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Welcome to the 2000-2001 academic year. I would like to welcome new students to the University of Toronto at Scarborough - we hope that your experience here will match or exceed your expectations. To those returning, welcome back.
The University is a community of people who work together to try to improve their understanding of the world and of the human condition, and you are an important part of this community. Without our undergraduates, we would not be a university.
Your professors are active researchers and scholars
and many have won awards and international recognition for their
contributions to their field. They are well qualified both to
introduce the beginning undergraduate to the basic concepts and
issues of their discipline, and to encourage the senior student
in research and ideas that are at the leading edge of their areas
of specialization.
But teaching is not a one-way communication. Your learning and your intellectual growth depend on your own active engagement with the material and with your instructors. You should also know that teaching undergraduates is part of the further development of your professors. The process of explaining and re-explaining the subject matter leads to an evolution of courses over time and frequently provokes professors to question and reconsider their earlier understanding of it, sometimes influencing the future direction of their own research
I hope that you make the most of the opportunity to pursue your studies here. At its best, the university experience is one that transforms your view of the world, of life, and of yourself. Whatever subjects you choose to study, I wish every one of you this experience, and every success.
Professor Joan Foley
Acting Principal and Dean
University of Toronto at Scarborough
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