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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.
Subject: Activism, Administration, Community, Education, Indigeneity, Media
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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.
Subject: Administration, Education, Faculty experience, St. George Campus, University of Toronto Mississauga
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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
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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
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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.
Subject: Administration, Community, Immigration, Leadership
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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. He talks about the perception and diversification of Scarborough, as well as the contention and differences between UTSC and UTSG. He joined UTSC in 2007 Chief Strategy Officer, around the time when universities began to shift from academic management towards the emergence of professional management. He talks about the business side of UTSC and its methods of generating revenue, including the recruitment of international students from the Green Path Program.
Subject: Administration, Diversity, St. George Campus, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus
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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
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Title: Interview with Ron Smyth
Description: Professor Ron Smyth began teaching at UTSC during the late 1980s when he was appointed in both Linguistics and Psychology. In addition, Prof. Smyth also acted in administrative roles on campus: Associate Chair of the Department of Humanities, several committees, and organizing Positive Space on campus. Prof. Smyth reflects upon campus culture, his approach to teaching, faculty relations, and administration. He also talks about his personal experience as a gay professor on campus, the LGBTQ+ community on campus and in Scarborough, and the changes in receptiveness of Positive Space since its beginning. Prof. Smyth is now at Emeritus status with UTSC.
Subject: Administration, Culture, Faculty experience, Gender, Sexuality
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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. As of summer 2020, Prof. ten Kortenaar is currently the Chair of the English department at UTSC.
Subject: Administration, Diversity, Faculty experience, Scarborough College
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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. 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
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