Pulling Together In The Same Direction
By Anna Bartosik *Sheridan sits on the Territorial Lands of the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation. Paula Laing, Student Success and Transition Advisor from Sheridan’s Aboriginal Initiatives Office, creates a lasting impression with those who meet… Read More
Sheridan Knowledge Mobilization – Collaboration in the Child & Youth Sector*
By Kirsten Madsen and Janet Shuh In partnership with Peel Region’s Child and Youth Initiative, Sheridan’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office for Undergraduate Research hosted an inaugural Community Research Café on April 17, 2015… Read More
FHASS Partners Up With CCAH
By Sean McNabney Winter 2015 marked the launch of an exciting and fruitful partnership between The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHASS) and the Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton (CCAH). The CCAH is an organization whose pillars… Read More
FHASS Launches Sheridan Reads
By Owen Percy As you surely know by now, FHASS launched its first contribution to Sheridan’s Creative Campus initiative, Sheridan Reads, in January of 2015. Conceived of as an ‘extended reading event’ designed to draw on FHASS’s expertise… Read More
FHASS Launches Film For Thought Screening Series
By Peter Steven Film for Thought, a new film series initiated by FHASS, got underway on February 17th with the screening of Selwyn Jacob’s The Road Taken. The event was co-sponsored by the Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton… Read More
Using Twitter in Your Course: Having the education come to the students and not the other way around
By Derrick Millard A while ago in one of my online courses something unique happened. We started to get outside community involvement directly into the course. This is something I had always thought about but had never known… Read More
Sheridan Students Showcase Public History Posters during Black History Month
By Christian Knudsen On February 5th, Sheridan students taking the general education elective HIST19936G, Canada in the Making: Exploring Canadian History, showcased public history posters they designed as part of their course work at the opening night of… Read More
Coincidence, Connection, Convocation, and Collaboration
by Professors Sara Cumming (Sociology) and Jessica Pulis (Criminology) “We don’t meet people by accident, they’re meant to cross our path for a reason” It was September 2001 in a small seminar room at Brock University that two of… Read More
Constrain, Apply, and Release
by Lukasz Kurowski, Professor of Philosophy and Social Sciences Over the past few years I have noticed that in the age of social media and the world of Google our students appear to have lost specific analytical abilities… Read More
Creativity… with friends like these
by Michael J. McNamara, Professor of Creativity and Creative Thinking Who amongst us hasn’t enjoyed a little good-natured ribbing at the hands of friends and family members? Having spent the vast majority of my adult life in the… Read More
