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Title: Interview with Joe Jagdeo
Description: Dr. Joe Jagdeo talks about his experience as one of the first international students at Scarborough College and as a student of its first graduating class. He touches on his immigration process and his impressions of Canada upon his arrival. He shares stories of his time at Scarborough College, in medical school, at SickKids, and his career at Scarborough General Hospital. He also comments on the growth and changing demographics of Scarborough and how it has impacted his medical career.
Subject: Diversity, Education, Housing, Immigration, Scarborough College, Student experience

Title: Interview with Wayne Dowler
Description: Wayne Dowler came to UTSC, or what was then Scarborough College, as a history professor in 1974. From that point until his retirement in 2011, Wayne was able to understand the workings of the university through his experience serving as the Chair of Humanities and as the Dean of Students and Residence. The insight from these experiences allowed him to comment on the growing professionalization of student programs and of administration. At the time of his arrival, Scarborough College had recently separated its undergraduate program from the downtown campus, which produced a strong sense of mission and esprit de corps on campus. Wayne touches upon the spirit of the college in his early days there with its small size creating close multidisciplinary connections, sense of community, and a collegial feeling that has diminished over the years.
Subject: Community, Diversity, Faculty experience, Housing

Title: Interview with Kelvin Sealey
Description: Kelvin Sealey, an alumnus of UTSC and current head of the Dragon Academy, discusses how the ambitions that he brought to what was then Scarborough College, paired with the values he learned on campus had influenced his future life and career. He discusses his lifelong friendships with those he met in residence, the advice he received while here that encouraged him to volunteer at MTV, and the path that eventually led him to private school administration. His discussion also highlights what life was like at Scarborough College during the 1980s in terms of student diversity, taking the shuttle to the downtown campus, and the student body’s impression of UTSC when compared with UTSG.
Subject: Diversity, Drama, Housing, Student experience