Sheridan Course Feedback Survey for full-time programs will be administered in class during the period of March 10, 2014 to April 11, 2014. All faculty involved in administering the survey whether electronically or by paper, will be contacted directly by their respective Faculty contacts with URLs and instructions.

Link to the online survey:

https://cci-research.ca/sheridan

The online survey will also be available via ‘Access Sheridan’ portal in the ‘Sheridan and Provincial Surveys’ section. You can view the survey questions and administration guidelines by using the following links.

Survey Administration Guidelines:

http://cci-research.ca/sheridan/instructions/online.html

http://cci-research.ca/sheridan/instructions/paper.html

Survey Questions:

http://cci-research.ca/sheridan/instructions/paper_survey.pdf

Program Codes:

http://cci-research.ca/sheridan/instructions/program_codes.pdf

Faculty contacts for this semester are:

FACULTY OF ANIMATION, ARTS AND DESIGN:

Amber Long  – Trafalgar Campus

FACULTY OF APPLIED HEALTH AND COMMUNITY STUDIES:

Laura Christopherson – Overall

Jennifer Campbell – Trafalgar Campus

Priya Ramesh – Davis Campus

Farah Al-Mali – Davis Campus

FACULTY OF BUSINESS:

Charlene Craddock – Overall

Stella Coleman – Trafalgar Campus

Josie Pendola – Trafalgar Campus

Cheryl Shirley  – Davis Campus

Lesley Rumsby -  Davis Campus

Darlene Davidson – Davis Campus

Sarah Bell – Hazel McCallion Campus

Lynn Esson-Irvine – Hazel McCallion Campus

Brenda Ciolfi – Hazel McCallion Campus

Linda Sutherland – Hazel McCallion Campus

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:

Gillian Morris – Overall

Julia Sestito – Davis Campus

Maria De Sousa – Davis Campus

Christina Spadafora – Davis Campus

Donna Newberry – Davis Campus

Jacqueline Smith – Davis Campus

Maria Luisa B. Manganaan – Davis Campus

Sharlene Brown – Davis Campus

Carrie Green – Trafalgar Campus

Aislinn Moore – Trafalgar Campus

Catherine Runciman – Trafalgar Campus

Valerie Hughes – Skills Development Centre

Angelia Wigfield – Skills Development Centre

April Keogh – Skills Development Centre

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES:

Rossana Gorys  – Overall

Kavita Mathews – Davis Campus

Mariola Kerepesi – Davis Campus

Jessica Hinchliffe – Hazel McCallion Campus

Adele Dodge – Trafalgar Campus

Kelly Quinn – Trafalgar Campus

Academic Upgrading:

Erica Harris – Skills Development Centre

Shelly Basdeo – Davis Campus

Overall Process: Pam Sondhi – ext. 2132

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the survey, please contact Pam Sondhi, Institutional Research Analyst at pam.sondhi@sheridancollege.ca

The Co-operative Education department recently nominated two Sheridan students for Co-op Student of the Year awards to both the provincial association, Education at Work Ontario (EWO)  and the national Canadian Association for Co-operative Education (CAFCE). Students are considered on the basis of their academic achievement, employer contributions, community involvement and their success in co-op.

I am thrilled to announce that for the second year in a row a Sheridan student has been selected as CAFCE’s College Co-op Student of the Year.  Kristen Metz is in the Software Development program and is quite extraordinary.  She is an outstanding student (3.99 GPA), highly recognized by her employers, and has overcome the significant challenge of having lost her sight several years ago.  Kristen completed a work-term at Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) where she worked in the web development area. The new employee web tools she designed and implemented resulted in increased productivity by IESO staff and are used to this day. In the community, Kristen is a member of KNOW IT (knowledge Network of Women in IT), Lime Connect Canada and has volunteered for the Animal Hospital of Lakeport and the Women’s Shelter of Adrian. Kristen also assists with fundraisers for the Lion’s Foundation of Canada Dog Guides.  Her spirit is indomitable and she is so deserving of this honour.  Another Sheridan student, Hargurdeep Singh has been given honourable mention by CAFCE.

EWO has selected Hargurdeep Singh as their Co-op Student of the Year.  Hargurdeep is well known and well regarded within Sheridan.  As a second year Mechanical Engineering Technology student (Design and Drafting) Hargurdeep took on 3D printing technologies and used his knowledge to create assistive devices for students with disabilities.  Hargurdeep’s accomplishments are numerous including founding and leading the Sheridan Engineering Association, he is the Student Chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Sheridan College Chapter, Student Project Coordinator of the Tetra’s Youth in Transition Project and Student Ambassador for the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering & Technology.

