Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning is a
polytechnicInstitute of technology is a designation employed in a wide range of learning institutions awarding different types of degrees and operating often at variable levels of the educational system...
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TorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
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OntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
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CanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Humber offers more than 150 programs including: bachelor’s degree,
diplomaA diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study or confers an academic degree. In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to...
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certificateAn academic certificate is a document that certifies that a person has received specific education or has passed a test or series of tests.In many countries, certificate is a qualification attained in secondary education. For instance, students in the Republic of Ireland sit the Junior Certificate...
, post-graduate certificate and
apprenticeshipApprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...
programs, across 40 fields of study. Humber serves 25,000 full-time and 60,000 part-time learners.
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning is a
polytechnicInstitute of technology is a designation employed in a wide range of learning institutions awarding different types of degrees and operating often at variable levels of the educational system...
collegeIn Canadian English, the term college usually refers to a technical, applied arts, or applied science school. These are post-secondary institutions granting certificates, diplomas, associate's degree, and bachelor's degrees.-Terminology:...
in
TorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
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OntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
,
CanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Humber offers more than 150 programs including: bachelor’s degree,
diplomaA diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study or confers an academic degree. In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to...
,
certificateAn academic certificate is a document that certifies that a person has received specific education or has passed a test or series of tests.In many countries, certificate is a qualification attained in secondary education. For instance, students in the Republic of Ireland sit the Junior Certificate...
, post-graduate certificate and
apprenticeshipApprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...
programs, across 40 fields of study. Humber serves 25,000 full-time and 60,000 part-time learners.
History
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. 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.
North
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. The North Campus, is adjacent to the Humber Arboretum, 250 acres (101 ha) of gardens and natural areas surrounding the
Humber RiverThe Humber River is one of two major rivers on either side of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the other being the Don River to the east. It was designated a Canadian Heritage River on September 24, 1999....
.
The campus includes
University of Guelph-HumberThe University of Guelph-Humber is a university-college partnership between the University of Guelph and Humber College. It was established in 2002. It is located on Humber's North Campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
, a university-college partnership between the
University of GuelphThe University of Guelph, also known as U of G, is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1964 after the amalgamation of Ontario Agricultural College, the Macdonald Institute, and the Ontario Veterinary College...
and Humber College.
Humber College Arboretum
205 Humber College Blvd.
RexdaleRexdale is a neighbourhood located in the north-west corner of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It covers the northern section of Etobicoke, which was an independent city until it merged with five other municipalities and a regional government to form the new City of Toronto in 1998. Rexdale was named...
OntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
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The
arboretumAn arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
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
meadowA meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants . The term is from Old English mædwe. In agriculture a meadow is grassland which is not grazed by domestic livestock but rather allowed to grow unchecked in order to make hay...
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
Lakeshore
Located along the shores of Lake Ontario, Humber’s Lakeshore campus has approximately 5,000 full-time students, with 400 living in residence. 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.
Orangeville
Humber’s Orangeville campus is at the Alder Street Recreation Complex,
OrangevilleOrangeville is the name of several places:In Australia:* Orangeville, New South WalesIn Canada:* Orangeville, OntarioIn the United States:* Orangeville, Illinois* Orangeville, Indiana, hamlet in DeKalb County* Orangeville, New York...
Ontario. 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.
Digital Broadcast Centre
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.
Centre for Urban Ecology
The
LEEDLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design consists of a suite of rating systems for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods....
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.
Recent achievements
In 2005, the school launched a show called
Distinguished ArtistsDistinguished Artists is a Canadian interview television series that focuses on all aspects of the arts with the goal of celebrating their guests' careers and achievements to inspire young artists. It profiles big names in music, comedy, drama, and literature.Hosted by writer Lorne Frohman, this...
on
TVOntarioTVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...
, 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 JouanneauDaniel Jouanneau in Vendôme is a graduate of the École Nationale d'Administration and former French Ambassador to Canada, after being appointed to the position in 2004 until 2008...
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.
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 MagnusSandra Hall Magnus is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28, 2009, after having spent 134 days in orbit. She was assigned to the crew of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle...
at the
International Space StationThe International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...
from a lab room at the school's Rexdale campus.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni include:
- Jared Pelletier
Jared Pelletier is a Canadian director, responsible for a number of films including award winner In the Hearts of Men. Pelletier's Halo: Faith has been regarded as revolutionary and a technological feat in micro-budget filmmaking. - Early Life :Pelletier was born in the affluent community of...
(Film Production) - Award Winning Film Director
- Herbert L. Becker
Herbert Lawrence Becker is a magician and the inventor and patent/copyright holder for BOIP...
(Applied and Creative Arts – Theatre/music 1975) Juno AwardThe Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
, author, actor, magician.
- Greg Wells
Greg Wells is a multiple Grammy nominated musician, record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Wells has produced and written hits with Adele, Weezer, Pink, Theophilus London, Deftones, Katy Perry, Rufus Wainwright, The All American Rejects, OneRepublic, Mika, Aerosmith, Burt Bacharach,...
