Kyomi Hastings Duncan

This document presents the 2025-26 Budget Package for the Council on Student Services at the University of Toronto Scarborough, incorporating highlights from the previous year and outlining 2026-27 goals and operational plans for various departments. Key strategic areas include enhancing recreation programming, improving service delivery, reducing wait times, and strengthening capacity across Academic Advising & Career Centre, Athletics & Recreation, Health & Wellness Centre, International Student Centre, and Student Life Programs. The overall aim is to support student recruitment, retention, and success while fostering an inclusive and thriving campus community.

The University of Toronto's Strategic Initiatives portfolio supports large-scale, interdisciplinary research networks aimed at addressing global grand challenges such as climate change, social justice, and infectious diseases. This overview highlights the institution's commitment to fostering research excellence, including dedicated support for Indigenous and Black research, through extensive collaboration among faculty, staff, students, industry partners, government, and community organizations. The approach emphasizes proactive development of medical countermeasures and informed public policy, exemplified by the advanced CL3 lab and the Emerging Pandemic Infections Consortium, to ensure responsiveness to future health threats and emerging dangers.

The document details the Spring Convocation ceremony for New College: Science (A-T) in 2024. Key segments included acknowledgments of the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit, an address by the interim principal, the formal conferring of degrees to graduating scholars by the Chancellor, and a keynote address. The keynote speaker, Dr. Kathy Masar, an alumna, shared four key learnings for the graduates, emphasizing the importance of the journey over a linear path, embracing failure as a step toward success, not self-limiting based on external judgment or past failure, and cultivating personal joy to effectively serve others. The ceremony also acknowledged the pain felt by those impacted by the conflict in the Middle East while focusing on celebration and hope.

The document details the Spring Convocation ceremony for 2022 at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Key segments included an acknowledgment of the traditional land upon which the university operates, recognizing Indigenous peoples. The ceremony involved the formal admission of scholars to various degrees, referencing traditional medieval university language and providing a translation. Remarks were made by the Vice Principal, Academic and Dean, focusing on congratulating the graduating class for their perseverance during challenging times and welcoming them to the alumni family. The convocation speaker, Dr. Robin Gray, discussed the importance of collective memory, challenging dominant narratives, and the concepts of rematriation and imagining otherwise to build more desirable futures based on peace and justice. The ceremony also introduced the ceremonial inclusion of an Eagle feather bearer, which symbolizes respect, honor, strength, courage, and wisdom.

This document details the Spring 2024 Convocation ceremony for St. Michael’s College (Science; Commerce) programs. The event commenced with acknowledgments of the traditional land of the University of Toronto. Key segments included the formal Latin presentation and admission of scholars to their various degrees by the Chancellor, Dr. Rose Patten, assisted by the Vice President and Provost, Trevor Young. A convocation speaker, Donald Morrison, addressed the graduating class, offering reflections on perseverance, character, and the journey of meaning and purpose beyond academic success. The ceremony also included expressions of gratitude to families, friends, faculty, and staff, and concluded with the formal conferral of degrees.