Last week’s Food Truck Festival at Lakeshore and North campuses was a great success! Thank you to the many hungry foodies who attended and participated in the two day festival, raising $1,000 for Humber student awards and scholarships.

Many thanks also to Antonio Folino, the School of Hospitality, Recreation & Tourism, Peter Ivkovic, Parking Services and Wanda Buote for their help with organizing this event supporting Humber Gives.

The next food truck festival is scheduled for April 2019.

Should you wish to learn more about the Humber Gives campaign or other Humber fundraising initiatives, please contact Cynthia Luey, Annual Giving Officer, x4975 or cynthia.luey@humber.ca.

The Humber Arboretum is creating a strategic plan this year and we are looking for your help! Our “metamorphosis” – symbolizing transformation, hope, and joy in being alive – can’t happen without you, and we welcome your input in our online survey.

The survey asks for your ideas and priorities as members of our community, and should take about 10 minutes to complete. The survey is open to everyone, and we look forward to hearing your ideas and feedback. The survey can be found – along with registration for our upcoming focus groups on November 14 and 15 – on our website: 

humber.ca/arboretum/stratplan

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Jen McMillen has accepted an exciting new role as Ryerson University's Vice-Provost, Students.

Both at Humber and within the Ontario postsecondary sector, Jen is a well-known champion for students and leader in student affairs. As Humber's Dean of Students, she has been responsible for the vision, planning and implementation of programs and services designed to create a dynamic and supportive learning environment for our diverse student population.

Jen has been responsible for helping to shape a wide range of our student activities, services and supports, including: advising; career services; student engagement; athletics; student housing and residence life; student inclusion and diversity programming; health and wellness; and student communications.

Jen was instrumental in Humber’s decision to become the first public college in Canada to sign on to the Okanagan Charter, and embed a commitment to health and wellness into both our strategic plan and decision-making processes. Jen was also recognized provincially for her role in garnering government support for innovative mental health first aid training, and for supporting its delivery across the Ontario college sector.

An excellent communicator and collaborator, Jen has built genuine relationships with students, faculty, staff and community partners and ensured the inclusion of students’ voices. She’s also acted as a media spokesperson for the college and played a key role in issues management. Jen has worked to feature more student-created content on social media and online and led the creation and implementation of the successful We Got You campaign.

Jen will certainly be missed here at Humber and Ryerson will benefit from her experience and passion for student affairs. Jen will be on campus until the end of November. Please join me in congratulating Jen on her new role and in thanking her for her contributions to Humber.

Jason Hunter
Vice-President, Student and Community Engagement

This is to inform everyone at Humber that Canada Post has implemented rotating strikes as of Monday, October 22, 2018. They have been on strike since yesterday in Toronto and none of the mail is being picked up or delivered. This means the mailroom cannot process any outgoing mail and will not be picking up the outgoing mail from the schools/departments due to lack of storage and security concerns. However, we still pick up and deliver any internal mail. I encourage everyone to call the mail room at x4443 (North) and x3245 (Lakeshore) should you have any urgent documents to be shipped out. We will try and keep you updated at regular intervals.

Thank you.

Ashfaque Khan