Alumni

Our Alumni Community

The Faculty of Information will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2028. Over the years, the Faculty and its predecessors have graduated more than 10,000 students in both emerging and established information fields. Our alumni community is thriving and evolving.

We welcome our alumni back to the Faculty of Information whether they want to volunteer, mentor, attend an event, or take advantage of the many benefits the University of Toronto offers to alumni. All our graduates automatically become members of the Faculty of Information Alumni Association.

We want to engage with our alumni

At the Faculty of Information, we invite our alumni to contribute their time, talent and treasure to the university in whatever way works best for them. Attend an event, take advantage of one of our professional development opportunities, or become active in the Faculty of Information Alumni Association.

Alumni engaged with the Faculty of Information become part of and contribute to the most ambitious campaign in Canadian history. For the first time ever and as part of the Defy Gravity campaign, the University of Toronto has set a goal for alumni engagement. We are looking to inspire 2,500 members of our alumni community to get involved as volunteers, mentors, donors, participants and leaders.

The Faculty of Information is part of the University of Toronto’s Defy Gravity campaign, the most ambitious campaign in Canadian history.

Our goal is to raise $10 million and inspire 2,500 members of our alumni community to get involved.

How to get involved

Alumni News

The co-founders of Hypercare: Umar Azhar, Faculty of Information grad Albert Tai and Dr. Joseph Choi.

Alum Albert Tai’s entrepreneurial journey

Alumnus Albert Tai’s Hypercare startup was featured in the Globe and Mail this week as one of four U of T startups that are solving global challenges with innovative solutions. Tai, who graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2017, launched Hypercare that same year, together with Dr. Joseph Choi, an emergency physician and assistant […]

People at the Standing in the Doorway Exhibit. Image also features Chinese characters

MMST students, alumna contribute to Governor General’s Award-winning exhibit

Students from the Museum Studies capstone course (2022/23) played a key role in creating an exhibit that has just been named winner of the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming. Grace Kovacs, Hanjia Li, Abera Rajendran and Marie Song helped put together “Standing in the Doorway: Lived Histories and Experiences of the Chinese Community”. The exhibit drew on new oral histories, loaned […]

Esther Wan in front of UofT's Varsity Stadium.

Alumna’s gift will help students get the boost they need

Studying at the Faculty of Information changed the trajectory of Esther Wan’s life. Now, she wants to help today’s students reap the kind of benefits she did There are many ways that attending the Faculty of Information, then known as the Faculty of Library and Information Science or FLIS for short, changed Esther Wan’s life. […]

Halle Fetwi Imam portrait

Alumni Thesis: African American Ancestry Reveals

As Black History Month wraps up, we talk to Faculty of Information alumna Halle Fetwi Imam, who wrote her 2022 Master of Information thesis on the phenomenon of African Americans taking consumer DNA tests to discover their ancestry and then revealing the results in online videos. What first piqued your interest in this topic? I […]

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