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1,710 NUMBER OF STUDENTS INVOLVED IN RESEARCH $212.3M 1 Approximate amount added in income to the Halton and Peel regions due to 1ST IN CANADA AMONG Sheridan’s day-to-day operations COLLEGES FOR THE NUMBER OF TOTAL RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED (225) 00,000 and Peel regions by Sheridan and its students

298+ % NUMBER OF 20 ORGANIZATIONS of Sheridan’s full-time faculty members engaged in scholarship, SUPPORTED THROUGH research and creative activities, helping to capture and disseminate RESEARCH PROJECTS knowledge and allow innovation and creativity to fl ourish

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Thank you for being part of our community

In compiling Sheridan’s many good news stories for this edition of the President’s Report, we quickly noticed that a pattern emerged. Many of our proudest accomplishments from the past year have centred around one theme: community. Like any postsecondary institution, we belong to a number of communities. There’s our vibrant on-campus community of students, faculty and staff. There’s the broader communities in which those campuses exist: Oakville, Brampton and Mississauga. There’s our thriving alumni community, which numbers over 148,000 strong. There’s our community of industry partners, donors and advisers, and our postsecondary peers locally, nationally and internationally. The stories in the pages that follow showcase some of the many ways we’ve had an impact in our communities over the past year. Read on to discover how we’re designing a school for a First Nations community, removing the barriers to postsecondary education for underprivileged individuals, enhancing our campus environments, supporting international events, and sharing our advanced technology and know-how with our local communities. While the stories vary dramatically, each one showcases the power of collective ideas, collaboration, unity and belonging — all the important elements of community. Through the extraordinary participation of so many caring members of our community, we’ve bolstered our reputation as Canada’s Creative Campus and one of Canada’s leading postsecondary institutions. I hope this report inspires your continued interest and invaluable support of Sheridan.

Sincerely,

Jeff Zabudsky, PhD President and Vice Chancellor, Sheridan College

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Creative In review construction PAGE 06 It’s a momentous time at Sheridan. Here, we look back at some of the recent highlights and milestones over the past year.

Sheridan graduates also worked the presence-sensing floor The event features a conversation JANUARY on The Lego Movie and The Book located at Holland Bloorview with director of stage, opera and  Lawrence Hill, author of of Life, the additional two films Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. The film Atom Egoyan and Matthew international best-selling and nominated in the best animated winning students’ game, Kyube, Jocelyn, artistic and general award-winning novel The Book feature category. engages children and families in an director of Canadian Stage. of Negroes, comes to campus inclusive activity that can be played to launch ‘Sheridan Reads,’ part by children of all abilities while they of Sheridan’s Creative Campus FEBRUARY wait for their appointments. APRIL initiative. Hill gives a lecture in  Posters by Sheridan students  Sheridan earns a ‘Silver’ STARS which he shares his thoughts are showcased at the opening  For the third consecutive rating from the Association for on writing and nurturing the night of the Black History Month year, two Sheridan students the Advancement of Sustainability creative impulse. kick-off celebration by the are recognized as outstanding in Higher Education (AASHE). Canadian Caribbean Association co-op students. Business Sheridan’s accomplishment  How to Train Your Dragon 2, of Halton (CCAH). The posters, Administration — Finance student reflects a significant improvement written and directed by Sheridan which celebrate Canadian Black Ali Zaheer is selected as Co-op in energy efficiency, waste diverted alumnus Dean DeBlois wins the History, are later displayed at the Student of the Year by Education per campus user, and data tracking. Golden Globe Award for Best Oakville Museum. at Work Ontario. Software Animated Feature. Development and Network  A team of first-year students  At the Academy Awards, Sheridan Engineering student Richard from Sheridan’s Mobile Computing dominates in the Best Animated Chavez receives an Honourable degree program wins first place in Building Feature category. Three of the five Mention from the Canadian Microsoft’s UX (User Experience) KI high nominated films were directed Association for Co-op Education. Challenge in the Innovation Path by Sheridan alumni: The Boxtrolls of the Imagine Cup. PAGE 16 (director Graham Annable); How to  Ken Dryden — author, politician, Train Your Dragon 2 (director Dean educator, lawyer and hockey hero DeBlois); and Big Hero 6 (director — spends two days at Sheridan, MAY Chris Williams). Williams takes sharing experiences that reinforce  A team of Sheridan Paralegal home the Oscar. the idea that community matters. students wins Ontario’s Mock Dryden’s visit is part of the Trial cup, beating out their peers Community Builder Series, a year- from six similar programs at public MARCH long sequence of events, speakers colleges across Ontario.  Sixteen Sheridan graduates take and documentary screenings with home Canadian Screen Awards, a focus on building better and  For the second straight year, which celebrate homegrown talent healthier communities. Sheridan sponsors the Punjabi in front of the camera and behind International Film Festival (PIFF), the scenes in film, television and  As part of its Creative Campus which takes place in Brampton, digital media. Series, Sheridan partners with Mississauga, Oakville, Toronto, and the Toronto International Film Richmond Hill. Sheridan hosts two  For their ‘Sprint Week’ Festival (TIFF) for ‘Stage & Screen’: screenings of films celebrating the competition, Game Design a discussion examining the themes of Punjabi and Southeast students are challenged to design intersection of theatre and film at Asian cultures and identities. interactive games for ‘ScreenPlay’, the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.

