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Title: Interview with Paul Harpley
Description: Paul Harpley, environmental scientist and wildlife painter, describes growing up in Scarborough in the 1960s and his time at Scarborough College first in the 1970s. He shares memories of public transport, his grandparents' cabin at the mouth of Rouge River and Scarborough's urban development. Harpley reflects upon UTSC's impact on his personal life, his environmental activism and his career in natural heritage.
Subject: Activism, Architecture, Campus growth, Community, Employment, Environmentalism, Scarborough College, Student experience, Transportation

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 Christopher Waddell
Description: Christopher Waddell reflects on his experience growing up in Scarborough and attending University of Toronto Scarborough, which was then known as Scarborough College, as an undergraduate from 1970 to 1974. Christopher provides an insight into the settlement and development of Scarborough prior to the increased diversification of its inhabitants, adding that the student body of Scarborough College largely reflected the demographics of Scarborough at the time. Studying in the General Arts program, Waddell discusses his interactions with student politicians as well as touching upon his own experience as the Vice-President of the Student Council. Additionally, Waddell mentions some of the initiatives he was involved in, such as collaborating with other students to found the student campus newspaper, The Balcony Square. Waddell ends by connecting his time at Scarborough College to his long career in both public service and academia.
Subject: Campus growth, Community, Scarborough College, Student experience

Title: Interview with Gudrun Curri
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: Administration, Campus growth, Community, Scarborough College

Title: Interview with David Onley
Subject: Accessibility, Campus growth, Community, Disabilities, Diversity, Leadership, Scarborough College

Title: Interview with Devon and Sandra Muhic
Subject: Campus growth, Community, Culture, Drama, Scarborough College, 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