating an environment that celebrates diversity, and challenges all forms of oppression.

   Brought to you by Counselling Services, in collaboration with Humber's Gender and Sexual Diversity Committee

Are you responsible for managing support staff in your role? Did you know that as a manager, it is your responsibility to review position description forms (PDF’s) each year during the performance review process? And that best practice is to review the PDF every time you have a vacancy?

The goal of this workshop is to help managers learn more about Humber’s provincially negotiated job classification plan for support staff positions. This participatory session will offer attendees an overview of effectively writing support staff position description forms, important elements of the support staff collective agreement relating to position classification, and the support staff position review process at Humber.

Erin Holl, Director, Support Staff for the College Employer Council will co-facilitate this session and will discuss job evaluation best practices, offer insight into current classification issues within the College system, as well as discuss important arbitration decisions. Participants will leave with a reference guide on how to complete support staff position description forms in accordance with our negotiated job evaluation plan.

Workshop Highlights:

• A review of completing a Position Description Form (PDF) and important aspects of the Support Staff Collective Agreement.
• An update on important arbitration decisions in classification grievances.
• Overview of the PDF review and classification process at Humber.

Time & Location Details:
Date: Tuesday April 1, 2014
Time: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Room: B308

Facilitators:
Erin Holl, Director, Support Staff, College Employer Council
Jennifer Cosway, HR Consultant, HR Services

At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, 2014, hundreds of millions of people across the globe will switch off the lights of homes and businesses for one hour. Earth Hour is the largest environmental action in history, bringing our voices together to collectively ‘Use Our Power’ and to make the commitment to take action and take better care of the planet  in the year ahead. Here is what you can do at Humber and at home to reduce your power use: 

• Elect an “Earth Hour Superhero” in your department/area, whose job it is to ensure lights are out and appliances, computers and monitors are off at the end of each working day (especially this Friday!)
• Do not print unless absolutely necessary, and minimize printing and photocopying
• Turn off printers, computers, monitors, microwaves and coffee machines at the power points at the end of the day when unused for long periods (this would reduce energy use by 5 per cent). (Especially before you go home this weekend!)
• Share the message with your colleagues, students, friends, family!
• Have dinner in candlelight this Saturday, March 29! …and as many nights as you can!
• Send us a photo showing us what you did during Earth Hour this year via twitter @SustainHumber and you could win a delicious prize!
• Find out more and learn what else you can do for Earth Hour at: www.earthhour.org 

• We have much of our lighting on sensors. Have the lights gone out on you in a meeting and you have to get up and dance to make them turn back on? That’s us conserving energy!
•  We ‘set back’ our heating, cooling and ventilation equipment at 10 p.m. Monday – Friday and at 6 p.m. on the weekends until 6 a.m. Since there are fewer people around during those times, we don’t need to heat or cool the buildings as much, thus conserving energy.
• You can find out more on our website