Humber College

Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

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Motto	Defining Polytechnic Education
Type	Public
Established	1967
President	John Davies
Students	20,000 full-time and over 55,000 part-time
Undergraduates	available; pre-university students; technical
Postgraduates	available
Location	Toronto , Ontario , Canada 43°43′46″N 79°36′33″W
Campus	Urban Humber North, Lakeshore and Orangeville
Sports Teams	Humber Hawks
Colours	gold  ; blue
Affiliations	CCAA, ACCC, AUCC,CBIE, Polytechnics Canada
Mascot	Hawks
Website	www.humber.ca

Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning (generally referred to as Humber) is a polytechnic college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Humber provides over 150 programs including: bachelor’s degree, diploma, certificate, apprenticeship and postgraduate programs. Humber serves 20,000 full-time and 55,000 part-time learners, as well as more than 15,000 employees in custom corporate training.

History

The college was established during the formation of Ontario’s college system in 1967. Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology were established on May 21, 1965. It is on a Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology.

In 2004-05, music program co-ordinator Denny Christianson began an exchange program which sends Humber faculty to the Paris Conservatory. On 25 January 2006, the French ambassador to Canada Daniel Jouanneau visited the North and Lakeshore campuses of Humber College. Jouanneau and school officials suggested the program might eventually extended to the culinary arts and media-related programs, such as journalism.

In 2005, the school launched a show called Distinguished Artists on TVOntario, completely made by students in the School of Creative & Performing Arts.

In the 2005-06 school year, Humber added new Bachelor's Degrees in Contemporary Music, Creative Advertising, and Interior Design. The four-year Creative Advertising program is the only such degree in Canada.

On February 02, 2009, Humber College students Gino Cunti, Paul Je, Patrick Neelin and Kevin Luong became the first college-level students in the world to build and successfully operate the apparatus required to make contact with an astronaut in outer space. They made contact with Sandra Magnus around 12:29PM at the International Space Station from a lab room at the school's Rexdale campus.

Campuses

North

Located in northwest Toronto, the Humber North Campus has approximately 13,000 full-time students, over 1,200 of them living on campus and over 55,000 part-time students.

University of Guelph-Humber

The University of Guelph-Humber is a university-college partnership between the University of Guelph and Humber College. It is located on Humber's North Campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school offers seven regular four-year academic programs, each of which grant both a university honours degree and college diploma.

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Humber College North Campus sign

Student Life

The North Campus offers a fast-paced, contemporary atmosphere steps away from entertainment, public transit and a major shopping centre. Student services include restaurants, coffee shops,campus pub, a student centre, areas of parkland and the Humber Arboretum, a bookstore, computer labs and a large library and media facilities. It also offers access to a full athletic centre with indoor pool and saunas.

Programs

The Humber North Campus is home to certificate, diploma, bachelor’s degree, graduate certificate programs and continuing education classes offered by the School of Applied Technology, the Business School, the School of Health Sciences, the School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism, Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Media Studies and Information Technology. [1]

The college also offers a renowned creative writing program, the Humber School for Writers, through its School of Creative and Performing Arts.

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Lakeshore

Humber College Lakeshore Campus

Humber College Lakeshore sign

Student Life

Humber’s Lakeshore Campus sits in a park-like setting on the shores of Lake Ontario, at the west-end of Toronto, Ontario.

Programs

The campus is the backdrop for certificate, diploma, degree and graduate certificate programs, as well as continuing education classes offered by Humber’s Business School, the School of Creative & Performing Arts, Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Media Studies and Information Technology, and the School of Social and Community Services. [2]

Humber also has an English for Academic Purposes program that draws students from all over the world.

Humber College

Built during the late 1880s, the cottage buildings served as a psychiatric hospital called the Mimico Lunatic Asylum (later the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital). When leased by Humber College, the college vowed to keep the historical site in good condition. The campus now consists of a number of cottage buildings mixed with some modern buildings built in the 1970s. The college is in the process of renovating the insides while maintaining the outside structure of the cottages; two buildings remain unoccupied.

Lakeshore served as a primary location for shooting TV movie Martha: Behind Bars, serving as "Camp Cupcake". Before it was Humber, the location was the Police Academy.

Orangeville, planned

With 20,000 full-time students and 55,000 part-time students enrolled at Humber College, between both campuses, student facilities quickly were becoming strained to keep up with demand. It was decided that a third campus would be needed to accommodate students of the college.

Brampton and Mississauga were both named as possible sites for expansion, but President of Humber College Robert Gordon commented "we didn't want to do this in an area that would cannibalize what we are currently doing. We get a lot of students from Mississauga, and if we build a campus there it would take away enrollment at ours."

Gordon told Humber EtCetera before the 10 October 2005 announcement that "I don't think we can continue to grow at the North and Lakeshore Campuses without seriously eroding services."

In the end, Orangeville was chosen. The city donated a tract of 11.33 hectares (27 acres) of land to this new Humber campus, in an effort to spur economic development. The college will be located on the east side of Veteran's Way, one kilometre north of Broadway.(map) Construction was set to start in early spring 2006, and the school presumed to open for the winter 2007 semester, with one building housing 600 students. Construction will continue until the campus operates with 2000 students. Gordon told EtCetera the expansion has a CDN$10 million budget.

