The History of UTSC Project
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The collections housed on this site include blogs, audiograms, and video shorts conceived and produced by members of our research team, as well as a selection of the oral history interviews that we have conducted over the years. These materials are searchable by format, theme, and tag, which can be filtered using the search tool in the left-hand sidebar below.
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 she was approached to apply […]
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, Administration, Feminism, Women
October 18, 2022
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 was praised in the architectural […]
Tags: 1960s, Architecture, Buildings and Facilities, Campus
August 11, 2022
As tuition fees continue to rise every year, student loan debt becomes more difficult to manage; the recent concerns with cost of living and the previous 2019 changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) aren’t making it any easier. Back in 2019, under Ford’s government, these changes included the removal of free tuition for […]
Tags: 1960s, 2010s, Accessibility, Activism, Politics, Students
July 18, 2022
Nestled in the quiet eastern end of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Scarborough has grown dramatically over the years: from an Indigenous gathering ground to a nineteenth-century colonial township, the city is now home to a vibrant, culturally diverse community that has allowed Scarborough to develop a unique identity of its own. This identity can […]
Tags: 2000s, 2010s, Buildings and Facilities, Community, Courses, Faculty, Students
April 8, 2021
“… let us accept Scarab, ugly and venomous though it certainly seemed when we first visited it last July, looking forward to the novelty, beauty and peace of our proper home in Scarborough where, ‘exempt from public haunt’, we shall indeed find ‘Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good […]
Tags: 1980s, 2010s, Buildings and Facilities, Campus, Environment, Faculty, Students, Technology
March 19, 2021
The Black Panther Party (BPP) came to Scarborough College to inspire a Black revolution. “Black is beautiful”, they declared to Scarborough College’s predominantly white student population in March 1970. Six members of the BPP from Chicago took the stage in the Meeting Place in front of a large group of curious students to give a talk on their activist movement — and particularly, the politics of higher education in North America (The Willowdale Mirror, “What’s […]
Tags: 1970s, Activism, BIPOC, Leadership, Politics, Students
August 20, 2020
Arguably no situation has thrown postsecondary students and universities across Canada into as much confusion as the current COVID-19 pandemic. In an attempt to limit the spread of the virus over the past few months, most, if not all, of Canada’s major universities urged their students to move out of on-campus residences, including the University […]
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Activism, Buildings and Facilities, Campus Growth, Housing, Students
August 11, 2020
Do you recognize the landscape presented in the aerial photograph presented above? No? Take a closer look. Give up? This is an aerial landscape shot of Highland Creek community and campus land prior to Scarborough College’s construction in 1964 (photograph courtesy of the Scarborough Historical Society and Archives). With a current student population of nearly 13,000 and seemingly endless new building projects, it might be difficult to imagine a time in which our campus and […]
Tags: 1960s, Campus Growth, Environment
May 28, 2020
In 1984, thirty-six of Scarborough Colleges’ sociology students enrolled in SOCB24F: Sociology of Education; Primary and Secondary Levels, refused to write their end-of-term exam which would make up 30% of their final mark (Donlevy 1984)! According to the students, to comply with writing an exam meant going against everything they were taught by their […]
Tags: 1980s, Activism, Administration, Faculty, Students
May 19, 2020
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re lucky to have online libraries available for our entertainment needs from the comfort of our own homes. In fact, can you imagine what it’d be like without a library, especially if you were a student? Scarborough College didn’t have a proper library until 1982, upon the opening of Vincent W. […]
Tags: 1970s, 1980s, Activism, Buildings and Facilities, Campus Growth, Students
April 24, 2020
