Dr. Michael Hatton
Vice President of Academics
Humber College
Toronto, ON
Canada
Michael Hatton has been Humber’s representative to CCID since 1991. During that period he has held a number of different roles at Humber, but has always held a key college responsibility in international education.
At Humber, Michael has developed a variety of programs and initiatives specific to internationalizing the institution. For example, he was the architect of Humber’s International Project Management Program, an award-winning post-graduate certificate that has to date placed hundreds of interns and graduates in more than 40 countries around the globe.
Michael has also been the chief author and implementer for numerous development projects led by Humber and various other college consortia of which Humber has been a member. This includes a five year project in south India providing strategic planning expertise to 13 polytechnics; two, four year projects in Bangladesh focusing on business development; a four year program in Zimbabwe designed to re-develop business curricula in a local polytechnic; a five year program in Tanzania working with a local polytechnic to develop a practical approach for building a successful microfinance program; and a three year program for civil service training in Bhutan.
Canada’s major funding agency for international development – the Canadian International Development Agency or CIDA – has also relied on Michael’s expertise on many occasions over the past few decades. He has, for CIDA, created the framework for major development initiatives in Indonesia and Vietnam; evaluated, written and published a widely distributed analysis of sustainable, community-based tourism sites in Asia; evaluated large multi-year development projects in the Philippines and southern Africa; and edited a text on a regional analysis of lifelong learning in the Asia Pacific.
Most recently, Michael has worked with the Province of Ontario to launch a study-abroad scholarship program where in less than three years more than 280 college students have received $700,000 in scholarships. This program will be useful to support the new study-abroad linkages that Michael has developed between Humber and Kansai Gaida University in Japan, Myongyi University in Korea, Stuttgart University in Germany, IMC Fachhochschule Krems in Austria and Glamorgan University in Wales.
A key achievement for Michael has been the development and expansion of Humber’s linkage with Ningbo University in China. Now in its 12th year, this linkage brings anywhere from 80 to 160 students each year to complete their advanced diploma in Toronto, following which most go on to complete further education in Canada, the U.S., England and Australia.