It’s an important moment for Humber College with the launch of our transformative Academic Plan and Digital Campus Plan that will help guide the College’s future for the next several years.

These forward-looking plans identify future-focused priorities and strategic opportunities to support innovation in the ways the Humber community teaches, learns and works. I encourage you to take a moment to read them to see what we are prioritizing and how we plan to achieve our goals in the coming years.  

One trait of the Humber community that I’ve observed from my first day is our deep-rooted commitment to collaboration. Interdisciplinary projects and cross-institutional work that drive the College forward happen at Humber regularly and that collaboration is evident in the creation of these plans.  

Our Centres of Innovation Network connects Humber students to new experiential learning opportunities, and there are so many examples of the way collaboration between students from different programs results in innovation. Here’s just one of the most recent examples.  

The two plans, which will specifically guide our activities from 2023 to 2026, were developed simultaneously and with close integration that will allow them to be implemented in a coordinated manner. Feel free to explore the new plans when you have a moment for more details on the joint consultations that helped inform them.

The plans also align with Humber’s EDI Framework and were guided by the College’s commitment to creating an inclusive campus environment and integrating Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing into our approaches.

If you belong to the Humber community, no matter what you do at the College, these plans are relevant to you. It’s one of the reasons why collaboration was so important when crafting these documents – they are important for all of us. We wanted as many voices as possible to be heard and the entirety of our community represented in them.

The close cross-institutional collaboration that helped bring the plans to life is unique in the post-secondary sector and something that everyone at Humber should be as proud of as I am.

AMV