| Humber College | |
|---|---|
| Motto | More for You |
| Established | 1967 |
| Type | Public |
| President | John Davies |
| Students | 25,000 full-time and over 60,000 part-time |
| Undergraduates | available; pre-university students; technical |
| Postgraduates | available |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Campus | Urban Humber North, Lakeshore and Orangeville |
| Sports Teams | Humber Hawks |
| Colours | gold ; blue |
| Mascot | Hawks |
| Affiliations | CCAA, ACCC, CBIE, Polytechnics Canada, AUCC (Association of Colleges and Universities in Canada) |
| Website | www.humber.ca |
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning is a polytechnic college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Humber offers more than 150 programs including: bachelor’s degree, diploma, certificate, post-graduate certificate and apprenticeship programs, across 40 fields of study. Humber serves 25,000 full-time and 60,000 part-time learners.
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Humber was established in 1967. under its founding President, Gordon Wragg. The first new element Humber College opened on Monday Sept, 11, 1967 at James S. Bell Elementary School, public school on Lake Shore Boulevard West. The Lakeshore Campus began with the addition of the manpower retraining programs on Queen Elizabeth Way in Etobicoke. In November, 1968, North Campus was officially opened by Mayor E.A Horton of Etobicoke and Mayor Jack Moulton of York. In the early seventies, student enrollment was rapidly increasing which led Humber to expand its business and technology programs at both the North and Lakeshore Campuses. Humber College had the largest group of Business students in the province. Three year co-op programs were developed in the early seventies in a range of technology and business programs. After such relation with industry growing together, it was likely companies offer jobs for fresh students.[1] Humber became Canada's largest "Community College" with over 10,000 full time and 100,000 part time learners.
By the early 1980s Humber was developing new programs to respond to business and industry and focusing on flexibility in timetabling including weekend College. Its skills training courses included self-paced programming and,along with Holland College in Prince Edward Island, became the National Centers for industry driven DACUM curriculum. Humber introduced flexible manufacturing and was a pioneer in introducing computer applications in technology programs .Lakeshore Campus at its new permanent location on the lakeshore was the first College to introduce a Solar technology program to respond to the needs of that grwoing industry. Humber had a very large international outreach program, working in over 20 countries and with the assistance of ADB, the Government of Canada (CIDA) and latterly the ACCC (Association of Canadian Community Colleges), it developed the largest international program of all of the Canadian Colleges by 1987. , introducing the concept of responsive tertiary education to countries throughout Africa and Asia. (ACCC Journal).
After the mid 1980s, the College concentrated more on arts and applied arts programs and refocused its energy on internal processes rather than program innovation and on local rather than national or international activities. In this way it became more of a "community "college. It is an Ontario Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.
Located in northwest Toronto (formerly Etobicoke), the Humber North Campus has approximately 15,000 full-time students, with 1,000 of them living in residence.[2] The North Campus, is adjacent to the Humber Arboretum, 250 acres (101 ha) of gardens and natural areas surrounding the Humber River.[3]
The campus includes University of Guelph-Humber, a university-college partnership between the University of Guelph and Humber College.
205 Humber College Blvd. Rexdale Ontario M9W 5L7
The arboretum covers approximately 300 acres (121 ha) of the West Humber River Valley between Highway 27 and the 427 and is easily accessed from Humber College Blvd. It began as an idea in 1972 and came to fruition in 1977. Admission is free.
The Nature Orientation Centre is the focal point of the arboretum and is designed to meet the needs of schools, interest groups and individuals. Within the arboretum one can find woodlot and meadow gardens, native woody plant collections, ponds and more. The Summer Nature Club runs on a weekly basis during the summer and is geared towards children between the ages of 6-12. The current Director is Melanie Sifton The website link
Located along the shores of Lake Ontario, Humber’s Lakeshore campus has approximately 5,000 full-time students, with 400 living in residence.[4] The Lakeshore Campus sits on the large grounds of the former Mimico Insane Asylum and lakeshore Teachers College on the shores of Lake Ontario, in the west-end New Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto (formerly Etobicoke). 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 and enhance its park like setting as an asset to the Southern Etobicoke community. The campus now consists of a number of cottage buildings and the more modern and now renovated Lakeshore Teachers College facilities that were extensively re-worked in the early 1980's. The new L-Building was opened recently in 2011 at the Lakeshore Campus where it has been added as an addition to the cottages located around it.
Humber’s Orangeville campus is at the Alder Street Recreation Complex, Orangeville Ontario.[5] It offers four fully functional and wireless classrooms, a student commons/computer lab, as well as an on-site fitness centre with swimming pool, two hockey rinks, a library and a food court.
Home to Humber TV, Radio Humber and all newspaper, magazine and web production. Humber is the only GTA College with a CRTC campus instructional license and fully operational radio station, Radio Humber FM 96.9.
The LEED gold certified building includes a green roof, passive solar heating and a biofilter system. The building was chosen as one of three Canadian locations to participate in the Sustainable Sites Initiative project to test international guidelines for sustainable landscapes.
In 2005, the school launched a show called Distinguished Artists on TVOntario, produced 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 25 January 2006, the French ambassador to Canada Daniel Jouanneau visited the North and Lakeshore campuses of Humber College.[6] Jouanneau and school officials suggested the program might eventually extended to the culinary arts and media-related programs, such as journalism.[6]
On February 2, 2009, Humber College students became the first to contact an astronaut in orbit using apparatus they built and operated. They made contact with Sandra Magnus at the International Space Station from a lab room at the school's Rexdale campus.[7]
Notable alumni include:
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