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Education NOVEMBER JUNE transformation  Sheridan alumnus and  Sheridan Apprenticeship children’s book author and program grads win an PAGE 10 illustrator Jon Klassen wins a unprecedented four medals at the Premier’s Award in the Creative 26th annual Ontario Technological Arts and Design category. A 2005 Skills Competition. Three alumni graduate of Sheridan’s Classical sweep the Precision Machining Animation program, Klassen has competition, winning Gold, Silver sold over a million copies of his and Bronze in the category. An books worldwide. additional Gold medal is earned in the Computer Numerical  Environmental advocate, Control (CNC) competition. award-winning geneticist, science broadcaster and academic David  The groundbreaking production Suzuki delivers a keynote address at of Brantwood, produced by Sheridan’s Trafalgar Road Campus, Sheridan’s Canadian Music Theatre encouraging an audience of 300 Project (CMTP), is recognized with Sheridan community members an Audience Choice Award at the to get involved in environmental 2015 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, initiatives and make a difference. celebrating excellence in Toronto’s performing arts. DECEMBER  Sheridan comes in at number  Sheridan’s annual United 11 on the CG Student Awards’ list makes hockey more accessible for Way campaign concludes. The of the top 20 schools in the world AUGUST players with vision loss. Sheridan community raises $40K for visual effects, animation, and  The Sheridan iCent app, which for the United Way, which assists game design. helps international students individuals to become resilient acclimatize, reaches 1,000 SEPTEMBER people, strengthens families and downloads. The app, co-created  Sheridan alumnus Matthew Fabb creates vibrant neighbourhoods JULY by staff in Sheridan’s International takes home an Emmy Award. Fabb and communities.  Students from the Shanghai Centre and a former international is a member of the award-winning Theatre Academy and Sheridan student, guides incoming team that made I Lost My Head  Holiday ‘Mitten Trees’ are erected bring down the house in a concert students through every step of in Sleepy Hollow, the first virtual on each of Sheridan’s campuses. celebrating the universal language the process, from application to reality project to win an Emmy. The Sheridan community donates of music theatre. The cabaret arrival and beyond. 114 pairs of mittens, six scarves, concert is part of an international  In the spirit of feeling good by and 70 hats, ensuring that children exchange that saw five students  Two Sheridan students win first giving back, Sheridan employees and adults in need are protected from Shanghai join five Sheridan place in the best re-engineered work with Burlington, Ont.-based from the elements during the students to share their passion product category at the worldwide charity Sew on Fire to create 1,000 holiday season and beyond. for learning and performing. IAM3D challenge in Boston. Their care packages for children in need creation, an audible hockey puck, by stuffing backpacks with school supplies and treats. Game to Creative campus, contribute OCTOBER extended  As part of the Creative Campus PAGE 18 series, award-winning musician, PAGE 20 entrepreneur and author David Usher visits Sheridan to speak about the creative process. Usher says he believes that everyone has the capacity to be creative.

 Four-time Olympian Silken Laumann delivers the keynote address at Sheridan’s annual Showcase of Teaching and Learning. Laumann encourages the Sheridan community to “absorb the learning that’s possible.”

 Matthew Murnaghan/Canadian Paralympic Committee

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Creative construction With the construction of innovative new buildings — and creative enhancements to existing ones — Sheridan continues to walk the talk as Canada’s Creative Campus.

 Sheridan’s Hazel McCallion Campus expands with a state-of-the-art new building.

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The vision of the project is one we got excited about from the very start. The fact that creativity is part of Sheridan’s identity is inspiring. It signals a sincere interest in adopting a unique approach.

