University of Toronto Scarborough Customer Service Phone Number

Phone Number of University of Toronto Scarborough is (416)287-7529 .

The University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC also known as U of T Scarborough or UTSC is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto located in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1964, University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC was established as Scarborough College, a satellite campus of the Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto.

The University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC undertook extensive renovations of the Miller Lash mansion, which became known as the principal's residence. Scarborough College was initially planned and designed as a television college that makes widespread use of television for teaching purposes. Television production facilities and infrastructure were built into the building structure. Professors would record their lectures and broadcast them on the television screens during class time, eliminating the need for instructors to come in and allowing greater flexibility for them.

However, the television experiment was unsuccessful as students were not satisfied with the lack of interaction with lecturers, and the plan was abandoned by 1967. The television screens are used by instructors for video work in their lecture materials, such as showing film clips or slides while the central broadcasting area became the Leigha Lee Browne Theatre. In 1972, the campus was reorganized as a separately governed division of the university, and took the name of University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC Campus in 1983. By 1996, the name had become the University of Toronto at Scarborough. More recently, the "at" was dropped and is now called the University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC. Many signs still bear the old name. Those affiliated with the university still fondly call it "UTSC".

The land on which the University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC now rests was purchased in 1911 by Toronto businessman Miller Lash, who developed the site into his summer estate complete with a mansion. The estate was acquired by insurance broker E. L. McLean in 1944 after Lash's death. In 1963, the University of Toronto purchased the 202-acre property from McLean for about $650,000, and construction of university buildings on the site began in July of the following year. The campus of University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC was opened as the Scarborough College in 1964 as part of the university's eastern expansion, mainly as an institute for studies in the arts and sciences. By 1983, the campus was given the prefix "University of Toronto" as it expanded into a mid-sized university.

University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC is partnered with the nearby Centennial College's Ellesmere campus, providing students with joint-venture programs, particularly in the computer sciences field. The campus is also one of the only universities in Southern Ontario to provide cooperative education enrolment options to students in the fields of management and biological sciences. The campus is currently undergoing expansion with the construction of the new Instructional Centre, set to open in 2011, and a new state-of-the-art aquatics and athletics centre which will be used for the upcoming 2015 Pan American Games.

The campus of University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC spans 300 acres (120 ha) of woodlands, trails, and fields, resting on a significant stretch of Highland Creek. The main building was designed by architect John Andrews in a Brutalist architectural style and completed in 1964. There is no free parking available on campus. Parking permits cost upwards of $851.87 for a yearly permit. Public transportation is provided by the Toronto Transit Commission and GO Transit.

In University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC traditionally, the three main academic buildings are the Humanities Wing, Science Wing and Bladen Wing. The three buildings are connected, allowing for students to travel from one building to another indoor during the cold winters. To accommodate the double cohort and other factors contributing to enrollment increases, massive construction has occurred as part of a $150 million capital expansion program, with a portion of the funding coming from the U of T Enrolment Growth Fund. The Academic Resources Centre (ARC), which includes a renovated library and a 500-seat lecture theatre; Joan Foley Hall, an apartment style residence; and the Doris McCarthy Gallery opened in 2004. The next year saw the launch of the Management Building and the Student Centre. The Student Centre was funded with $14 million by students, the largest donation in the University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC history. It received a Green Design award from the City of Toronto for the green efforts made during its construction. Eighteen tones of steel from the demolished gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum had been used.

As part of University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC partnership with Centennial College, the Centennial HP Science & Technology Centre opened in fall 2004 at Morningside and Ellesmere, allowing joint degree students to travel less should they opt to use the resources of both the college and the university. The Arts & Administrative building opened in fall 2005 and now functions as the main welcome area to the campus. The building also houses the art and music studios as well as the Principal's office. The valley below University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC, accessible from Old Kingston Road, is home to a baseball stadium for University of Toronto's Varsity Baseball, which opened in September 2006. A number of other additions and upgrades were recently completed, including a new cardio room and updated athletic facilities, a new LGBTQ lounge, as well as improved teaching facilities, study spaces, and lecture halls. In 2007, an extension to the Science Wing was constructed and opened in October 2008. This extension connects through the old lobby of Leigha Lee Browne Theatre which also had renovations completed in September 2008.

The campus of University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC is also in the process of significantly enhancing its Wi-Fi coverage, and is concurrently installing hundreds of additional power outlets to accommodate the exponential increase in laptop use by students. Many new power outlets were seamlessly installed in the S-Wing in February 2009, providing much-needed electricity to the hundreds of students that study their daily but who were without a single power plug up until then. University of Toronto Scarborough - UTSC has aggressively undertaken an initiative to facilitate increased study space for students and power outlets for laptops, both issues needing significant attention since roughly 2005 onwards.

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University of Toronto Scarborough Address

The address of University of Toronto Scarborough is 1265 Military Trail, Toronto ON, Canada M1C 1A4.

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