Please join us on Friday, March 21, at 2:00 p.m. in the President’s Boardroom at Trafalgar for the presentations of the awards to these remarkable students.

This year’s President’s Creative Challenge urges everyone at Sheridan to create an “S” that reflects our connection to Sheridan or that symbolizes what we think makes Sheridan great.

Make sure to be on the look-out starting tomorrow — March 18 – when S-related inspirations will start popping up on each of our four campuses.

Also beginning on March 18, you will be able to officially enter your submission to the challenge at: presidentschallenge.sheridancollege.ca 

Photos of your creations can be shared on social media using the hashtag #GetYourSTogether. Check out @SheridanCreative on Instagram starting tomorrow to see the latest.

Wishing you best of luck with the challenge!

Dear Colleagues,

It is with personal regret, but very warm wishes that I announce the retirement of Wendy Piasentin, whose last day in the Faculty of Continuing and Professional Studies will be Friday, April 4.

After almost 34 years with Sheridan (working in 3 different faculties, at 5 campuses, in over 15 different office locations), Wendy has contributed to the shaping and success of our Continuing Education programming in all of its different forms over the years. Her incredible knowledge of FCAPS and the College, organization, attention to detail and ‘eagle-eye’ editing skills will be truly missed. The Trafalgar office will particularly miss Wendy’s sense of fun and social planning. Our office birthday celebrations will never be the same!

We will be honouring Wendy for her contributions to the College in a farewell get-together to be held in the Staff Lounge in the Cafeteria at Trafalgar at 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. on April 2.

We invite all of you join us in wishing Wendy all the best in her new, exciting life chapter.

Hope to see you there!

Allie Houghton

A member of the illustration faculty (Bachelor of Illustration program) at Sheridan College, Thomas Sevalrud, has once again been named to Luerzer’s Archive Best 200 Illustrators Worldwide for their 2013/2014 book.

Luerzer’s is an international magazine and book publisher for advertising, communication and design, with offices in Vienna, Hamburg, London and New York.

Top illustrators are selected on the basis of professional work that distinguishes itself through originality of the idea and quality of execution. The Archive will be published this spring and will feature the best work produced by illustrators over the past two years.

The image (below) that was selected for inclusion was a piece created for McKinsey Quarterly, an international business publication.

Congratulations to Thomas!

Do you like fixing things and helping others? When friends describe you, does the word “handy” come to mind?

If you’re the kind of person who loves to fix things – rather than see them tossed in the trash – we need your help.

Sheridan is hosting its first-ever Repair Café! The Repair Café aims to reduce the waste that is sent to landfill and change society’s throw-away mindset. Come join our team of fixers for this global movement!

What is a Fixer?

A Fixer is a volunteer who is skilled at repairing household items, everything from appliances to electronics to clothing, you name it. Students, faculty and staff are all needed and welcome.

Sheridan’s First Repair Café

Sheridan will become the first college in Canada to join this global movement.  The Repair Café started in Amsterdam in 2009. Within a few years, more than 400 repair cafés have become part of the worldwide network of Repair Cafe Foundation. Please visit the following link for a 2-minute Canadian Press video on Toronto’s Repair Café that our sustainability coordinator launched as a volunteer initiative in May, 2013.

On Thursday, April 10, as part of its Mission Zero sustainability campaign, Sheridan will hold its first Repair Café, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at SCAET, Trafalgar campus

To join our team of fixers, please contact Wai Chu Cheng, Sustainability Coordinator, Office for Sustainability, at waichu.cheng@sheridancollege.ca

For more info on the Repair Café movement, please visit www.repaircafetoronto.ca.

After 34 years of a long and varied career at Sheridan, Libby Simpson is retiring on March 31, 2014.

Libby began her career at Sheridan in 1979 as a child care worker and placement supervisor for the ECE program at the Trafalgar Campus Day Care Centre and is known to many staff as their child’s teacher. Libby also taught ECE courses in preschool curriculum (literacy, art, music and movement) for Continuing Education.

Libby was also an active member of OPSEU Local 245 for over 20 years and served as Steward, Treasurer, Secretary and Vice-President. Her involvement with OPSEU led to various committee appointments which included the Employment Equity Committee, the Provincial Employee-Employer Relations Committee, the Post-Secondary Anti-Harassment and Discrimination Committee, OPSEU Provincial Women’s Committee and the Ontario Child Care Coalition. Libby was also a participant in the United Way campaigns, and member and co-chair of Health and Safety at Sheridan. Her passion for equity led to working with others to develop Sheridan’s Peace Gardens, now the venue for the annual event commemorating the Montreal Massacre.