As Canada’s Creative Campus, Sheridan has and sharing of equipment and resources that committed to embedding purposeful creativity will benefit students in both the trades and our into every part of the campus experience, engineering programs,” said Dr. Iain McNab, Dean from our programming, to our teaching, to our of the Faculty of Applied Science and Technology. facilities — and our two newest buildings in Architect George Friedman hopes that the Brampton and Mississauga are no exception. building’s open design will also foster broader Sheridan’s $67.3 million Hazel McCallion community engagement, as visitors will have Campus expansion broke ground in late 2014, and clear views into the workshops from above, has been changing the skyline of Mississauga and be able to see all of the building systems throughout 2015. The 220,000-square-foot, state- that are left exposed, including structure, of-the-art building, made possible by the Province mechanical ducts, plumbing, electrical conduit of Ontario, the City of Mississauga and private and IT cabling. donors, was designed with Sheridan’s creative “The design echoes what will be going on mandate in mind. inside it – it’s a ‘tough’ building,” says Friedman. “The vision of the project is one we got “The design hearkens back to the factories of excited about from the very start,” says the industrial revolution, in which structures architect Daniel Teramura, whose firm were exposed and formed the architectural Moriyama & Teshima Architects is one of two expression, while also meeting modern firms collaborating on the design. “The fact sustainability requirements.” that creativity is part of Sheridan’s identity These sustainability requirements are is inspiring. It signals a sincere interest in vital to Sheridan’s Mission Zero plan — and adopting a unique approach.” have been fully integrated into the design of That unique approach is reflected in the both new buildings in a manner befitting a building’s many features — 57 classrooms, Creative Campus. including labs, studios and production facilities; The Davis facility will house an Energy Centre meeting rooms; a Senate Chamber — and is that will enable Sheridan to introduce district emphasized in the Creativity Commons at the heating and cooling networks that generate heart of the facility. electricity and allow for more efficient heating “The Creativity Commons was designed to and cooling across multiple buildings on campus. reflect Sheridan’s commitment to the Creative The Centre will have a dual purpose role, Campus by permeating the core of the building. serving as a living lab while helping Sheridan It isn’t one isolated space, but a series of reach its Mission Zero plan — the institution’s connected spaces occupying each floor,” says commitment to decrease energy consumption Dr. Yael Katz, Dean of Sheridan’s new Institute by 50% and carbon emissions by 60% by 2020. for Creativity and Creative Campus, which The Mississauga expansion will also will also be headquartered in the expanded support Mission Zero. It achieves efficiency Mississauga campus. “The Commons is really through a smart system that automates and meant to encourage informal encounters and controls energy use. Add to that the strategic cross-disciplinary collisions. It’s a space for placement of windows, a mechanical system community, contemplation and collaboration.” that features on-demand ventilation, heat The Davis expansion was also designed recovery and chilled beams, as well as energy- with collaboration in mind. The opening of efficient LED lighting and the use of solar  the new 130,000-square-foot building in 2017 energy to partially heat water, and you’ve got The new Hazel McCallion Campus will ultimately see the relocation of students a building that will consume roughly half of is currently under construction and currently enrolled in trades and apprenticeship what’s used by most commercial buildings of will welcome its first students in programs at the stand-alone Skills Training comparable size in Canada. September 2016. Centre in Oakville, allowing them to become “If Sheridan is to be known for its creativity and more fully integrated into the campus innovation — and for sustainable practices — our  community. It will foster collaboration with physical spaces need to reflect our leadership in The new building at Davis in Brampton other program areas, particularly Sheridan’s those areas,” says Dr. Jeff Zabudsky, Sheridan’s will open in September 2017. engineering programs, which will be housed in President and Vice Chancellor. “Our new an adjacent and connected building. buildings do just that. We can’t wait to see these  “The new space will open up opportunities for state-of-the-art facilities take form, and to invite Sheridan’s Mississauga campus is collaboration, movement between credentials, our community to visit them.” (S) home to the Pilon School of Business.

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Creative Campus enhancements

TEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY, OAKVILLE Now in its fourth year, Temporary Contemporary is a competition that invites high profile artists to bring their original public art installations to Sheridan’s campuses. “Sheridan’s students, faculty and staff are able to connect with the broader art community and the artist’s work inspires unique opportunities for curriculum integration,” said Ronni Rosenberg, Dean of Sheridan’s Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design. Last year’s installation by artist Jon Sasaki was “A Clock Set to 24 Hours Into the Future”; this year, the time theme will continue with a piece consisting of 720 analog wristwatches. Members of the community are invited to come and experience this year’s installation, which is on display in the B-Wing of Oakville’s Trafalgar Road Campus.

DAVIS MURAL, BRAMPTON Sheridan’s Brampton campus is also getting some creative enhancement. An interdisciplinary team of students from craft and design and illustration is working with PLANT Architects to design a two-storey mural for a glass-enclosed stairwell in the Dr. Rob Turner Building at the Davis Campus. The mural embodies the values of the Faculty of Applied Health and Community Studies, while reducing the building’s solar heat gain and energy consumption.

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Education transformation Sheridan is proud to team up with a number of partners on two initiatives designed to remove the barriers to postsecondary education — and make a difference in underprivileged communities.

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 Sheridan is proud to partner with Homeward Bound Halton, which provides precariously-housed One of the most powerful things we’ve observed is single mothers with educational opportunities that would how transformative this program can be. Women otherwise be out of reach. will enter the program, and it’s evident — from  During their visit to Sheridan, their body language — how they’re thinking about kids from Toronto’s Urban Squash themselves. They lack confidence. They almost program got hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies like want to melt into the background and be invisible. 3D printing and robotics. Their self-esteem has taken a bit of a battering because of what they’ve been through.

With two innovative new programs, Sheridan and its partners are seeing first-hand how powerful access to postsecondary education can be. Bring underprivileged communities to campus, and something remarkable starts to happen. “One of the most powerful things we’ve observed is how transformative this program can be,” says Michelle Pommells, President and CEO of Home Suite Hope, which oversees the first initiative, called Homeward Bound Halton. “Women will enter the program, and it’s evident — from their body language, how they present themselves — how they’re thinking about themselves. They lack confidence. They almost want to melt into the background and be invisible. Their self-esteem has taken a bit of a battering because of what they’ve been through.” The women are low-income, precariously housed single mothers who require support to stabilize their lives and break the cycle of poverty. Enter the Homeward Bound Halton program, made possible by a community partnership between Home Suite Hope, Halton Region, Oakville Community Foundation and Sheridan. Based on a long-standing, highly successful WoodGreen Community Services program in Toronto, Homeward Bound Halton provides affordable housing, free child care, and fully-funded educational opportunities to program participants. In other words, the program helps remove many of the barriers to postsecondary education. The result? “As the days, weeks, months pass, they begin to transform. Blossom. They start to use their voice. They’ve always had a voice, but they begin to express opinions with new confidence. They become hopeful of the future. They begin working to build a future that looks so much more promising than anything they’ve experienced before. We see that transformation actually happening before our eyes,” says Pommells.

