Welcoming our SEDS delegation from Indonesia

This article originally appeared on Humber Communiquè

The International Development Institute is pleased to welcome 28 of our Indonesian partners from the Sulawesi Economic Development Strategy (SEDS) project to Humber from May 12–June 21, 2014. The SEDS project pairs Humber with 7 universities in Sulawesi, Indonesia, to increase the capacity of the partner institutes to foster entrepreneurship within their student bodies, and to bolster small and medium    size enterprises (SMEs) in the community.

Following two Training-of-Trainers workshops conducted by Humber faculty in Sulawesi, the delegation of Indonesian lecturers will spend six weeks in Toronto experiencing first-hand how entrepreneurship is taught and fostered at Humber, as well as interacting with the wider business community and visiting successful local SMEs.

The SEDS delegation will be working with Humber staff and faculty from many departments, including the Centre for Teaching and Learning, the International Centre, the Business School and more. Their visit provides an exciting opportunity for our visiting partners, and Humber faculty and students to learn from one another, exploring best practices in Canada and Indonesia. We hope you will join us in welcoming them, and please stop by and say hello if you are at the Lakeshore Campus!

For more information on the SEDS project please visit: The International Development Institute's website

Humber College Students Study at Sea

By: ISEComms, reflections of Humber students
A version of this article originally appeared on Enrichment Voyages.

For the sixth straight year, Mary Lendway, a professor at Humber, joined the spring Enrichment Voyage with 39 students and aseveral colleagues.

Each year, a group of curious minds from the College’s Tourism Management, Broadcast Television, Food & Nutrition Management, Culinary Management and Fitness & Health Promotion programs set sail. Before disembarking, the students sent us their reflections from the past two weeks traveling on the MV Explorer.

Tourism Management students have presented at each pre-port meeting, Broadcast Television students have been filming on board and at each port, and Fitness & Health Promotion students have been running morning exercise classes every day. While participants from each program are working within their curriculum, there are also opportunities for students to learn from each other and from their shared experiences.


In Morocco, we had the opportunity to participate as a group on a service visit to the SOS Children’s Village in Ait Ourir, just outside Marrakesh. If you saw professor Mary Lendway’s lecture on voluntourism you will know that finding a way to support the communities you visit may also offer a deeper more meaningful experience for the traveler.

SOS Children’s Village organization has been working to meet the needs and protect the rights of children around the world since 1949. This NGO helps children who are living without their biological families by providing a safe and nurturing home environment. Humber students worked in the village gardens all afternoon, weeding and planting, followed by an energetic soccer game with the children. A significant amount of funds were raised before the voyage to donate to the village, and we brought toys and supplies for the children too. Many Humber students did not want to leave. It was a meaningful experience for all participants.

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Students on this journey will bring their Enrichment Voyage experiences back to share with the Humber College community, and their time on this voyage may also help them launch meaningful careers.

Summer Study Program: Finland

By: Erika Barratt, Student, Humber College
This article originally appeared on international.humber.ca 

I choose Humber College because it gives me hands on experience and also offers a small class room size making it a more comfortable learning environment.  I can obtain my University degree but in an enjoyable college setting. The Bachelor of International Development at Humber includes a 14-week work placement which will help me integrate into the international work field which will aid me in achieving my overall goal of becoming a project manager overseas.

Finland is home to one of Humber’s partnering colleges, JAMK. It offers a summer business program that is transferable to my program and can widen my international business horizons. 

I decided to study abroad because it was a good opportunity to travel and get a couple of electives finished. I wanted to expand my worldview and become more informed on the Finnish culture and have less of a biased perspective towards other cultures and peoples.

While abroad I got to take courses I would have never had the opportunity to take at Humber. Because of the weekend trips to Estonia, Sweden and Russia we only had 4 days of classes a week. Every week day I attended 4 classes from 8:30am to 4:00pm which included a one hour break. By the end of the trip we attended a total of 12 full days of school within the entire trip.

Studying abroad has allowed me to get outside of my comfort zone and to experience another culture first hand. I learned that cultural differences are more than just difference in language, food and other personal habits. A person’s culture reflects their beliefs, and values that influence their way of life and the way they view the world. It has made me more aware and adaptable to other cultures which are a very important skill in International Development. Studying abroad allowed me to branch out and make friends from around the world. While I was abroad, I got to meet not only Finnish students but also other international student who are studying away from home just like me!  

I love travelling, and I know it is something I will continue to do for the rest of my life, hence the reason I choose a Bachelor of International Development. Next year I am planning to do a whole semester abroad in Ireland through Humber so I can get one step closer to obtaining my degree while seeing and experiencing the world.

"Edelweiss": A Night of Cultural Exchange at IMC FH Krems (Austria)

By: Ted Glenn, Ph.D., Professor of Public Administration and Program Coordinator at The Business School, Humber College

April 25, 2014: After yesterday’s proceedings finished, we presenters went out for dinner en masse. Luckily, management had an inkling of what was coming their way and stuck us in a large room in the back of the restaurant. As staid and stuffy and academic as we all may be during the day, those coils seem to shuffle off quickly as we sit back relax and celebrate a day well done. 

On offer was the ubiquitous schnitzel, risotto, and potatoes, topped off with local beverage offerings.

One of the highlights of the evening was the IMC Masters Days “Oscars,” a customized certificate of appreciation which our host Max handed out – after a gentle roasting – to each and every one of us up on the raised dais. Max and Regina are such warm, gracious and efficient hosts. It is amazing just how smoothly such a large event has gone and how welcome each of us has felt.