Over the last ten years, Libby has enjoyed working as a Records Specialist with the Office of the Registrar at STC. She is known to staff, faculty and students as caring, compassionate and always willing to help.

Please join the Office of the Registrar staff in wishing Libby all the best as she embarks on this new chapter of her life.

I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dayo Kefentse to the position of Communications and Government Relations Officer, effective March 24. We are delighted to have Dayo join our team.

Dayo began her career in journalism, most notably as an on-air reporter/editor and associate producer in both Toronto and Windsor for CBC Radio and Television. She contributed reports and features to a variety of local and national shows including Metro Morning, Here & Now, World Report and the CBC News at 6. She left the CBC after 9 years in 2008 to work on publicizing new and exciting initiatives in the Greater Toronto Area.

Dayo most recently managed her own media and communications company, providing services to a variety of clients in the areas of media relations, communications, community outreach, government relations and strategic planning. She has worked as the Manager of News Services at the University of Windsor, and has also served as press secretary to Ontario’s Minister of Education in 2009.

In her new role at Sheridan, Dayo will be an integral member of the communications team, with a specialized focus on government relations in support of the Sheridan Journey.

Please join me in welcoming Dayo to Sheridan.

Christine Szustaczek
Director, Communications & External Relations

Dear members of the Sheridan community,

After 34 years of dedicated service, JoAnn Brodey is retiring from Sheridan to embark on a new adventure. JoAnn has had a positive impact on many Sheridan students, faculty members and administrators.  Her list of coordinator roles is extensive, in fact likely unprecedented at Sheridan, starting in the Language Development Centre and spanning through to the General Education portfolio.  As a long-term member of TC3 and OLIC (Open Learning Implementation Committee) JoAnn’s passion for, and practice of, e-learning development and on-line teaching has inspired so many of her faculty colleagues and students alike.  We look forward to celebrating this important milestone with JoAnn.  If you are able to attend the for tea and cake, please RSVP with jessica.hinchliffe@sheridancollege.ca

Date: April 11, 2014

Time: 2:00pm – 4:00 pm

Place: The Trafalgar Library Atrium – C Wing

Sandy McKean will be retiring from Sheridan as of June 27, 2014. It is difficult to pinpoint how we will miss him most, since Sandy wore so many hats and leaves big shoes to fill. His own shoes are always seen in motion around Sheridan, as he works with all of his various teams: leading the Sheridan Production House, leading his faculty in the Department of Film, TV and Journalism, liaising with the folks at SIRT, developing new programs and curricula, and poising to launch the new Bachelor of Film & TV degree for Fall 2014 that he spent the last few years developing.

Sandy’s multifarious career at Sheridan was launched full-time in 2006 when he retired as Director of Administration and Staff Development at CBC and took up his role as Associate Dean of Film, TV and Journalism in the Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. Prior to that he had a longstanding association with Sheridan as a member of our Professional Advisory Committees.

We wish Sandy the very best. He will be deeply missed.

Curiosities is the official blog of Sheridan. Why Curiosities? Because we’re deeply interested in looking at education, our communities, our people — and their thought provoking ideas — through a kaleidoscope of different perspectives. On the blog, you’ll find all things creative, intriguing and noteworthy about the Sheridan community, from people to projects, and from the profound to the peculiar.

Take a look at a few of the posts currently up on the blog:

The personal path to success

Turn serendipity into opportunity

A new semester begins

A lifelong passion for learning

Why stories matter

Reflections on a trip to India

Reflections on curiosity

We are looking to feature faculty and staff who have helped a student be successful or helped contribute to the life and environment at Sheridan.

If you are interested in being featured on the blog or to nominate someone to be featured, please send an email to curiosities@sheridancollege.ca with answers to the questions below:

• What is the most rewarding part of your work at Sheridan?
• Is there anything that you are passionate about outside of work, which helps to inspire you or that contributes to your work at Sheridan?
• How does your role at Sheridan link to any of our values: academic excellence; creativity and innovation; or global citizenship?
• How does your role at Sheridan fit with any of the new brand pillars:  curious, purposeful, smart, gutsy, inspired, and real?
• What is your favourite memory with respect to your time at Sheridan?
• What is the one thing that you want everyone to know about Sheridan College?

We will try to review the entry within a week. We will contact you directly if we need more details to flush out your story.  We will also be in touch to gain your final permission should we be able to turn your submission into a posting that fits the purpose and intent of the Curiosities blog.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The Communications Team

Michael Kennedy, a directing teacher in Media Arts, has been nominated for a 2014 Mississauga Arts Award (a “Marty”).

He has been nominated under the category of Media Arts, Established Artist.