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This program is an excellent example of what is possible when partners come together and get creative to tackle a complex issue such as poverty.

Sheridan’s President and Vice Chancellor, children transformed by access to educational Dr. Jeff Zabudsky, says he’s proud of the role opportunities. Founded in 2010, Urban the institution is playing in this transformation. Squash Toronto strives to ensure the future “Thanks to the contributions of our partners, the success of underserved youth in Toronto’s participants can spend less time worrying about Jane and Finch neighbourhood. In July 2014, how to pay for their education and support their Sheridan partnered with Urban Squash to families, and more time gaining knowledge in bring 21 students to its campus for a one-week their subject areas and the invaluable hands-on residential program that involved participants experience that employers demand. This program in novel, hands-on learning opportunities. In is an excellent example of what is possible when July 2015, another 21 students participated, partners come together and get creative to tackle together with 15 others returning from 2014 a complex issue such as poverty.” for a more in-depth experience. Participants had the opportunity to choose “When we begin working with the students from 18 Sheridan programs, which were short- and we ask them what they want to be, they listed for their potential to help the students all give the same answers — you know, doctor, change their economic reality. The students’ lawyer, teacher, the jobs that kids know of,” tuition is fully paid for by Homeward Bound Ruparell says. “But through our program with Halton’s donors; Sheridan provides them with Sheridan, our students were able to experience laptop computers and delivers the educational all the other terrific options that are out there. programming and any academic upgrading They see that they can build a computer game, required before studies commence. Equally that that can be their job. That they can draw, as important, the Homeward Bound Halton or work with glass or pottery or fabric. It’s Industry Council and Sheridan will provide been really eye-opening for our kids, and that’s participants with support finding internships really our mandate, to help kids pursue the and ongoing employment. postsecondary pathway of their choice.” Pommells says the benefits of the program Ruparell says the program has been extend to participants’ children. “We see transformative for the students she works children who have had to see their parents go with, many of whom have never been away through the stress that living in poverty will from home before. She points to one student bring. Behavioural issues often develop as a in particular. result. But through the course of this program “One of our students, Eryka, attended last year we’re seeing the children doing so much better. for the first time. She was very shy, reserved. She Watching their parent invest so much time always had her nose in a book. For the Sheridan and energy in the future of the family, it rubs program, we paired her with a girl who’s a bit off on these children. They develop a greater more confident. They shared a room in residence,  interest in education themselves. They see the and both of them just flourished. Eryka really Residencies like the ones connection between hard work and promise came out of her shell. The confidence boost she offered to Urban Squash Toronto and opportunity, and that has a transformative got from being at Sheridan — trying new things, enable youth to explore their effect on them too.” making new friends — it made such a difference, postsecondary education options. Shivani Ruparell, Executive Director of and has continued to have a huge impact in Urban Squash Toronto, has also witnessed Eryka’s life.” (S)

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Sheridan insights Think all colleges are alike? From our small class sizes to our youthful alumni and booming 1:43 international student population, you may be in RATIO OF FULL-TIME for a surprise. Taken together, we’re a dynamic FACULTY TO FULL-TIME and growing community that celebrates STUDENTS creativity, innovation, learning and discovery.

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AVERAGE AGE OF OUR Number of AVERAGE AGE OF OUR FULL-TIME STUDENTS international countries PART-TIME STUDENTS represented by our student population

  24.52% increase in 24% OF STUDENTS COME 60% of 4th year degree international enrolment from students participated in fall 2014 (3,430 students) to HERE WITH A UNIVERSITY courses with a community- fall 2015 (4,271 students) DEGREE ALREADY based project

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88% 74 % Graduate employment of full-time faculty rate for degree programs have graduate degrees (99 PhDs and 295 master’s) 11,000 # of alumni with more than one credential

90% % 52 vs. 48 of 4th year degree 58 PERCENTAGE OF students participated in courses with internship of alumni graduated FEMALE TO MALE field experience in 2000 or later STUDENTS

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 Sheridan Professor Michael Muller’s visit to KI inspired him to engage his students in the project. Building  Plans and models of Muller’s KI high students’ ideas for KI. Sheridan students and faculty get creative to bring high school education to a remote Ontario community.

