Humber College

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Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

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Motto Stand Out from the Crowd (current ad campaign)
Established 1967
Type Public
President Dr. Robert Gordon
Undergraduates Available
Postgraduates Available
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Campus Urban
Sports teams Humber Hawks
Mascot The Sky Hawk
Website www.humber.ca
Crest image © Humber College

Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (generally referred to as Humber College) is a college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Humber College is the only Canadian college among 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges which are noted for excellence in delivering community college education. It is one of many colleges in the province.

It has two campuses in the city's west end: the North Campus is in Rexdale, on the Humber Valley near Highway 27 and Finch Avenue; and the Lakeshore Campus is near Lake Ontario at the foot of Kipling Avenue on Lakeshore Boulevard.

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[edit] History

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.[1] Jouanneau and school officials suggested the program might eventually extended to the culinary arts and media-related programs, such as journalism.[1]

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 will 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.

[edit] Campuses

[edit] North

The North Campus, which shares space with the University of Guelph-Humber, is faced with constant space shortages. Computer labs and study areas are essentially used to capacity whenever open. Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, Chris Bentley, announced the provincial government will provide $23 million over a ten-year period toward a new building on the campus.

The North Campus has a 250-acre Arboretum that is maintained by the students in the School of Horticulture. It provides a walk with nature along the banks of the West Humber River and reflects a different view of nature as the seasons change. The Arboretum was the scene of a 10-hour search for a former kidnapper.[2]

A new three-storey structure is being created to replace the current B building, and a small section of C will be demolished.[3]

[edit] Lakeshore

Humber College Lakeshore Campus
Humber College Lakeshore Campus
Humber College Lakeshore sign
Humber College Lakeshore sign

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.

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

[edit] Orangeville, planned

With 15,000 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."[4]

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."[4]

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)[4] 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.

[edit] Organization

See Humber College organizational structure.

[edit] Students and staff

[edit] 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.

[edit] Notable alumni

A list of notable alumni includes:

[edit] Sports, clubs, and traditions

Humber Athletics Homepage

Humber College Non-Competitive Alternative Activity Association (NCAAA)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Humber and its students are active in the community, like most other institutions. In the 2005 CN Tower Stair Climb for the United Way, Humber was the top student fundraising team.

Created the Toronto Police Service Rover Crew Canada's only Scouts Canada 22 Division Rover Crew was formed by some Humber College students in the Police Foundation course, in 2005.

Instructor Hilario Duran won a 2005 Juno Award for best contemporary jazz album.

[edit] References and footnotes

  1. ^ a b Rebecca Payne, "French digintary visits school", Humber EtCetera, Toronto: Humber College Journalism program, 26 January 2006. With files from Brian Bento.
  2. ^ Jaimie Kehler, "Police look for suspect in Arboretum". Humber EtCetera, 19 January 2006, page 5, 1/5 page.
  3. ^ Andrea Damiani, "Construction will shrink parking lots". Humber EtCetera, 19 January 2006, page 5, 1/3 page.
  4. ^ a b c Vernon Williston, "New college site to open winter 2007", Humber EtCetera. Toronto: Humber College, Journalism department, 13 October 2005, volume 36, issue 4. With files from Jason Bowser and Jenna Rosman.

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