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‘Community, Authenticity, Advocacy, and Celebration’: ComSoc candidates talk change in faculty

Written on February 4, 2022. Posted in News.

Election season continues as the Commerce Society (ComSoc) prepares to elect a new executive. Team RMK, comprised of Presidential candidate, Tara Rezvan Comm ’23, Vice-Presidential candidate (Student Affairs) Amanda Morwick Comm ’23, and Vice-Presidential candidate (Operations) Ethan Kibel Comm...

Queen’s alum listed in ‘Forbes 30 under 30’

Written on January 14, 2022. Posted in News.

“Wine was not one of my interests,” David Kong, Comm ’14, said in an interview with The Journal. Kong got his start in entrepreneurship during his undergrad. This year, he’s being named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in the food and drinks industry. Kong had just turned 19 when he first tried wine at...

Commerce club hosts case competition for local Indigenous business

Written on October 1, 2021. Posted in News.

On Sept. 26, the Queen’s Commerce Corporate Competition (Q3C) held a case competition in partnership with Tipi Moza. Tipi Moza is an organization that works towards affordable housing for First Nation, Metis, and Inuit families in the Kingston area. “In case competitions, students are paired off...

Executive Director of Commerce program steps down

Written on June 11, 2021. Posted in News.

The Smith School of Business will soon begin its search for a new executive director of the Commerce program. Current Executive Director of Commerce Lori Garnier is stepping down and pursuing a new leadership role. In an email to The Journal, Brenda Brouwer, interim Dean of Smith School of Business,...

Bursting and leaving the commerce bubble

Written on April 2, 2021. Posted in Lifestyle, Postscript.

Around this time three years ago, I was anxiously awaiting my acceptance to Queen’s Commerce. At the time, I had already been accepted to every other university I applied to, and I was terrified of being rejected—despite my 96 per cent average and wealth of extracurriculars. At my high school, students...

How the Smith Transparency Project is inspiring change through data

Written on February 5, 2021. Posted in Features.

In the wake of Instagram account ‘Stolen by Smith’, there was harsh criticism from those who questioned the credibility of the anecdotal evidence the account relied on. Commerce students were missing empirical evidence to support the patterns demonstrated by the page when trying to understand the...

‘A safe haven’: The impact of Stolen by Smith, as told by QTBIPOC students and faculty

Written on July 18, 2020. Posted in Features.

This piece uses “Queer & Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (QTBIPOC)” to refer to the experiences of LGBTQ+ and racialized students. We acknowledge this term is not universal. On July 3, the Stolen by Smith Instagram account launched. Inspired by Black at Harvard Law, Stolen by Smith...

ComSoc releases Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Course of Action

Written on July 11, 2020. Posted in News, Student Politics.

Aiming to be more transparent about its efforts to support marginalized students, the Commerce Society (ComSoc) released an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Course of Action for the 2020-21 year. Published on July 8, the EDI action plan includes several items the Society intends to pursue in...

QUIC’s investments in fossil fuels outweigh investments in renewables

Written on February 28, 2020. Posted in News.

The Queen’s University Investment Counsel (QUIC), a coveted launchpad for finance hopefuls in the Commerce program, holds more investments in fossil fuels than renewables. The counsel manages $1.4 million in assets and its analysts manage real portfolios—the club holds investments in companies like...

Kingston aims to keep graduating Queen’s students

Written on March 22, 2019. Posted in News.

The City of Kingston is asking Queen’s commerce students how to keep graduates in the city. A study spearheaded by two fourth-year commerce students seeks to understand students’ perspectives on employment opportunities in Kingston. Ioana Tabra and Yangchen Zhang, both Comm ’19, are members of Queen’s...

Queen’s students are finance podcasters for change

Written on January 25, 2019. Posted in News.

A group of five undergraduate students say financial literacy is lacking and have started a podcast to remedy it. The XtraCredit podcast is spearheaded by Robert Baluta, Comm ’21, and Emily Liang, Comm ‘20, and was created in collaboration with Queen’s Seminar on Financial Literacy (QSFL) and Students...

