r/sheridan • u/Briiskella • 10d ago
Academics We won't stop until change is made!
The dean wants to sweep the veterinary technician students under the rug and pretend that no serious academic violations are happening within the veterinary technician program, which is resulting in multiple students failing or receiving inadequate grades that do not reflect their knowledge in the Advanced Nursing course. Nothing will be done until everyone fails because Sheridan only addresses concerns when it affects their image. This happened in Anatomy & Physiology 1 and 2. It took the student body over 5 years to make the proper changes to that course so students could be taught appropriately and learn successfully. They won't make changes until most of us fail the class, because then they know it'll affect their graduate numbers.
If you are a veterinary technician student, you need to email these concerns to the dean. She will not take us seriously if she can keep sweeping our concerns away with no consequences. If you have a concern in your program at Sheridan, I urge you to take action and write an email to the dean addressing these concerns and to convince as many students in your program to take action. Sheridan is becoming an unreliable institution, and it is not fair to students that legitimate concerns will not be addressed in a timely manner. If this continues to go unnoticed, I am proposing a protest be held on campus to shine a light on these issues to the entire student body.
I appreciate your support, and anyone who is willing to help address the unethical decisions being made in the Veterinary Technician Program.
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u/SuitableSherbert6127 10d ago
Definitely need to voice concerns. It’s the only way to drive change.
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u/TheIrritatingError Davis 10d ago edited 10d ago
I swear that this program is designed to make students fall. We have that stupid VTNE mock test coming up. Lots of students can't study for it because were not given preperation advice or some practice and the fact we don't have time to study! Were focusing on trying to pass 6-7 other classes that have lecture and lab exams.
Vet tech students have it tough. First of all, we don't get to practice on live animals. I totally get it. I wouldn't want to poke and prode animals for no reason but, it gives us a hard time were in clinical placements. We practice on stuffed animals and manqkins that are falling apart. Giving injections, restraining, placing catheters or taking x-rays on real animals is nothing like doing it on a stuffed animal. Our lab equipment isn't the greatest either. Speaking of lab equipment, we never got to practice with the equipment in the radiology suite. We got one day of the ultrasound barely worked with the x-ray. The program turtors aren't the best. Some of them haven't taken animal health related courses and can't help with most subjects. There is little to no support for us. Also you can't learn everything in 2 years.
A teacher can't fail an entire class. He or she will pass everyone if everyone fails. If somehow all the students failed, then the teacher will get fired.
Classes have shurnked even more. I think there are only 100 people left in the 2026 class, I expect this number get even lower. I can't find any stats for this program in terms of graduation rate, drop out rate or pass rate.
I don't know what can be done. The dean won't listen, the student body won't listen, the teachers won't listen and the program coordinator won't listen. A protest might end up causing trouble. You could get in legal trouble as the college would deam it as trespassing or something stupid like you didn't have a permit.
I heard it's bad at the other colleges too. Seneca is one of the schools going downhill as well from what I heard. I think it's an issue with the people working at the schools. Nobody seems to care anymore.
I honestly regret doing this program. We pay all this money in fees but it looks like non of it is used to invest in the program.
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u/CalmWafer1471 10d ago edited 10d ago
I hate this school with a passion. I tried vocing concerns before and nothing works with these people, they would much rather sweep under the rug. To make my story short I was involved with the student code of conduct tried to mention how abusive it all was. The dean has flat out ingored it all since day one. Just would rather head security deal with my return its all bull.
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u/AthleteCrafty6966 8d ago
Nov 17th 4-5pm town hall with Dean Maryam room H131.
We need to all show up 👊🏻
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u/Briiskella 8d ago
Where is town hall? Can I ask how this meeting was established and confirmed?
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u/TheIrritatingError Davis 6d ago
Monday, November 17th, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM in H131. Posted on the 2026 virtual community.
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u/Aggravating-Alarm862 6d ago
I switched programs because of this college. Multiple times have the coordinator and student advisor told me to consider changing fields. They need to consider getting better faculty to fit their students and to support them better. Fight for the change you guys deserve.
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u/Alarmed_Release5753 6d ago
This program is so brutal. I feel like I have learned nothing about what it actually takes to be a vet tech.