Six hundred kilometres north of issued an open invitation to other information I brought back and its life. Straw bale is also fire Thunder Bay, Ontario, there’s Canadians: come experience used Google Earth images of the resistant. It is easy to build with a tiny Aboriginal community life on a remote reserve. Muller school to come up with designs.” and easy to move around.” called Kitchenuhmaykoosib and his wife were among the 30 Second-year Architectural Because KI is only accessible Inninuwug, or KI. people who took up the invitation. Technology student Vinny by land for three months a year, It’s remote — so remote that The KI he describes is beautiful, Loução, who’s also president of transporting and erecting a the community’s school-age welcoming — and troubled. The the Architectural Club at Sheridan, building on this remote site is youth, which account for 30% community faces a number of was keen to accept the challenge. difficult. Portable structures will of its population, are forced to social issues, many of them related “We did some research into the be used instead. The proposed leave their homes and families to the painful legacy of residential background of KI,” he says. “We six rooms will be constructed in to attend high school in Thunder schools. But Muller was clear on had to consider the weather and Ontario, then taken apart, loaded Bay. Attending school beyond what role he was there to play. snow. They can get three feet of on trucks, and transported to KI, Grade 10 is so inaccessible “They don’t need outsiders snow on the roof and temperatures where they’ll be reassembled. that many of the community’s coming in trying to help. You as low as -50C without wind The next step for the project is students never finish high school. don’t help. You provide support chill. We had to come up with a to seek approval from the people “They don’t want to leave,” and assistance,” says Muller. “We structure that could withstand of KI. “It is their home, their [First] says Michael Muller, professor asked them how we could be of those severe conditions.” Nation. It is up to them as to how, in Sheridan’s Architectural assistance to them, and the thing Other factors to consider with or even whether, they use any Technology program. “This is their the community wanted most such extreme weather conditions expertise we offer,” says Muller. home, and they love it. They’re was for their youth to be able to include digging deeper to lay If the community approves the proud of where they come from, graduate from high school.” foundations, doubling insulation students’ design, and sufficient and it’s where they want to be.” When Muller returned to as well as using a different funds are raised, construction So Muller and his students Sheridan that fall, he invited kind of material to ensure the and installation could begin the are making it easier for KI’s his students to join the project building remains heated during following summer. That means youth to stay on their reserve, by contributing designs for KI’s winter and cool during summer. the KI community may see their and get an education too. school that allowed for additional “We’re using straw bale instead students attend high school as Muller visited KI in the summer classroom spaces for Grade 11 and of the conventional insulation,” they’ve dreamed — at home, on of 2014 after the youth of KI 12 students. “Students took the says Loução. “That will extend their traditional ancestral land. (S)

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 Matthew Murnaghan/Canadian Paralympic Committee

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Game to contribute In the summer of 2015, the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games brought the global community to Toronto’s doorstep — and the Sheridan community played a big part in making TORONTO 2015 a success.

From the opening to the closing “I believe anything is possible CREATING ceremonies of the TORONTO 2015 with passion, hard work and It should come as no surprise Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, time.” It’s a message he delivers that members of the Sheridan Sheridan alumni and students over and over in the hopes of community also made a creative were well-represented — in inspiring those in his community contribution to the Games. competition, behind the scenes, to put in the time. Meaghan Ogilvie, a 2003 applied contributing to PANAMANIA, and Cassidy wasn’t the only photography graduate, was treating injuries in a wide range Sheridan alumnus to medal at one of 27 distinguished artists of sporting events. the Parapan Am Games; graduate commissioned by PANAMANIA, Joel Dembe took home a bronze the TORONTO 2015 arts and COMPETING medal in the wheelchair tennis culture festival. The works created Competing in the Games on home doubles event. Also competing in by Ogilvie and her peers explored soil in front of family, friends and the PanAm Games were former the themes of water, immigration his country was a special moment Sheridan Bruins stars Molham and identity. Influenced by for wheelchair athlete and Sheridan Babouli and Raheem Edwards, the teachings of indigenous alumnus Josh Cassidy. “I feel so members of the Canadian men's communities, Ogilvie’s underwater grateful and excited to have had the soccer team; and Sheridan photo series “Requiem of Water” opportunity to compete in a major student Amanda Braddock, was intended to heighten public games (event) in Canada and even who was one of six women on awareness of, and encourage more thrilled that it was in my city,” Canada’s weightlifting team. thoughtful responsibility towards, says Cassidy. Perhaps the home our precious water sources. field advantage helped Cassidy; he TREATING/REHABILITATING brought home three silver medals Sheridan faculty and alumni have PRODUCING in the 800m, 1500m, and 5000m a long tradition of volunteering Two-time Sheridan graduate wheelchair race events. at the Pan Am and Parapan Am Amanda Fleet’s role at the Games Just as special as the medals, Games, the Olympics, and other was behind the scenes — and Cassidy says, is the legacy that international sporting events. vitally important. Fleet acted as the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games TORONTO 2015 was no exception. Production Coordinator for the leaves for Toronto and the Among those lending their expertise Opening and Closing Ceremonies, province as a whole. “It is all about were 25 Athletic Therapy alumni, managing the many moving parts inspiring the future generation as well as Amanda Halls and Nicole involved in each ceremony. A through athletics. Sport has truly DiFilippo, the Director and Manager daunting task, but Fleet’s decade changed my life, and showing of Sheridan’s Athletic Therapy Clinic. of experience as a freelance children the opportunities DiFilippo served as Lead Medical technician set her up to succeed available to them in sport — both Practitioner at the water polo venue in spite of tremendous pressure. at a professional and recreation while Halls held the same role at the “Being a part of the Ceremonies level — is priceless.” Cassidy has field hockey venue. team was an exciting and rewarding  been partially paralyzed since “It’s my first Games of this role, not only because of what I At the 2015 Parapan Am Games battling and overcoming cancer magnitude,” says Halls. “I think learned each day but because I was in Toronto, Sheridan alumnus and as a baby, but has never seen it’s important to give back to the contributing to something that will wheelchair athlete Josh Cassidy his wheelchair as a hindrance to sporting community that has given become part of Toronto’s, Ontario’s earned three silver medals. achieving his athletic goals: me so much.” and even Canada’s history.” (S)

