Our project attempts to push back at rigid notions of the “institutional history” by foregrounding the unique experiences of individuals who have been part of the UTSC community at a given point in time. We believe that these experiences are as important to the history of UTSC as the more standard facts of the institution’s establishment and growth. Our findings, based on this research, are presented in a myriad of ways on this site. Alongside these digital materials, we have also been engaged in the development of a series of “research notes”, or longform critical essays, that examine what we feel are some of the most significant themes relating to the history of UTSC. These notes combine insights pulled from interviews in our oral history collection and documentary materials sourced from a variety of archives, and ultimately shine a light on important facets of our collective past that are otherwise rarely included in traditional accounts of the institution’s history; in this way, our project works to complicate the way we think about UTSC and the history of higher education in Canada at large. 

All our research notes are open-access, and can be downloaded from this page using the links below.