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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 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

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 Barry Freeman
Description: Professor Barry Freeman discusses his experience as a student at UTSC in the 1990s and the journey he has taken to get to where he is now. Currently a UTSC faculty member, administrator and chair of the Arts, Culture and Media department, Freeman also reflects about the ways in which his perspective of the campus, higher education, and the overall community of Scarborough has evolved more broadly.
Subject: Community, Diversity, Drama, Education, Extra-curricular activities, Faculty experience, Student experience

Title: Interview with Wayne Enright
Description: Prof. Wayne Enright discusses his experience teaching at UTSC and establishing a Computer Science program on campus. He touches upon how the education system and high schools may prepare students and how the experience of first year students in the computer science program is, as well as how the university campuses compare.
Subject: Education, Faculty experience, St. George campus, Technology, 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 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 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 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

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