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Creative campus, extended Sheridan’s innovative MakerSpace Creative Hub invites Brampton community members to try out the technology that’s changing everything.

In the words of its Director, Dr. Farzad Rayegani, Sheridan’s Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies (CAMDT) is “a place to play” — with ideas, with materials, and with leading-edge equipment like 3D printers and robotics technology. Now, with MakerSpace Creative Hub, Sheridan is extending the opportunity to play beyond its Davis Campus and into the broader Brampton community. MakerSpace acts as a community-based innovation hub where local schools, students, inventors, developers, makers and residents can come together and collaborate while sharing tools, resources and knowledge. Users of the facility, located in the Brampton Library, can experiment with 3D printing, play with robotics or design a renovation project — or the next CN Tower — with architectural modelling software. The project is the product of a partnership between Sheridan, Brampton Library and the City of Brampton; its goal is to support the creative economy in Brampton by engaging community groups, attracting entrepreneurs and introducing technology resources to a wider audience, thereby  helping to foster the development of 21st- Sheridan’s MakerSpace Creative century job skills. Hub allows Brampton residents of “We’re very pleased to be involved in this all ages to explore and experiment great project to support the creative economy with some of today’s most in Brampton,” says Brampton City Councillor important technologies. Jeff Bowman, Chair, Economic Development Committee. “Now there’s even more

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Now there’s even more opportunity for the next generation of creative professionals to get interactive with technology, develop new skills, and be inspired with new entrepreneurial ideas.

opportunity for the next generation of creative If you can imagine it, professionals to get interactive with technology, develop new skills, and be inspired with new you can print it. entrepreneurial ideas.” Overseen by experts from CAMDT and the Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, the program is available to community members “It wasn’t that long ago that 3D printing of all ages. “Our library spaces are designed was completely unfathomable to me,” to serve as broad a demographic as possible,” says Brampton resident Elizabeth Gyuran. says Rebecca Raven, CEO of Brampton Library. But since she and her family discovered “Our MakerSpace programs span all ages and MakerSpace, what was once the stuff of interests, from young preschoolers right up science fiction is now a regular part of to seniors. Everyone learns in different ways. Gyuran’s life. “My husband was the one who Come to the MakerSpace to dig in, discover was interested in it initially. He rebuilds old and learn by doing.” cars, and he wanted to learn to 3D print parts Learning by doing is a critical component of that you can’t buy anymore.” So Gyuran, Sheridan’s approach to education — and will her husband, and their 11-year-old daughter prove increasingly important as the demand attended a MakerSpace session — and it for STEM (science, technology, engineering, wasn’t long before Gyuran was hooked. “If mathematics) education grows. you can imagine it, you can print it. That’s “Sheridan is doing something about the amazing to me. At first, what I printed was growing demand for STEM training,” says useless, but as I’ve learned and improved I’ve Sheridan’s President and Vice Chancellor, begun experimenting with using 3D printing Dr. Jeff Zabudsky. “We’re getting out to the to reproduce an old leather technique called community. We’re not just writing papers about wet forming.” Gyuran says she’s grateful STEM education, we’re creating places that are for the opportunity to experiment with the open to the broader community to showcase technology — every week, for free. “It’s and test things like robotics, 3D printing, incredible that I get to try, try and try again microelectronics; all opportunities for great until I get it. It’s definitely worth learning. careers. We’re saying to people, young and old, This is the future.” come try out these new technologies that are changing the world as we know it.” (S)

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Thanks to our friends Sheridan would like to thank its caring community of supporters for their tremendous generosity over the past year. As a result of these investments, programs have been invigorated, scholarships have been established and we continue to provide an environment that enables creativity and innovation to flourish. Through the extraordinary participation of so many, we have bolstered our reputation as one of Canada’s leading postsecondary institutions. Sheridan is significantly better today as a result of your commitment. Thank you for demonstrating your belief in what we can achieve.

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE BENEFACTOR Campus Development Corp LEADER $1,000,000+ $250,000 – $499,999 Cogeco $25,000 – $99,999 Cisco Systems Canada Co Brampton Brick Limited Corus Entertainment Inc. ALMAG Aluminum Inc. Randy & Catherine Pilon Cimetrix Solutions Inc. Deloitte Foundation Canada The Brian Linehan Charitable Siemens Canada Limited Shaw Media Enersource Foundation The New AM 740 Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan GOVERNOR’S CIRCLE PATRON – Zoomer Radio Bryan Dawson $500,000 – $999,999 $100,000 – $249,999 Patheon Inc. Robert W. Dye guard.me International Insurance ABB Inc. Virox Technologies Inc. The Estate of Marjory E. Young Sheridan Alumni BMO Financial Group Jeff Zabudsky Fairfax Financial Holdings Inc.