(Applied and Creative Arts – Music) Juno AwardThe Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
and Grammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nominated record producer.
- Howard Anderson (Jazz Performance), musician
- Mike Brown (Funeral Services), Ontario MPP
- The Clayton/Scott Group members Jim Clayton and Andrew Scott
Dr. Andrew Jacob Scott is a Toronto based jazz guitarist. He has released two recordings on the famed Sackville Records label: This One's for Barney and Blue Mercer...
.
- Brian Dickinson
Brian Dickinson is a two-time Juno Award-winning pianist.Dickinson's CD In Transition was chosen as Best Jazz Recording in 1991, and he was named 1993 Composer of the Year by The Jazz Report....
(Applied and Creative Arts – Music) Juno AwardThe Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
winning pianist.
- Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is the professional name of Canadian radio and television personality Amanda Dunn.The daughter of a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, Holiday first became involved in radio at the age of 15....
(Radio Broadcasting, 1996), CHFI announcer
- Anwar Knight (Broadcast Journalism), CTV Toronto personality (fill-in weatherman on Canada AM
Canada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. It is currently hosted by Beverly Thomson and Seamus O'Regan, with Marci Ien reporting from the headline news desk and Jeff Hutcheson presenting the weather forecast and sports...
); other roles on Energy 108, Ez Rock 97.3, z103.5, The Weather NetworkThe Weather Network is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel that broadcasts weather-related news and information 24 hours a day....
, The New VR, Global Television, Canada AMCanada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. It is currently hosted by Beverly Thomson and Seamus O'Regan, with Marci Ien reporting from the headline news desk and Jeff Hutcheson presenting the weather forecast and sports...
, CFTO
- Shawn Little
Shawn Little is a former City Councillor in Ottawa, Canada, for the urban Kitchissippi Ward, consisting of neighbourhoods west of the city centre. He was born in Ottawa and raised in its Westboro neighbourhood, where he attended Woodroffe Avenue and Broadview Public elementary schools followed by...
(Health Sciences), Ottawa City CouncilThe Ottawa City Council is the governing body of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is composed of 23 city councillors and the mayor. The mayor is elected at large, while each of the councillors represent wards throughout the city. Council members are elected to four year terms with the...
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- Gilson Lubin
Gilson Lubin is a stand-up comedian originally from St.Lucia. Raised most his life in Canada, Gilson spent the past couple of years on the CTV programme MTV Live as one of its original seven hosts...
(Comedy), MTV LiveMTV Live was a U.S. television series that aired from 1997 to 1998 on MTV, featuring interviews with celebrity guests, live musical performances, news coverage, and music video premieres.-Series run:...
- Renee Percy
Renee Percy is an actor, writer, and comedian. Percy is best known for her work on the sketch comedy shows Air Farce Live and CTV/Comedy Network's Comedy Inc, and for her Comedy Now! Special “Women of the Night II”...
(Comedy), writer and performer winner "Phil Hartman Award"
- Dina Pugliese
Dina Pugliese is an Canadian television personality, currently the co-host of Citytv Toronto's Breakfast Television. She joined the show in 2006, replacing Liza Fromer....
, host of Breakfast TelevisionBreakfast Television is a Canadian morning news and entertainment program which airs on the Citytv stations . Each station produces its own local edition of Breakfast Television....
Toronto
- George Stroumboulopoulos
George Mark Paul Stroumboulopoulos is a Canadian television and radio personality, best known as the host of CBC Television's George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and being a VJ for Canadian music television channel MuchMusic...
(Radio Broadcasting, 1994), host of CBC News: The HourGeorge Stroumboulopoulos Tonight is a Canadian television talk show broadcast on CBC Television and hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos. Originally known as The Hour from 2005 to 2010, it first aired on January 17, 2005. The program is currently initially broadcast on CBC Television at 11:05 p.m....
, former MuchMusicMuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...
VJ
- Dione Taylor
Dione Taylor is a Canadian jazz singer.Born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Taylor released her first album, Open Your Eyes, in 2004. That album was nominated for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2005. Taylor followed up with I Love Being Here With You in 2006....
(Vocal Jazz), Juno AwardThe Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music...
nominated musician
- Nikki Payne
Nikki Payne , is a Canadian comedian and actress, from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Born with a cleft palate, she is well known for incorporating her lisp into her comedy act. She has won three Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Stand-up Newcomer and Best Female Stand-up...
(Comedian) stand up
- AJ the Wonderdog (Radio Broadcasting, 2002), host of Slammin Christian Hits, host of CT20
- Adam Copeland
Adam Joseph Copeland is a retired Canadian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Edge. He is currently signed to WWE under a Legends contract....
(Radio Broadcasting), former professional wrestler for the WWE, better known by his ring name Edge
- Francine Villeneuve
Francine Villeneuve is a retired Canadian thoroughbred jockey and racing pioneer.She is sometimes referred to by the nickname "The Queen of Fort Erie" because of a long affiliation with the border oval...
(Horse Racing), first female Canadian thoroughbred jockey to win 1,000 races/winningest Canadian female of all time
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