Janet Morrison
Janet Morrison | |
|---|---|
| 8th President of Sheridan College | |
| Assumed office June 11, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Mary Preece |
| President of Memorial University of Newfoundland | |
Designate | |
| Assuming office August 11, 2025 | |
| Succeeding | Vianne Timmons |
| Personal details | |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Bowling Green State University |
Janet Kathleen Morrison is a Canadian academic administrator currently serving as the 8th president and vice chancellor of Sheridan College. She was previously the vice provost of students at York University. On April 30, 2025 it was announced she would become the President and Vice-Chancellor of the Memorial University of Newfoundland beginning on August 11, 2025.[1]
Career
[edit]Morrison completed a Ph.D. in higher education at the Bowling Green State University in August 1997.[2] Her dissertation was titled, Correlates and Predictors of Safer Sexual Behavior Among Canadian Undergraduate University Students.[3] C. Carney Strange was her doctoral advisor.[3]
Morrison worked in student affairs and taught at the University of Guelph, Bowling Green State University, Medical College of Ohio, and George Brown College.[4] She joined York University where she worked for 17 years in several roles before being promoted to vice provost of students.[4] Morrison joined Sheridan College in 2016 as the provost and vice president.[4] On June 11, 2018, she became its 8th president and vice chancellor.[4]
Morrison has two children.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Exciting new Chapter". Memorial University Gazette. April 30, 2025. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ a b Samson, Natalie (January 25, 2017). "Janet Morrison reflects on 25 years of championing student success at York U". University Affairs. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- ^ a b Morrison, Janet Kathleen (August 1997). Correlates and Predictors of Safer Sexual Behavior Among Canadian Undergraduate University Students (Ph.D. thesis). Bowling Green State University. OCLC 39690197.
- ^ a b c d "Office of the President". Sheridan College. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- Living people
- Canadian university and college chief executives
- Bowling Green State University alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Guelph
- University of Toledo faculty
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Academic staff of George Brown College
- Academic staff of York University
- Canadian women academics
- 21st-century Canadian women educators
- Women heads of universities and colleges
- Academic staff of Sheridan College