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 Randy and Catherine Pilon — the donors behind Sheridan’s first named Faculty, the Pilon School of Business.

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The Global Group Dr. Roger & Mrs. Janet Beck Anonymous The Characters Talent Agency Great-West Life, London Life Benjamin Moore Paints Anu Raina Designs Inc. Charles Havill Chartered Accountant and Canada Life Brown Daniels Associates Inc. Applied Electronics Ltd. Marcia Christie Heritage Educational Foundation Canadian Association of Broadcast Arc Fire Services CIBC Panavision Canada Representatives ARC Productions Animation Ciber Steven & Jacqueline Parfeniuk Canadian Gift Association & Visual Effects CILECT & Family Canon Canada Inc. Carmelo Arnoldin John & Shirley Clifford Lisa & Philip Piccolo CJMR 1320 Association of Architectural Michael & Nancy Cloutier Princess Auto Foundation Cushman & Wakefield Ltd. Technologists of Ontario Closing the Gap Healthcare Group PS Production Services Mark & Jennifer Deighton Association of Registered Interior Coca-Cola Bottling Company The Rotary Club of Oakville Delta Nu Alpha Transportation Designers of Ontario Jane Cockton Trafalgar Foundation Facebook Bamboo Legend Colleen Nicholson Scholarship Fund Side Effects Software James Forbes Paul Baron Colour Innovations Marlene Waechter FORREC BDO Canada LLP Dr. Keith & Mr. Fred Comeau George Friedman Architect Beanfield Technologies Inc. Construction Specifications PARTNER Heat & Frost Insulators Local 95 Beaulieu Canada Canada – Toronto Chapter $10,000 – $24,999 Hewlett Packard (Canada) Ltd. Nancy Beiman Cooksville Interiors Inc. Bell Hollend Furnishings Ltd. Belden CDT (Canada) Inc. Cooper Shoots Caldwell Securities Ltd. Noel Hooper Bell & Mackenzie Co. Ltd. Diane Corner Canada Type Intact Financial Corporation Joan Bennett Cathy Coulthard Canadian Healthcare Engineering Joy 1250 Big Fat Pen Publishing Inc. Critical Mass Society – Ontario Chapter Kiwanis Club of Brampton Karen Blackledge Crown Wallpaper & Fabrics Compass Group Canada Tibor Madjar Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP DancExperts Robert Cook Katarina Mazi Blue Giant Canada Ltd. Data Media Inc. Vladimir Kabelik Iain McNab Boehringer Ingelheim Canada David Gouett Professional Knowledge First Foundation NCO Grenville Management Therese Bolliger & Arturo Nagel Dentistry McCarthy Tetrault LLP & Printing Gerald C. Boswell Deloitte Management Services LP Meridian Credit Union NVIDIA Sandra Boswell Denis Devos Nharo African Art & Crafts Inc. Omron Canada Inc. David Brady DHX Media Ltd. Mary Preece RL Solutions Brampton and Caledon Sim Digital Primary Response Security The Rotary Club of Brampton Community Foundation Stephanie Dimech & Investigations Technicolor Toronto Brampton Business & Professional Dianna Dinevski Lois Rice Town of Oakville Women’s Club Paul & Anita Downie Michael Rubinoff Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club Brenda Clark Illustrator Inc. DSC Laboratories Sheridan Student Union Wacom Technology Services Bruce Peninsula Art Show Dufferin Peel Educational Simcoe Steel Ltd. Zonta Club of Oakville Michael Burjaw Resource Workers Association Softchoice Business Interiors by Staples Dunbar Medical Inc. Walker Wood Foundation SPONSOR Cadillac Fairview Corporation Susan & James Eckenwalder Meredith White $500 – $4,999 Ron & Lloyd Cameron-Lewis Educational Resource Facilitators A & E Income Tax Services Lianne Campbell of Peel FOUNDER Activo Inc. Candybox Marketing Evangelical Asian Church $5,000 – $9,999 Advertising Club of Toronto Cannon Design Ltd. Michael Evans +VG Architects Aircraft Appliances & Equipment Centra Developments Fabricland of Canada Adobe Systems Incorporated Sharon Aitken Centura Tile (Hamilton) Alison Feierabend Alzheimer Society Peel Album Studio Certified Professional Trainers Frank Ferris Angela Bruce Chapter of the IODE Allsteel Network (CPTN) figure3 Michael Barber AME Learning Inc. CFUW Mississauga Fogler, Rubinoff LLP

