Welcome to Winter, 2024!

Dear Colleagues, Open House is one of my favourite events of the year. It’s an opportunity for me to unabashedly laud our Faculty’s achievements and unique offerings from a list that gets longer every semester. In turn, prospective… Read More

Professor Peter Grevstad Hosts Sheridan’s Inaugural Pride Reads!

By Peter Grevstad In 2022 I completed a doctorate with the University of Toronto. My work focuses on the school experiences of LGBTQ+ students in a community college. Part of what I did was an environmental scan for… Read More

Virtual Reality has arrived to the Pre-Health program!

By Tara Hayes In the spring of 2022, Sheridan applied for a College Equipment and Renewal Fund (CERF) from the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities and in the fall of 2022, it was announced that Sheridan was… Read More

LAC CONVENES NEW FACULTY WORKING GROUPS  

FHASS’s LAC (Local Academic Council) during the 2023/2024 academic year introduced three new faculty working groups, with the long-term goal of encouraging faculty involvement across the FHASS community.    In the absence of a faculty senate, the mission of the reimagined LAC… Read More

Kate Cayley and Alex McLean bring The Archive of Missing Things to Sheridan

This Winter, Sheridan Writer-in-Residence Kate Cayley brought Alex McLean from Halifax’s Zuppa Theatre company to Sheridan to discuss the intersection of games and theatre with our CW&P students. First year degree students in the program’s Narrative and New… Read More

Fourth-year CW&P Students Collaborate with Universidad de Sonora, Mexico

This semester in Glenn Clifton’s fourth-year Creative Writing Pedagogy class, senior students in the CW&P degree developed a COIL collaboration with first-year students at Universidad de Sonora in Mexico. As the students at Universidad de Sonora are aspiring… Read More

Mahak Jain publishes The Only Astronaut

Professor Mahak Jain (FHASS, CW&P) has published her third book for children, The Only Astronaut, with Kids Can Press. The book is illustrated by Andrea Stegmaier and has also been translated to Portuguese (Brazil) and German. The Only Astronaut is… Read More

FHASS Welcomes Nicolette Little!

Nicolette Little researches and writes about media, feminist mediated activism, and gender-based violence, and is also a children’s author (A Toot in the Tub, 2018; Khloe’s Kooky Hair Day, forthcoming). She loves teaching, and is happy to be… Read More

FHASS Welcomes Paula Ogg!

Paula Ogg has been a professor at Sheridan since 2011 consulting on curriculum design and development, teaching and learning, and instructional design and technology as well as teaching in EASL, COMM, and TESOL Plus classes. Paula has certification… Read More

Alia Somani Takes New Role as GenEd Coordinator

By Alia Somani In January of 2024, I took on the role of Programme Coordinator of General Education. In addition to teaching, which I love, this role enables me to engage with the broader Sheridan community. It involves… Read More