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Title: Interview with William Gough
Description: Professor William Gough, Vice Principal Academic and Dean and Professor of Environment Science, shares his experiences and memories working at UTSC (then Scarborough College) since 1993.
Subject: Campus growth, Diversity, Faculty experience, Women

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 Margaret Yan
Subject: Administration, Campus growth, Leadership, University of Toronto Scarborough, International Academic Programs and Initiatives

Title: Interview with Kyomi Hastings Duncan
Subject: Administration, Diversity, Campus growth, Anti-racism, Admissions, Registrar's Office

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 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

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.
Subject: Administration, Campus growth, Faculty experience, 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 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.
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 Center for Teaching and Learning. Clare begins by discussing her curiosity and exploration-driven love for the sciences and the path she had taken from New Orleans, Florida, and UCSD that led her to UTSC. She touches upon her journey as a woman in science, the differences she has noticed between St. George and UTSC, along with the changes and development of the campus that she has witnessed from her arrival on the campus in 1989. Clare reflects on her past experiences as a student, as well as a professor, to highlight how such memories have impacted her view of, and initiatives surrounding, pedagogy.
Subject: Faculty experience, Women, University of Toronto Scarborough, Campus growth

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