Read more about the article The incoming class of 1968… 
Original Scarbourough college on St George campus. Source: https://heritage.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/heritageutsc%3A923

The incoming class of 1968… 

Every August since 1998, Beloit College has produced “The Mindset List,” a description of the social and cultural context shaping the lives of the fall incoming first year university classes in the United States.  Excerpts from the list published in 2015 for the incoming class of 2019 (named for the…

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Read more about the article An Ode to Course Enrollment Woes 
Students filling out forms in the Science Wing, possibly for course enrollment, dated to 1969. Photo sourced from the UTSC Archives Legacy Collection. https://collections.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/utsc%3A538.

An Ode to Course Enrollment Woes 

Course enrollment at UTSC for the Fall/Winter 2023/2024 term begins July 5th for first year students and July 13th and 11th, respectively, for second and third-year students. For some, these days represent when students race to ACORN and rapidly click the “enroll” button before their required courses and coveted tutorial…

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Read more about the article “I am Professor John Lee and I’m gay, and those of you who don’t like that can leave.”: UTSC Professor John Alan Lee, 1971-1999 
“Quiet Moment: John Alan Lee Controversial Professor of Sociology at Scarborough Campus, works on a piece of sculpture at Scarborough.” Photo by Alan Dunlop. Toronto Star Photograph Archive. January 15, 1984. https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/316386/quiet-moment-john-alan-lee-controversial-professor-of-soci.

“I am Professor John Lee and I’m gay, and those of you who don’t like that can leave.”: UTSC Professor John Alan Lee, 1971-1999 

When asked about memorable moments during his time as a student at Scarborough College, Anthony McWatt recounted attending a class in the 1980s where the Professor introduced himself saying, “I am Professor John Lee and I’m gay, and those of you who don’t like that can leave.” (McWatt, 2020). Lee…

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Read more about the article The Building(s) of UTSC: A Social Timeline of UTSC
Pictured above: a model of the prospective Scarborough College campus.

The Building(s) of UTSC: A Social Timeline of UTSC

Did you know that the UTSC library was housed in many locations (including the Bendale Library, in the upper levels of SW, and even in a barn) before being established in its current home in the Academic Resource Centre? Or that the Leigha Lee Browne Theatre was built on the…

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Read more about the article “<em>We’ve heard the story of “Change will come” long enough:”</em> Gender Equity at UTSC
https://www.pledgeproject.ca/plays/sweet-girl-graduate/.

We’ve heard the story of “Change will come” long enough:” Gender Equity at UTSC

Scarborough College celebrated it's twentieth anniversary in 1984, the same year the University of Toronto celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the admission of the first woman to University College, 1884.  As part of the celebrations, the Scarborough College Women's Centenary Committee sponsored a production of The Sweet Girl Graduate.[1] Written…

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Read more about the article Canada in 2000:  the future through a 1967 lens
"Canada in 2000," The Daily Star, Toronto, Ont. February 27, 1967. University of Toronto Scarborough Archives, Beckel 1966-1972 E 9-9:4

Canada in 2000:  the future through a 1967 lens

In 1967, the University College Alumnae Association asked a number of academics and other experts to discuss "what life would be like in Canada in the year 2000?"  Here is what they said: the average weekly family earnings would be $300 for a 28 hour work week, fewer people will…

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Read more about the article In memory of the Honourable David Onley…former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario with deep ties to UTSC
UTSC Photographic Services Collection, Ken Jones, Photographer. University of Toronto Scarborough 2012-001C-13-3-102

In memory of the Honourable David Onley…former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario with deep ties to UTSC

It is with sadness that we mark the passing this week of David Onley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 2007 to 2014.  Many of you will know that most recently Mr. Onley was an Associate Professor, Teaching, in the Department of Political Science here at UTSC.  But did you…

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Read more about the article Winter 1966: A Day in the life of a Scarborough College Student
David Harford, "Smoke stacks on Humanities building in the winter." UTSC Photographic Services Collection, https://collections.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/photoservices%3A530

Winter 1966: A Day in the life of a Scarborough College Student

by Amelia Ainsworth. As you walk through Excellence Hall with laptop and Tim Hortons coffee in tote, do you ever wonder what a school day was like for those graduates pictured on the wall? As we begin another winter session, perhaps you wonder what it was like for those students…

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Read more about the article Gudrun Curri: A Pathbreaking Career
Portrait of Gudrun Curri

Gudrun Curri: A Pathbreaking Career

Dr. Gudrun Curri was University of Toronto Scarborough’s first female non-academic Registrar. After departing Scarborough College in the late 1980s, Dr. Curri pursued graduate studies and joined the Management faculty at Dalhousie. She passed in September 2022.   In 1973, Gudrun Curri was working as an administrator in Simcoe Hall when…

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Read more about the article ‘Aztec Temple,’ ‘Fallout Shelter,’ Or… Reputation Starter? The Tale of UTSC’s Architect, John Andrews 
The architects of UTSC: John Andrews is pictured in the centre alongside landscape architect Michael Hough (left) and architect-planner Michael Hugo-Brunt (right).

‘Aztec Temple,’ ‘Fallout Shelter,’ Or… Reputation Starter? The Tale of UTSC’s Architect, John Andrews 

Terms such as ‘Aztec Temple,’ from the Toronto Daily Star, and ‘Fallout Shelter,’ from Dr. D. Abbey, were a few that were displayed on the pages of Marooned Christmas ‘67 edition to describe the appearance of the original buildings of UTSC. At the same time, the design of the campus…

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