Here is a link to information on the nominees:

http://www.mississaugaartscouncil.com/martys/2014-nominees-final/

Here is a link to vote for Michael Kennedy:

http://www.mississaugaartscouncil.com/martys/2014-peoples-choice/?msg=ok

CONGRATULATIONS MICHAEL!

We need you to be a ‘client’ at our next Creative Problem Solving Workshop. Workshop participants will apply their new-found skills in a facilitated environment and you will reap the benefit!

WHAT kinds of challenges will be considered? Anything and everything that relates to the academic and/or operational environment at Sheridan, and beyond!

Click on the link for more information about being a client: Creative Problem Solving – Clients Needed!

Do you have an idea or innovation for teaching and learning that you want to share with your colleagues?  Are you doing something in your classroom that you think could enhance the work of other professors? Consider offering a workshop during Faculty Development’s brand new Spring & Summer Series. Click here for more information and to access the Call for Proposals document.

Interested in registering for the Spring & Summer Series workshops? PD Place, an exciting new registration system for Faculty Development offerings is launching soon! See the next edition of the Sheridan Insider for more information.

After many years at Sheridan Andrew Bodor will be retiring on June 30. During his tenure at Sheridan, he has held the position of Coordinator for Animation, Art Fundamentals and Visual & Creative Arts while teaching in all these programs. He is looking forward to getting back to painting and exploring new creative avenues yet to be determined.

FAAD and the Visual & Creative Arts faculty invite you to attend a reception to acknowledge his contribution over the past 12-16 years (no one really knows exactly how long).

The Coffee Loft (above the Marquee)

Tuesday April 22

12-2 p.m.

Come for a light lunch, some bubbly, a wolf howl and you can only imagine what else is in store to say goodbye to Andrew.

Please don’t mention this to him. He doesn’t want to know anything about these plans.

See you there,

Heather Whitton

I am sorry to announce that Susan Wright, my Executive Assistant, will be retiring on August 15 after 33 years at Sheridan.  Susan has been an invaluable member of my team since I joined Sheridan in February 2010.  She has always been unfailingly professional, courteous and good-natured in her dealings with members of our community and external stakeholders.

Susan brought a wealth of institutional knowledge and insight to her role, having first joined Sheridan in 1981 as a support staff member in the arts faculty.  She joined the President’s Office in 1997, and has supported three consecutive presidents over the past 17 years.

I know that Susan will be greatly missed, not only by myself but by her many colleagues and friends at Sheridan.  She has requested that we not hold a farewell reception in her honour, but please take the time over the next few months to wish her happiness and good health in her retirement.

Jeff Zabudsky

It is with mixed emotions that after 28 years at Sheridan, Carol Goodrow has decided to retire on June 30, 2014 to devote more time to family, community, learning and of course, music! Carol came to Sheridan in 1986 to teach courses in two programs while counselling part time.  She then joined faculty as a full time Counsellor in 1989.  Over the course of her career at Sheridan, Carol has contributed her talents in so many unique and wonderful ways, including:

• 14 years as a Peer Mentor Supervisor creating educational programming & events;
• 9 years on Sheridan’s Human Rights Adviser team assisting students & employees;
• 7 years as the Counsellor affiliated with Animation, Arts and Design programs;
• Utilizing her training as a Mediator to help others resolve conflict at early stages;
• Working on many Sheridan committees; and
• 6 years on the Executive of the Ontario College Counsellors group.

Carol is well known for her skill in helping students and employees with respectful approaches to solving problems, addressing relationship issues, improving health and achieving goals. She has fostered a collaborative work environment and developed strong collegial relationships across multiple programs and services. Most importantly, she has worked with literally thousands of students, helping them to achieve success at Sheridan!

We will be planning a get together to celebrate the beginning of Carol’s new journey with details to be announced shortly. I wish Carol all the best as she moves on to the next phase of her life, and thank her for everything she has contributed to Sheridan. You will be missed!

Darrell Keezer, Sheridan Alumnus – Business Administration Marketing 2005 and President, Candybox Marketing is slated to be inducted into the Sheridan Faculty of Business Hall of Fame at the annual Business Academic Awards Celebration held this spring.

Click here to read the full article in Briefly Speaking Biz.

Click here to read about transitions in Sheridan’s Faculty of Business.

With the passing of Doug Waechter in February 2014,  we have lost one of the founding members and significant contributors to the School of Applied Computing.  To celebrate Doug’s life and contribution to Sheridan, please join us for a time of fellowship and memory to dedicate the planting of a tree and a plaque in commemoration of Doug.

MEMORIAL DETAILS:

DATE:    Thursday, May 22

TIME:    1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

CAMPUS:    Davis/Brampton

LOCATION:    The Den, Student Centre