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Title: Interview with John M. Kennedy
Description: Professor John M. Kennedy began teaching in the department of Psychology at Scarborough College in the 1972. Prof. Kennedy shares his perspective of psychology and the importance of being original as well as describing his pedagogical approaches to the subject, as seen in his creation of a “science perception fair” type of research presentation. He speaks about the changing academic and social climate of the campus over the years, along with the changing nature of education and research. Additionally, Prof. Kennedy sheds light on the reputations of differing UofT campuses while also describing the relationship of faculty, particularly those belonging to Life Sciences, with the St. George campus. While Prof. Kennedy may have officially retired in 2010, he continues to research, teach, and supervise graduate students at the university.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Zoran Piljevic
Description: Zoran Piljevic, the current Director of Information Instructional Technology Services from 2008, reflects on the role of IITS at UTSC. He touches upon his involvement in the physical expansion of the campus and the widespread integration of technology into UTSC’s classrooms. Additionally, he comments on the early integration of television into the campus and speculates on its lack of success being connected to the ways in which this teaching model, and online learning, is limited in regards to the interaction between students and instructors. Zoran also touches upon the tensions that exist between UTSC and UTSG from an IT perspective, with the central IT serving the divisions in St. George while UTSC and UTM exist on the periphery as a campus and a division.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Angela Hamilton
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Title: Interview with Margaret Yan
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Title: Interview with Denise Lopes
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Title: Interview with Naresh Sritharan
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Title: Interview with Ruth Louden
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Title: Interview with Shelby Verboven
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Title: Interview with Kyomi Hastings Duncan
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Title: Interview with Norm Kelly
Description: Norm Kelly reflects on his long political and personal career in Scarborough. Growing up in the Wexford neighbourhood in the 1950s, Kelly witnessed the dramatic transformation Scarborough underwent from quiet farmland to a busy city. By the 1970s Kelly was active in Scarborough politics and acted as an alderman for the Scarborough Council. Kelly then went on to act as a federal MP for Scarborough Centre, run mayoral campaigns in Scarborough, act as councillor for wards in Scarborough, and acted as deputy mayor and acting mayor (2013).
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Katheleene Smith
Description: Katheleene Smith, a business officer in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (CMS), reflects upon her career at UTSC since the early 2000s. She talks about her early life, her hiring process, the changes in staff roles and responsibilities over the years, the Scarborough Campus community and its comparison to St. George, and her experience working in the Department of CMS.
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Title: Interview with Sandford Borins
Description: Professor Sandford Borins was the chair of the UTSC Management department from 1991-2003 (with two years of research leave). After arriving at UTSC, Prof. Borins actively created and built a new Management program. Prof. Borins speaks about the administrative and academic challenges and acheviements of the Management department -- as well as the campus more broadly. After 2003, Prof. Borins continued to teach, research, and publish as a faculty member of the university.
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Title: Interview with Susan Horton
Description: Professor Susan Horton was a faculty member and administrator at UTSC from the mid 1980s-2004. As the program coordinator of International Development Studies (IDS), she had the opportunity to actively participate in the development of the IDS co-op program and connect with students. During this time Professor Horton also occupied a graduate appointment at UTSG and so, she discusses the difficulties of balancing her time and travelling between UTSC and the downtown campus. This experience has also allowed her to comment on how the downtown campus' perception of UTSC. Professor Horton reflects upon her administrative and faculty experience at UTSC and her impact on the UTSC co-op program.
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Title: Interview with Neil ten Kortenaar
Description: Professor Neil ten Kortenaar began teaching at UTSC during the 1980s. After completing his PhD at the University of Toronto, Prof. ten Kortenaar soon became a faculty member in the Humanities department at Scarborough College. Prof. ten Kortenaar reflects upon the rich diversity of the Scarborough campus, his approach to teaching English courses, and his experience as an administrator at both the St. George and Scarborough campuses. As of summer 2020, Prof. ten Kortenaar is currently the Chair of the English department at UTSC.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Ron Smyth
Description: Professor Ronald Smyth, now with Emeritus status, began teaching at UTSC during the late 1980s when he was appointed in both Linguistics and Psychology, as well as acting in various administrative roles on campus. In discussing first impressions and his early career at UTSC, Prof. Smyth comments on the brutalist architecture of the campus, both through his own experience navigating the campus and his perspective of how the growth of the student body during his time here has change the original architecture. His discussion of the relationship between the St. George and Scarborough campus highlights the similarities he has observed between the two which debunks prevalent negative misconceptions of Scarborough. Prof. Smyth also reflects upon his personal experience as a gay professor on campus, touching upon the LGBTQ+ community on campus and the changes in the reception of the Positive Space Committee.
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Title: Interview with Andrew Arifuzzaman
Description: As of 2021, Andrew Arifuzzaman is the Chief Administrative Officer at the University of Toronto Scarborough’s (UTSC) Office of Business, Operations, and Strategic Affairs. As a resident of Scarborough for over 30 years, Andrew reflects upon the evolution that he has witnessed in Scarborough, ranging from negative perceptions of the area, emerging diversification of the community, as well as differing views concerning the establishment of the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre in Scarborough. He links such perceptions to a larger discussion of the contention and differences between UTSC and UTSG stemming from 1964. Andrew joined UTSC in 2007 as the Chief Strategy Officer, around the time when universities began to shift from academic management towards the emergence of professional management. He talks about his responsibilities over the day-to-day operations of the campus as its CAO along with the business side of UTSC and its methods of generating revenue, including the recruitment of international students from the Green Path Program.
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Title: Interview with Gudrun Curri
Description: Linguist Professor Robert Binnick joined Scarborough College in 1972 and retired in 2011. He talks about his faculty experiences working with all three campuses of the University of Toronto, as well as the tensions between the downtown and Scarborough campuses. With over thirty years of experiences at the University of Toronto, he brings great insight into the growth and change of the Scarborough campus, the humanities department, and the study of humanities as a whole.
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Title: Interview with Curtis Cole
Description: As of 2021, Curtis Cole is the Registrar and Assistant Dean of Enrolment Management at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He first joined UTSC in 2002 as an Academic Advisor at the Academic Advising and Career Centre. Born and raised in southwest Scarborough, Cole talks about the early perceptions of UTSC as a "backdoor" to the University of Toronto and talks about the evolution of Scarborough as a legitimate part of the University of Toronto. Cole discusses the public perception of UTSC, both in regards to domestic students and on an international scale. Cole also touches upon the changing value of undergraduate degrees, as well as the recruitment and rise and of international student admission and tuition at UTSC.
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Title: Interview with Adrian De Leon
Description: Adrian de Leon discusses his rationale for attending UTSC in 2012 and reflects upon his time as VP Academics for the SCSU (Scarborough Campus Students' Union) and as part of the tri-campus Governing Council. Prompted to speak on themes of community, inclusion and exclusion, de Leon recounts staging a sit-in at the Bladen Library and advocating improved studying conditions, as well as the barriers he faced as a student representative of colour. He discusses the difference between equality and equity, as well as UTSC campus' shift from political apathy to political engagement.
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Title: Interview with Alexandra Flynn
Description: Professor Alexandra Flynn speaks on her personal experience growing up in Indigenous communities and learning to become an Indigenous ally. She also notes the importance of actively integrating Indigenous knowledge into education while also touching upon the ways in which she tries to promote Indigenous knowledge in her City Studies courses.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

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