Another of the “highlights” of the evening was a – shall we say – “unique” rendering of Edelweiss as post-dinner entertainment. Yes, that’s our very own Alain Londes up there with Moses Koh from Singapore’s Nanying Polytechnic and Gabriel Lopez Gutierrez from Mexico’s Escuala Bancaria y Comercial.  Not quite Christopher Plummer/Julie Andrews quality, but you have to admire the gumption of these three, especially in the YouTube/Twitter era. Wouldn’t catch me…

Take a look at the video here:

Krems 2.0

By: Ted Glenn, Ph.D., Professor of Public Administration and Program Coordinator at The Business School, Humber College

Humber Professor Ted Glenn, currently at IMC FH Krems in Austria, shares further thoughts from IMC Master Days.


April 24, 2014: There seems to be a bit of a disconnect (sorry for the pun) between blogging at this event and the use of social media among participating students. Like almost everywhere else in the world, everyone here has a smartphone and is constantly on it snapping selfies, texting, looking stuff up and more. But the apparent low usage of social media here is striking.


I was alerted to it earlier today during a conversation with Wesley Put-van ben Beemt, a colleague from NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She observed that the level of usage of online portals for things like tourism shopping is five to ten years behind that in North America. People use the Internet to research travel options, but conduct the actual purchase live and in-person. 

I got a sense of the disconnect again during Alain Londes' session. When he asked how many would tweet the ongoing session, the response was none. What's interesting is when he asked how many of them even had Twitter accounts, the response was also none. 

Although these are only two examples of an apparent lack of web activity, it appears that the social media culture is still quite nascent here compared to North America. I would love to hear theories on why!

The Humber View: IMC Master Days in Krems, Austria

By: Ted Glenn, Ph.D., Professor of Public Administration and Program Coordinator at The Business School, Humber College

April 23, 2014: Krems at last! After a long flight to Vienna, and a remarkable day wandering through that city of refined contentment, we arrived in what has to be one of the most charming small cities in all of Austria. At the heart is a medieval walled city that dates to at least the tenth century. It is bounded on the south by the Danube River and to the hilly north vineyards that are just about to come into bloom. And at the western edge lies the IMC Krems campus – an architectural marriage of modernity and history.

Our hosts at IMC FH Krems threw a welcome reception for the impressive array of speakers gathered from IMC partner institutions around the world – France, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Canada, Mexico, the USA, and of course Alain Londes and Ted Glenn from Humber College in Toronto Canada – here to speak as part of the IMC Masters Days.

 

April 24, 2014:  beautiful start to the day in Krems this morning. I went for a run in the orchards up above Krems and tried very hard not to have a heart attack. The hills are soooo steep!

 

Got back to the hotel and had breakfast with some of the presenters. A very international conversation, I have to say. I got a preview from Moses Koh from Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic on his presentation, “What finance textbooks don’t teach us…lessons learned from 50 countries travelled.” Philippe Daudi from Sweden’s Linnaeus University and I discussed some of the ideas he will tackle in his presentation, “On the art of leading others through the art of leading oneself.” And I eavesdropped on a conversation in which Gabriel Lopez Gutierrez from Mexico’s Escuela Bancaria y Comercial talked about some of the themes he will discuss in, “Strategies for intergenerational engagement in Mexico and Latin America.” It will be a very interesting and engaging day.

 

After breakfast, I sat in on Alain Londes’s presentation, “The state of business ethics following the global financial crisis.” Very interesting to sit in on this conversation. Alain started with what he called a distinctly North American perspective on the state of business. That sparked a wide-ranging conversation about what is happening in Austria specifically and Europe in general in terms of ethics and trust. For me, one of the most interesting parts of Alain’s presentation was the “multi-linguality” of it – Alain switching effortlessly between English (used for most of the presentation) and French, German, Russian and Italian as per participants’ backgrounds. I’m of course very envious as I have a very difficult time communicating in just one language effectively. Language, for Alain, seems to be much like playing jazz.
 

Tomorrow, I will deliver a workshop called "Lead from wherever you are: The leader-as-coach approach.” Alain and I will also meet with a couple of students who intend on studying at Humber in the fall. We will show them pictures of Casa Loma and the CN Tower - quite a contrast to this magical medieval city!

Gangham Style Gyeranbbang on my Mind

Gyeranbbang. Do you know what on earth that is?

After some research we found that it is something very delicious, mouth-watering and exotic from Asia. A popular street food from South Korea, Gyeranbbang is basically an egg bread, or egg on bread or bread on egg. Oh well, you can decide!

 

Gyeranbbang: GyeRan is Egg and Bbang is Bread (courtesy: Aeris Kitchen).

Tightly secure inside a sweet succulent muffin, the egg peeps through a fresh and hot slice. The peculiar thing about Gyeranbbang is that a savory egg is held in between layers of batter that bake together into a very soft, steaming muffin.

Why are we talking about Gyeranbbang anyway? We are very envious of our team member, Linda Chao, who got to experience this wonder muffin on a recent recruitment trip to the Gangham District in South Korea and left much for us to imagine.

“One of my favourite street foods in South Korea was Gyeranbbang. The egg was cooked perfectly, not too hard, not too soft, it was just right. I found this at nighttime but it would be great for breakfast too with a cup of coffee! Why don't we have this in Toronto?”

If you can show us the way to a yummilicious Gyeranbbang in Toronto, please connect with us - we promise to share!Finding Gyeranbbang

If you are confident of your Gyeranbbang-making skills, that’s good. If not, we recommend that you first check the recipe before you do so.

About Linda

Linda Chao is Manager, International Recruitment & Market Development for East & South East Asia. She frequently travels to meet prospective students and promote Humber internationally.