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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.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Eleanor Irwin
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Brian Hamlin
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Tavila Haque
Description: Tavila Haque, a UTSC student from the 2012 graduating class, reflects on her time spent at UTSC. She looks back at her five years here with fond memories and notes how her experience here differed from the misconceptions that she had heard about UTSC. She discusses the numerous supports available to her as a student, providing advice to future and current students to take advantage of them. She specifically touches on her close relationships with her professors and how their support has allowed her to become more confident in her own work as a photographer.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Diane Hill
Description: Learning about the barriers faced by a First Nations student while attending UTSC
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Madeleine Callaghan
Description: Madeleine Callaghan, who works with the City of Toronto in the Museums and Heritage department at the Scarborough Museum, shares her own learning experience around Indigenous histories in high school in the 1970s and college in the 1980s, as well as the current challenges faced by local museums in curating public history.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

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

Title: Interview with Thomas Robles
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Floro
Description: Floro talks about his personal experience as an immigrant and his awareness of Indigenous issues and culture. Regarding his work at a Toronto Public Library, he talks about how his community's library takes a strong initiative to educate others on Indigenous culture and issues. Mentioning other branches of the Toronto Public Libraries, he speaks about how all have engaged in creating a space for Indigenous peoples to feel comfortable and respected.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Social Science Professor
Description: Social Science Professor talks about UTSC's initiative on Indigenous education, Indigenous representation in media, and her personal experience and past interactions with Indigenous people.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Gabriela Estrada
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

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Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Audry
Description: Despite having little exposure to Indigenous culture, Audry talks about her own understanding of Indigenous issues. She also talks about the education curriculum regarding Indigenous issues and culture as a primary school teacher.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Carolyn Ferns
Description: Carolyn Ferns talks about her position as the policy and government relations coordinator at the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care. She expands on the liberatory view of education involved in the realm of early childhood education and how it can be improved through politics and public policy. Carolyn discusses collaboration with other childcare organizations when working on initiatives surrounding the provincial budget and Childcare Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. In doing do, Carolyn also touches upon the ways in which these childcare organizations interact with and are impacted by the federal and provincial government.
Publisher: Stories from Scarborough

Title: Interview with Michael Gervers
Description: Professor Michael Gervers, a professor of both history and art history for over 40 years, speaks about his past and his childhood, travelling from the United Kingdom to various American cities, later studying in a Swiss high school. He shares the family origins of his interest in medieval history and his experience studying in both French and German universities before coming to Scarborough in the 1970s.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Barry Freeman
Description: Professor Barry Freeman discusses his experience as a student at UTSC in the 1990s and the journey he has taken to get to where he is now. Currently a UTSC faculty member, administrator and chair of the Arts, Culture and Media department, Freeman also reflects about the ways in which his perspective of the campus, higher education, and the overall community of Scarborough has evolved more broadly.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Wayne Enright
Description: Prof. Wayne Enright discusses his experience teaching at UTSC and establishing a Computer Science program on campus. He touches upon how the education system and high schools may prepare students and how the experience of first year students in the computer science program is, as well as how the university campuses compare.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Gerald Cupchik
Description: Gerald Cupchik recounts his journey to becoming a psychology professor at UTSC. His story began from when he decided to be a professor of social psychology at the age of 12, through his time at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin amid social unrest and civil rights movements, until he began teaching at the University of Toronto 45 years ago. Professor Cupchik uses this experience to note the ways in which academics have changed, namely through its current heightened professionalism and increased isolation. He highlights the importance of survival and connecting with your roots along with creating a community, or village, of learning in his office as he encourages his students to pursue real life research.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Paul Gooch
Description: Professor Paul Gooch discusses his experience teaching and chairing the Humanities department at Scarborough College from 1967 to 1985. Professor Gooch reflects on the social and academic climate of the campus during its beginnings. He also provides an insight on the changing relationship between Scarborough College and the St. George campus in terms of its faculty, administration and institutions during this time.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

Title: Interview with Joe Jagdeo
Description: Dr. Joe Jagdeo talks about his experience as one of the first international students at Scarborough College and as a student of its first graduating class. He touches on his immigration process and his impressions of Canada upon his arrival. He shares stories of his time at Scarborough College, in medical school, at SickKids, and his career at Scarborough General Hospital. He also comments on the growth and changing demographics of Scarborough and how it has impacted his medical career.
Publisher: Stories of UTSC

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