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Title: Interview with Kevin Wright
Description: Kevin Wright, a long-time theatre production manager in the Leigha Lee Browne Theatre and course instructor in the Arts, Culture, and Media Department since 1995, reflects upon UTSC theatre production and the larger campus. He discusses joining UTSC at a transitional time of technological change, as well as reflecting upon the changes that occurred around the overall understanding of theatre. Kevin speaks to both the the technical challenges of staging a theatrical production along with discussing his experiences of teaching theatre production to students. He shares insightful knowledge around UTSC's earlier years and its experimentation with the television studio, the conversion of the television studio into a theatre, as well as the history of the Leigha Lee Browne Theatre.
Subject: Community, Drama, Faculty experience, Technology

Title: Interview with Paula Sperdakos
Description: Professor Paula Sperdakos reflects upon teaching at UTSC and directing productions in the Leigha Lee Browne Theatre. She shares some of her observations during the time she worked at UTSC for 28 years since 1990, such as the physical transformation of the campus, the changes in diversity amongst the campus population, the changes in faculty interactions, and the transformation of departments overtime.
Subject: Community, Drama, Technology, Women

Title: Interview with James Allan Cheyne
Description: Professor James Allan Cheyne took his first academic appointment in the department of Psychology at Scarborough College in 1969. While only teaching and researching at Scarborough College for a year, the building architecture, the valley land, the TV studio, and experiences with fellow Psychology faculty members marked Prof. Cheyne's experience. Prof. James Allan Cheyne is Professor Emeritus (Psychology) of the University of Waterloo.
Subject: Buildings, Facilities, Faculty experience, Scarborough College, Technology

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.
Subject: Technology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Administration, Campus growth

Title: Interview with Mary Ann Vernon
Subject: University of Toronto Scarborough, Technology, Buildings and facilities, Student Experience, UTSC Library

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.
Subject: Education, Faculty experience, St. George campus, Technology, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

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.
Subject: Campus growth, Community, Diversity, Education, Extra-curricular activities, Faculty experience, Scarborough College, Technology, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

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