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Forge Media + Design The Kathleen & William Davis Andrew Ness Simpson Siu Christine Franch Scholarship Bursary Fund Oakville Hydro Seas the Moment Consulting FUSION: The Ontario Clay and KineMedics OEM Corporation The Smile Company Glass Association Steven Knab Osnium Software Inc. Kimberley & Ralf Soeder Robert Fyfe Patricia Knight Greg Peterson Sovereign Wealth Management Inc. Catherine Gagne KONE Inc. Nelson Education Spec Furniture Inc. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art The Kotuba Family David & Sybil Nowell Speers Road Broadloom Ltd. Justine Giuliani KPMG Ontario College & University St. Jude’s Church Marilyn Glaholm Peter Lade Telecommunications & Information Mary Stager Glass Art Association of Canada Dr. Darren Lawless & Dr. Rita Terzian Network Association J. Bev Stainton Rafael Goldchain Lawrence Lawrence Stevenson LLP Pallett Valo LLP Stantec Consulting Ltd. David Gotlib Le Chateau Inc. April Patterson Stoneworx Graham Muir Sales Inc. Rena Li Pearson Canada The Symons Group Great Lakes Scenic Studios Inc. Denise Lisson Peekaboo Child Care Centre Inc. Ruth Taylor Green Twirl Energy Ltd. Brent Lowe-Bernie Peel Regional Police Association TD Greg Bond Musical Theatre Maria Lucido-Bezely PHD Canada Telio Foundation Fund c/o Toronto Community M. Lloyd Rubinoff, Barristers Pi Media Shannon Teskey Foundation and Solicitors Pinchin Environmental Toronto Star G T Wood Company Limited Sherri MacDonald André Plante Toshiba of Canada Ltd. GURU Studio MacGillivray Partners PLASP Child Care Services Trafalgar Ridge Chiropractic Gail Hakala Macquarie North America Pottery Supply House Limited & Acupuncture Clinic Whitney Hammond Marant Construction Pratt & Whitney Canada Alana Turner Louise Harrison Marcomm (Toronto) Inc. Professional Baseball Athletic Unisource Canada Inc. Willem Hart Marion Abbott’s Performing Trainers Society Jarnail Singh Vanvat Hatch Mott MacDonald Arts Studio Prosecutors’ Association of Ontario Via-Con Masonry Haworth Ltd. Joanne Mathews Alan M. Reid Vistek Ltd. Herman Miller Canada Inc. McCabe Filkin Garvie Wendy Ritchie Ernest Wall Hicks Morley LLP Barrister Robert McElman Rotary Club of Mississauga – Robert Welsh Amy Holland Linda & Ian McGinnis City Centre Shelley White David & Mariella Holmes McGraw-Hill Education Rotary Club of Mississauga – West William F. White International Inc. William Holmes Debra McKay S1 GROUP WJT Signs Supply House of Cool Inc. John Metcalf Abigail Salole Susanne Wodar Hughes & Brannan MetriCan International Samuel, Son & Co. Limited Women’s Art Association of Canada Hydro One Inc. Metroland Media Group Ltd. SDI Interior Design and Project Women’s Habitat of Etobicoke IBM Canada Ltd. Russell & Patricia Mewse Coordination Andrew Wright Intercept Group MFS Investment Management Richard Sewell Ygeia & Kinesia Rehabilitation Inc. Interface Canada Limited Scalar Decisions Inc. Norman & Marilyn Young Isis Studio Mississauga Power Basketball Russell & Sharon Schmidt Mary-Lu Zahalan & Chris Kennedy J.M. Cochrane Awards Brenda Molloy-Measures Greg Sellwood Zonta Club of Brampton – Caledon Javelin Technologies Inc. Monday Night at the Movies Pamela Shanks Zonta Club of Mississauga John Jones Francine Murphy Siamons International Inc. Cathy Zuraw Juniper Networks Canada Lisa Neighbour Bert Silva

This list represents donors and partners who made a gift or pledge payment from August 1, 2014 – December 31, 2015. It does not include donors who have requested anonymity nor bequest intentions. If your name has been omitted inadvertently or incorrectly acknowledged, we offer our apologies. We hope that you will contact our Advancement office at 905-815-4299 so that we can correct this oversight.

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By the numbers 

Postsecondary institutions around the world are $710.1M — Amount of added income generated in the renowned for the tremendous contribution they regional workforce by former make to their home communities. Sheridan is Sheridan students no exception. Our presence extends across three West GTA cities and two regions. This data highlights the economic impact of our operating activities and quantifies the impact we’re having  to advance scholarship, research and creative Sheridan students activities for the benefit of our communities. contributed $56.1M to our local economies through transportation, accommodation and other living expenses $978,5 Amount added to the economies of Halton

900 The number of journal articles, $6,246,934 technical reports, books, research posters and creative Amount of external funding for activities such as photographs, films, plays and artistic pieces undergraduate research in 2014/15 completed by our professors

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1,710 NUMBER OF STUDENTS INVOLVED IN RESEARCH $212.3M 1 Approximate amount added in income to the Halton and Peel regions due to 1ST IN CANADA AMONG Sheridan’s day-to-day operations COLLEGES FOR THE NUMBER OF TOTAL RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPLETED (225) 00,000 and Peel regions by Sheridan and its students

298+ % NUMBER OF 20 ORGANIZATIONS of Sheridan’s full-time faculty members engaged in scholarship, SUPPORTED THROUGH research and creative activities, helping to capture and disseminate RESEARCH PROJECTS knowledge and allow innovation and creativity to fl ourish

02 All information provided is current as of publication and is subject to change; January 2016. 27 REFLECTIONS ON 2015

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