As of October 2005, programs at the campus were unknown. Due to their high employment success rates, the Tourism and Travel, General Business, and Health for Homecare programs were among the top prospects.

In late-2004, there was talk among Humber officials to open a Barrie campus. The school had investigated pursuing funding for the project, though such a development would likely not happen for many years. Humber would supplement the growing area, only served by Georgian College at present.

Academic and general programming research was conducted throughout the first half of 2006 to assist in the development of a specific ‘academic plan’ for the new college. Beginning in the fall of 2006, a diverse grouping of interest driven topics in the form of ‘Workshops’ will be presented by award-winning authors, quality faculty, and content experts at a variety of locations in the community. An Orangeville Campus Community Relations Office was opened in January 2006 to facilitate academic research and ‘general’ community awareness of the new college campus. [3]

Students and staff

Literary staff

Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Jane Urquhart, and other respected Canadian writers have taught Humber's The Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program in Creative Writing. International authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford, have also been included throughout the years. There are dozens of Pulitzers, GGs, Bookers, Commonwealths, Hugos, Nebulas, Trilliums, Engels, IMPACs between the extensive list of acclaimed authors.

Other authors include David Adams Richards, Ann Beattie, John Bentley Mays, Constance Beresford-Howe, David Bergen, Michelle Berry, Sandra Birdsell, Neil Bissoondath, H. S. Bhabra, Dionne Brand, Bonnie Burnard, Catherine Bush, Barry Callaghan, Stevie Cameron, Peter Carey, Hayden Carruth, Wayson Choy, Eliza Clark, Karen Connelly, Douglas Cooper, Carole Corbeil, Michael Coren, Alan Cumyn, Robyn Davidson, Erika de Vasconcelos, David Donnell, Roddy Doyle, Howard Engel, Timothy Findley, Cecil Foster, Bruce Jay Friedman, Mavis Gallant, Graeme Gibson, Elisabeth Harvor, Michael Helm, Isabel Huggan, Diane Keating, Joseph Kertes, Shaena Lambert, Mark Leyner, John Metcalf, Anne Michaels, Christopher Moore, Kim Moritsugu, Sylvia Mulholland, Howard Norman, Tim O’Brien, Caryl Phillips, B. W. Powe, Paul Quarrington, Daniel Richler, Nino Ricci, Robert Sawyer, Richard Scrimger, Olive Senior, Sarah Sheard, Carol Shields, Antanas Sileika, Joseph Skibell, Linda Spalding, Josef Skvorecky, Susan Swan, D. M. Thomas, M. G. Vassanji, Marianne Wiggins, and Eric Wright.

The Humber Writer's Circle is often held by the department, to discuss and critique writing, and network with other emerging authors. Susan Swan and Wayson Choy have both participated in the meetings. The circle is based on the Writers' Circle of Durham Region.

Notable alumni

A list of notable alumni includes:

• Greg Wells (Applied and Creative Arts - Music) Juno Award and Grammy Award nominated record producer, based in Los Angeles, sold over 60 million records
• Mike Brown (Funeral Services), Ontario MPP
• The Clayton/Scott Group members Jim Clayton and Andrew Scott (music), named Group of the Year at the 2005 and 2006 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards and winners of Best Jazz Recording at the 2004 Canadian Urban Music Awards.
• Brian Dickinson (Applied and Creative Arts - Music) Juno Award winning pianist
• Billie Holiday (Radio Broadcasting, 1996), CHFI announcer
• Anwar Knight (Broadcast Journalism), CTV Toronto personality (fill-in weatherman on Canada AM); other roles on Energy 108, Ez Rock 97.3, z103.5, The Weather Network, The New VR, Global Television, Canada AM, CFTO
• Shawn Little (Health Sciences), Ottawa City Councillor
• Gilson Lubin (Comedy), MTV Live
• Dina Pugliese, host of Breakfast Television Toronto
• George Stroumboulopoulos (Radio Broadcasting, 1994), host of CBC News: The Hour, former MuchMusic VJ
• Dione Taylor (Vocal Jazz), Juno Award nominated musician
• AJ the Wonderdog (Radio Broadcasting, 2002), host of Slammin Christian Hits, host of CT20
• Daniel Kocmiel (Fitness & Health Promotion) Competing in the 2007 Arnold Classic of Bodybuilding.

See also:

• Humber Premier Award Nominees
• Humber's own wall of distinction for notable alumni

Sports, clubs, and traditions

The schools team name is the Hawks.

Varsity sports at Humber include:

• Badminton
• Basketball
• Cross Country
• Golf
• Rugby
• Soccer
• Volleyball
• Cheerleading
• Dance

See also:

• Humber Athletics Homepage
• Humber College Non-Competitive Alternative Activity Association (NCAAA)

Media

Recent winner of the prestigious 2004 Apple Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Humber Etcetera is the college's school newspaper.

The school's campus radio station, CKHC, was the first radio station in Canada to voluntarily adopt a 100 per cent Canadian content playlist.

External links

• Humber College ITAL
• Humber Arboretum
• Humber Libraries
• Media: EtCetera newspaper (student-published), Today newspaper (administration-published), 96.9fm radio station
• Student union: Humber Students' Federation

See also

• Higher education in Ontario
• List of universities in Ontario
• Canadian Interuniversity Sport
• Canadian government scientific research organizations
• Canadian university scientific research organizations
• Canadian industrial research and development organizations