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Interview with Joe Jagdeo
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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.
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Diversity, Education, Housing, Immigration, Scarborough College, Student experience
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Interview with Leslie Chan
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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.
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Community, Education, Faculty experience, Student experience, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus
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Interview with Shirley Criscione
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Shirley Criscione shares her student experiences as one of the first graduates of Scarborough College in 1968. Shirley highlights how the campus culture was during those years, particularly the impact of having such a small student body (less than 200 students). The campus community was tight knit, where "everybody knew everybody." Shirley also recalls how the larger society was reflected on campus, particularly the roles that women took, the demographics of the student body, what students were expected to wear, and even the normalcy of smoking at the time.
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Buildings, Education, Facilities, Student experience, Transportation
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Interview with Elliott Schwartz
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Elliott Schwartz, a graduate of UTSC (1969), discusses the social, academic and administrative culture of the campus.
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Buildings, Drama, Extra-curricular activities, Facilities, Student experience
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Interview with Paul Harpley
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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.
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Activism, Architecture, Campus growth, Community, Employment, Environmentalism, Scarborough College, Student experience, Transportation
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Interview with Gary Sands
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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.
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Community, Extra-curricular activities, Housing, Student experience
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Interview with Kelvin Sealey
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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.
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Diversity, Drama, Housing, Student experience
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