Dear Humber community,

I am excited to share with you the appointment of Steven Chuang as associate dean in the Faculty of Social and Community Services commencing April 3, 2023.

Steven comes to us with 19+ years of multi-sector and multi-funded institutional experience, complemented by years of interdisciplinary expertise in education, urban equity, strategic planning, public policy planning, community-based development, and workforce innovation. He has demonstrated leadership and advocacy for youth/families’ social justice, mental health, and health equity at the systems-change level. With more than 13+ years of successful recent teaching at the degree level, he is well-positioned to support the faculty through his knowledge and experiences in teaching and learning in technology-enhanced environments.

Steven was most recently the President & CEO of the YMCA of Greater Niagara, with a mission to create healthy communities. Previously, he served as Director of Pathways to Education in Regent Park, a national movement aimed at providing wraparound support to at-risk youth through high school perseverance toward graduation. A lifelong diversity advocate, Steven was a member of the Y National Advisory Council for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He is currently Vice-President of the Board of Directors for Youthlink (Toronto’s leading Youth Mental Health agency). He was a Canadian Delegate to the Y World Council 2022 and World Urban Network in Denmark to address global youth issues. In 2018, Steven was invited as a keynote speaker for the City of Toronto’s wellness and resilience conference. He was Steering Committee Co-Chair for SEEN Collaborative (five downtown Youth-serving agencies supporting east-end neighbourhoods), and MTO- Moving Towards Opportunity – a program designed to better prepare youth from low-income communities for sustainable employment, which is now undergoing program expansion and replication in other GTA communities. Steven has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, a Masters in Environmental Studies/Community Policy and Planning from York University, and an MBA from Toronto Metropolitan University.

Please join me in welcoming Steven to the FSCS!

June MacDonald-Jenkins (she/her)
Sr. Dean Faculty of Social and Community Services
Principal, Lakeshore Campus

We want you to share your ideas about food at Humber College and the relationship between food, belonging, community, sustainability, and equity. As a member of the Humber community, Humber and University of Guelph-Humber (UofGH) students and employees, can take part in one of several open house events (schedule below) with a survey to follow in the coming weeks to gather additional insight.

As part of Humber’s 2018-2023 Strategic Plan, the College committed to building a healthy and inclusive community that prioritized well-being. As part of that commitment, Humber has undertaken the development of a holistic food strategy. The food strategy will explore and provide recommendations connected to the role that food can play in our community approach to equity and belonging, health and well-being, and sustainability, while considering the importance of affordability, food security, and quality of life for learners and employees.

For this strategy to represent the needs and goals of our community, it is important that we seek the feedback of Humber and UofGH learners and employees. This is your opportunity to have your voice heard and to contribute to Humber’s Food Strategy.

Open House Schedule:

Humber Libraries and the Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship invite you to take a virtual 360-degree tour of the North and Lakeshore Idea Labs. Navigate through the studios and explore hotspots to learn more about the digital creation and fabrication tools available to Humber and Guelph-Humber students, staff and faculty.

Interested in booking a studio and/or collaborating on an assignment for your students? Reach out to idealab@humber.ca or visit library.humber.ca/idealab.

Humber Libraries is trialing a new database! ProQuest One Literature is a comprehensive destination for the study of literature. It provides content and tools to support the study of literature from a variety of sources including diverse primary texts, criticism, full-text journals, book reviews, dissertations, eBooks, reference material, audio, and video.

Try out the database and then tell us what you think before March 23.