Furniture students’ work a perfect fit for Toronto YMCA
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MEHREEN SHAHID What is a way of gauging a student’s learning? Exams are one, but the bachelor of Craft and Design (Furniture) program at Sheridan tests students’ learning by putting them to work. For many years, the program has required a capstone project to be completed by all final-year students. Graduating […]
Furniture students build across continents with Finnish furniture maker Nikari
STORY AND PHOTO BY MEHREEN SHAHID FURNITURE PHOTOS COURTESY OF PETER FLEMING Having the highest GPA in class can bring a student prestige, but it can also bring them added work and responsibility. The top five final-year students from the Bachelor of Craft and Design (Furniture) program at Sheridan are participating in an international project […]
Accessibility around Trafalgar campus assessed by Interior Design students
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MEHREEN SHAHID For a decade, he has sought solutions to accessibility issues around Sheridan. Finally all his requests and protests are now being heard one-by-one. Peter Biec started as a student of Journalism–Print, then took some continuing education courses and is now a student of the Advertising, Marketing and Communications program. […]
Media Arts student prepares to take the stage for the Miss World Canada 2014
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID PHOTOS BY SAM TASKIE Kristin Kamila Bingham still remembers the day her grade-school friends rated all the girls in their class on their appearance: everyone else got an 8, 9 or 10, she got a 3. But when the director of the Miss Canada World 2014 pageant gave the 22-year-old Jamaican-born […]
Japanese students visit Sheridan for a two-week long exchange program
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MEHREEN SHAHID Eight Sheridan students will be taking part in a cultural exchange between the college and the Osaka Electro-Communications University this May. “This is currently an in-house program and we’re looking for someone to adopt it to keep it going,” said Michael Jones, coordinator of the Communications Culture Information and […]
Sheridan Tackles Problems Creatively
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MEHREEN SHAHID The Sheridan community may soon be bidding farewell to Access Sheridan, as the college implements a whole new interface emphasizing the “Get Creative” brand. The move was just one of several outcomes of a college-wide creative problem-solving workshop held at the Hazel McCallion Campus Feb. 26 to 28 aimed at […]
Japanese exchange students visit Sheridan college
BY MEHREEN SHAHID Exchange students from Osaka Electro-Communication University (OECU) have been at Sheridan College for the last two weeks. Sheridan is the only college in North America that the OECU has an exchange program with. This is the third such group that has visited the college. Students in the contingent were from the Digital […]