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Title: Interview with Karen Aboud
Description: Karen Aboud talks about her experience as an active UTSC student, both academically and in her extracurricular activities. She discusses topics ranging from her professors and classes to her involvement in student council and rallies. As a student from the first graduating class of Scarborough College in the 1960s, Aboud relays the impression she got of the layout of Scarborough in the early years of the College.
Subject: Activism, Buildings, Extra-curricular activities, Facilities, Scarborough College, Student experience

Title: Interview with Gerald Cupchik
Description: Gerald Cupchik recounts his journey to becoming a psychology professor at UTSC. His story began from when he decided to be a professor of social psychology at the age of 12, through his time at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin amid social unrest and civil rights movements, until he began teaching at the University of Toronto 45 years ago. Professor Cupchik uses this experience to note the ways in which academics have changed, namely through its current heightened professionalism and increased isolation. He highlights the importance of survival and connecting with your roots along with creating a community, or village, of learning in his office as he encourages his students to pursue real life research.
Subject: Community, Education, Employment, Faculty experience, Scarborough College, Student experience

Title: Interview with Mina Filardo
Description: Mina Filardo, a former student at UTSC, discusses her experience in the arts management program and how its uniqueness brought her to the Scarborough Campus. She looks back at her time at UTSC with fond memories as she recounts her five years there. She touches on her impressions of the campus, the closeness with her peers due to small class sizes, and her career at TVOntario following graduation.
Subject: Art, Diversity, Drama, Scarborough College, St. George campus, Student experience, Technology

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

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 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 John M. Kennedy
Description: Professor John M. Kennedy began teaching in the department of Psychology at Scarborough College in the 1972. Prof. Kennedy shares his perspective of psychology and the importance of being original as well as describing his pedagogical approaches to the subject, as seen in his creation of a “science perception fair” type of research presentation. He speaks about the changing academic and social climate of the campus over the years, along with the changing nature of education and research. Additionally, Prof. Kennedy sheds light on the reputations of differing UofT campuses while also describing the relationship of faculty, particularly those belonging to Life Sciences, with the St. George campus. 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

Title: Interview with William Graham
Description: Professor William “Bill” Graham was UTSC's first full-time Philosopher, joining what was then Scarborough College just after its early years in 1966. Teaching at the Scarborough Campus while a doctorate student at the University of Toronto, Prof. Graham was offered a position on the faculty once he successfully completed his degree in 1969. Prof. Graham was active in several campus committees regarding the development and future of the Scarborough campus. He highlights the early vision of Scarborough College as an interdisciplinary and democratic institution that was distinct from the St. George campus that was present in these committees. He also speaks of evolving academic and social climate of the campus, such as his involvement in the beginnings of a humanities program. Prof. Graham retired in 2000 (now Emeritus status), but continues to research and publish.
Subject: Campus growth, Faculty experience, Scarborough College, St. George campus

Title: Interview with Mike DeGagné
Description: Dr. Mike DeGagné was an undergraduate student at Scarborough College during the late 1970s to early 1980s. Living abroad in Kenya with family while applying to university, Dr. DeGagné decided to attend Scarborough College after examining one of the campus pamphlets provided in a Kenya office. Spending his four years in campus residences, Dr. DeGagné speaks on student life, the intimacy of the campus environment, academics, and community. In a discussion of the legacy of the “television campus”, Dr. DeGagné also describes the resources available to the students at the time and considers the merits and downfalls of digital pedagogy then and now. He also reflects on Indigeneity and the important work he did with Indigenous youth counselling after graduating. DeGagné went on to become the First Indigenous President, in Canada, of Nipissing University and as of 2020, he is the President of Yukon University.
Subject: Community, Indigeneity, Scarborough College, Student experience

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

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