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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 Jeff Rybak
Description: Jeff Rybak, a graduate of UTSC, discusses the campus' student and academic culture during the early 2000s. He touches upon his life as a student leader and how the role has shaped his university experience and how he had interacted with its faculty. He also explains how his time at UTSC has influenced his life, created lifelong ties, and inspired his career choices.
Subject: Community, Diversity, Extra-curricular activities, Leadership, Student experience, Transportation, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

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 Frank Prato
Description: Frank Prato talks about his experience living in the Scarborough community and attending Scarborough College.
Subject: Buildings, Facilities, Immigration, Student experience, Transportation

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 Gary Sands
Description: Gary Sands, a graduate of UTSC, reflects upon student life on campus during the 1970s, his time as student council president and the larger Scarborough community.
Subject: Community, Extra-curricular activities, Housing, Student experience

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 Anthony McWatt
Description: Tony McWatt immigrated to Canada from Guyana during the 1980s to attend Scarborough College as an undergraduate student. He reflects on his both exciting and painful experiences as an international student and the ways in which the sense of community at Scarborough College helped him navigate feelings of isolation in a new country. Tony recounts his time as the president of the Afro-Asian and Caribbean Students Association (ACSA), the Cultural Commissioner of the campus, and SCSU President. He also highlights the initiatives he was involved in while he held these positions, such as arranging a multi-campus sports day with other Caribbean students association and proposing the Student Centre.
Subject: Community, Culture, Immigration, Student experience

Title: Interview with Leslie Chan
Description: Leslie Chan discusses his history at UTSC as an undergraduate student, teaching assistant, and later professor. He begins by discussing what drew him to the campus and his relationship with faculty, and he also talks about the school’s student clubs. Professor Chan also touches upon his experience in residence, as well as living in the Scarborough community. He also reflects on how UTSC, in terms of its library, study spaces, and services, has changed over the years.
Subject: Community, Education, Faculty experience, Student experience, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

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