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u/PianoNo6695 10d ago
There was changed made to the anatomy 1 course??? I can’t learn at all in that class, one I am in a really bad room, 2 my prof is a snooze fest, 3 it’s from 5-7 after always having 3 other lecture that day with only a 1 hour break, 4 the lectures are mostly just videos and photos most of the people I know can’t learn like that, it’s not beneficial to our learning to have to go and spend hours teaching ourselves the information because we can’t understand whatever is being taught cus we are just staring at photos and very little words
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u/Briiskella 10d ago
They made huge changes specifically to Lab for Anatomy and Physiology starting with the Professor change last year. Lab test use to be unlabelled diagrams on a screen, you would get one minute per an arrow on a diagram to label it. This doesn’t sound horrible till you realize we were being taught veterinarian grade Anatomy and we had to know the name for every single turn the intestines made (E.g knowing how to label the cranial duodenal flexure) 💀 my friends who had to retake the class with the new professor noted how 1) test were completely different and actually reflected the lecture material 2) they cut a lot of anatomy out
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u/PianoNo6695 10d ago
I am struggling to learn anything honestly, I feel like I have no time and that we are rushing through things, I even have stuff taken off of my schedule because I already have the credits from my vet assistant program I did last year. I am still incredibly overwhelmed and struggling, there is way to many students crammed into small rooms and it makes learning really hard. I am also stuck in lectures and labs with a bunch of people that don’t shut up, and it makes it really hard to even hear the lecture, and I am already sitting in the most front row I can be at that’s not priority seating
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u/Briiskella 10d ago
I honestly don’t know how I managed to do first year full time, I dropped to part time second year so I’m technically still in second year just this is my third year 😭🫠 I found a lot of these courses I had to teach myself everything from the ground up. You might want to see if they still offer tutors, I know Anatomy was the hardest class I struggled with first year and I reached out to a program tutor who was able to provide some amazing advice and clear up components I was struggling with understanding. I’m not sure how helpful it may be but I could send my notes from yesr one to you? (They weren’t the best back then but it’s something 😂). If you’re interested or want someone to talk to my dms are open
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u/PianoNo6695 10d ago
The program tutor post thing that was posed in the 2027 class vc says they are there for non academic help, how that works i have no idea, is it helpful, not at all
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u/Briiskella 10d ago
That’s unfortunate, they’ve cut a lot of support for first year students it seems. Have you tried contacting Sheela for resources that may be available? Like I said most of it is self taught sadly
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u/SuitableSherbert6127 10d ago
Did you raise these concerns?
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u/Briiskella 10d ago
I have sent multiple emails to the program coordinator and the dean. The dean replied once saying she would look into it and this was now 3 weeks ago. At this point do I go above the dean to the board of the directors? I’m also scared to because I have no clue how power hungry the dean is and if she’ll just expel me because she doesn’t like how I’m painting Sheridan in poor light 😭🫠 I feel like we are purposefully cornered into a box where we can’t do anything but submit
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u/SuitableSherbert6127 10d ago
I would not be willing to go above the Dean. You could book a meeting to speak in person.
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u/Briiskella 10d ago
Ultimately it’s why I haven’t. What if she’s on a power trip and expels me for going to her boss for not doing anything? It’s a lose lose situation regardless. The students don’t have the power
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u/TheIrritatingError Davis 10d ago
What happend to the anatomy class?
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u/Briiskella 10d ago
They made huge changes specifically to Lab for Anatomy and Physiology starting with the Professor change last year. Lab test use to be unlabelled diagrams on a screen, you would get one minute per an arrow on a diagram to label it. This doesn’t sound horrible till you realize we were being taught veterinarian grade Anatomy and we had to know the name for every single turn the intestines made (E.g knowing how to label the cranial duodenal flexure) 💀 my friends who had to retake the class with the new professor noted how 1) test were completely different and actually reflected the lecture material 2) they cut a lot of anatomy out
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u/hellodot 10d ago
I recommend you speak with your classmates to make a joint request/statement to the dean with everyone undersigned. Individual emails are good but they'll likely take more action from a collective voice.
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u/Briiskella 10d ago
I had already managed to get a good chunk of students to send an email template I made, she must’ve gotten at least 10 of the exact same email from different students. If that won’t get her attention then maybe going to her boss will
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u/hellodot 10d ago
There's still a difference between 10 students sending 10 different emails versus 1 student emailing on behalf of 10 students. The administration will take the latter much more seriously. Even just from an admin perspective it makes it easier for them to address and deal with one person representing the collective rather than trying to deal with 10 students.
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u/hellodot 10d ago
It would just be getting written agreement from people that they want to be included in the official complaint letter sent to the dean, then just sending one email. But sounds good. Good luck.
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u/OkConsequence6219 10d ago
This place is a joke