CENTRES OF INNOVATION
A HUB FOR COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVES WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS & STUDENTS June MacDonald-Jenkins Director, Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) Sr. Dean, Faculty of Social and Community Services Principal, Lakeshore Campus THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION is the latest member of the Humber’s Centres of Innovation (COIs) Network, which is pioneering a new model of education that brings together interdisciplinary teams of faculty, students, and partners to solve complex industry-relevant problems. The Centre for Social Innovation aims to contribute to Humber’s strength in social innovation that focuses on community development. Through the mobilization of fresh ideas, new technologies and entrepreneurial thinking, community issues are addressed on local, national and global levels.
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MARCH 2022 THE INNOVATION ISSUE
"Social innovation provides an opportunity to remove barriers, enhance the livelihood of our local, national, and global communities, and deconstruct previous assumptions. Through a lens of collaboration and community capacity building utilizing a co-creation model we have a real opportunity to extend the already established work of the faculty of Social and Community services and provide a full integrated model of innovative thinking across all Faculties for everyone who is interested to experience." —June MacDonald-Jenkins, Sr. Dean, FSCS/ Director of CSI
