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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 early 1970s. Prof. Kennedy soon took an active role in campus administration and participated in several campus committees. Prof. Kennedy speaks about the changing academic and social climate of the campus over the years, as well as the changing nature of education and research. While Prof. Kennedy may have officially retired in 2010, he continues to research, teach, and supervise graduate students at the university.
Subject: Administration, Campus growth, Faculty experience, Scarborough College

Title: Interview with William Graham
Description: Professor William Graham was UTSC's first full-time Philosopher. Teaching at the Scarborough Campus while a doctorate student at the University of Toronto, Prof. Graham was offered a position on the faculty once he successfully completed his degree. Prof. Graham was active in several campus committees regarding the development and future of the Scarborough campus. He speaks to the evolving academic and social climate of the campus. Prof. Graham retired in 2000 (now Emeritus status), but continues to research and publish.
Subject: Campus growth, Faculty experience, Scarborough College, St. George Campus

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.
Subject: Administration, Campus growth, Community, Women

Title: Interview with Robert Binnick
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.
Subject: Campus growth, Faculty experience, St. George Campus, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

Title: Interview with Christopher Waddell
Description: Christopher Waddell grew up in Scarborough and attended Scarborough College as an undergraduate during the early 1970s. Studying in the General Arts program, Christopher soon became active in the Student Council and in student publications. During the early 1970s, Christopher and a small group of other students founded the student campus newspaper, The Balcony Square. In addition, by the end of his undergraduate career, he served as Vice-President of the Student Council. Christopher went on to graduate school and a long career in both public service and academia. Christopher reflects on student life and the Scarborough community during the early 1970s.
Subject: Campus growth, Community, Scarborough College, Student experience

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. Professor Horton reflects upon her administrative and faculty experience at UTSC and her impact on the UTSC co-op program.
Subject: Administration, Campus growth, Faculty experience, Women

Title: Interview with Gudrun Curri
Description: Dr. Gudrun Curri joined the Scarborough campus in the early 1970s as an administrator of records. Gudrun soon became the first non-academic at UTSC to become the campus Registrar -- a role she acted in until the late 1980s. She then went on to pursue graduate studies and became a faculty member at Dalhousie University. Gudrun reflects about campus administration, administration relations, and campus community.
Subject: Administration, Campus growth, Community, Scarborough College

Title: Interview with Curtis Cole
Description: As of 2021, Curtis Cole is the Registrar and Assistant Dean (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, Curtis Cole talks about the early perceptions of UTSC as a "backdoor" to the University of Toronto, and he continues to talk about the evolution of Scarborough as a legitimate part of the University of Toronto. Cole also talks about the changing value of undergraduate degrees, as well as the recruitment and rise and of international student admission and tuition at UTSC.
Subject: Administration, Campus growth, Education, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

Title: Interview with Clare Hasenkampf
Description: Clare Hasenkampf is a professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough's Department of Biological Sciences and Director for the Centre for Teaching and Learning. She talks about her teaching experiences, her journey as a woman in science, and the changes and development of the campus overtime.
Subject: Faculty experience, Women, University of Scarborough, Campus growth

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.
Subject: Administration, Campus growth, Community, Faculty experience

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