The elephant in Goodes Hall

Written on February 15, 2018. Posted in Lifestyle.

It’s missing that last shot when there are 20 seconds left in the game. It’s hearing the words, “You were an excellent candidate but unfortunately…” as a precursor to what’s sure to be a rejection email. It’s those slip-ups in an important presentation. It’s failure. It’s that heart-wrenching, stomach-knotting...

Commerce Frosh Week: from probation to commendation

Written on July 31, 2017. Posted in In Focus.

Following two year’s worth of changes made to their week’s events, training and culture, Commerce’s faculty orientation week has been cleared of their probationary status. This probation period came after the Senate Orientation Activities Review Board (SOARB) voiced hazing concerns in a memo sent...

Fall of humanities may mean rise of mixed education

Written on March 7, 2017. Posted in Editorials.

With more universities moulding the humanities with business and STEM, many students may no longer have to decide between education for the sake of knowledge and education for job security. Over recent years, the declining interest in humanities degrees hasn’t changed, nor is it changing anytime soon,...

Investigation underway for potential academic integrity breaches

Written on November 11, 2016. Posted in News.

A class of second-year students all received 100 per cent on their midterm exams this October. The Smith School of Business is now investigating any potential breaches of academic integrity. According to Commerce Society President Bhavik Vyas, the professor reused an old midterm from three years...

Elective Initiative directed at Smith School of Business

Written on October 21, 2016. Posted in News.

It’s called the Elective Initiative, explained Queen’s alumni Max Townsend and Yuting Pan, and it’s intended to prepare students in the Smith School of Business for the real world. The pair both graduated this spring, beginning careers in New York shortly thereafter. In July, they co-wrote a commentary...

Queen’s Entrepreneur’s Competition hosts 60-second business pitch challenge

Written on October 21, 2016. Posted in News.

This Wednesday, 20 students each had 60 seconds to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges. At the stake was $250. Taking place in Goodes Hall, the Queen’s Entrepreneur’s Competition (QEC) held their taster event before a keynote speaker for participants and observers. The winner, Marnus...

AMS Assembly at City Hall sees OUSA visitors

Written on October 6, 2016. Posted in News.

On Oct 5, the annual Town Hall AMS Assembly was held at City Hall in Kingston. The meeting began with guest speaker, Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), followed by statements by members, approval of motions, and a short discussion period. OUSA The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance...

Ending Commerce rankings breeds a better environment

Written on October 6, 2016. Posted in Editorials.

Public judgement doesn’t encourage healthy competition, but negative attitudes. The Commerce Society assembly discussed last week that the faculty’s ranking system — which was solely driven by grades and publicized to the student body — was coming to an end. Last year, ComSoc’s Academics Commissioner...

Commerce program to terminate ranking system

Written on October 4, 2016. Posted in News.

After taking a hard look at the stress and anticipation experienced by Commerce students each year, the Faculty of Commerce has decided to eliminate the public ranking system that previously pitted peers against each other. On Sunday, Oct. 2, an assembly of the Commerce Society (ComSoc), discussed...

One year of Smith

Written on September 30, 2016. Posted in News.

This Saturday marks one year since Queen’s School of Business took on its Smith label, after Principal Daniel Woolf announced a $50 million endowment on October 1, 2015 in Goodes Hall. The faculty’s new namesake and donor Stephen J.R. Smith, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of First National Financial...

Faculty of Arts and Science cuts credit allotment

Written on August 2, 2016. Posted in News.

At Queen’s, students have historically been allotted 24 units of outside-faculty courses towards their graduation requirements, as well as one elective within the Faculty of Law. A new limit was imposed in April by the Arts and Science Faculty Board. However, a lack of transparency around the change...

Know your Frosh Weeks

Written on August 2, 2016. Posted in In Focus.

Of course you’re excited for your Orientation Week, but how much do you know about the others? Queen’s runs nine, unique Orientation Weeks that welcome new students each year, frosh or not. Each Orientation Week immerses students in both school and faculty tradition. Led by passionate student volunteers,...

New horizons for the Smith School of Business

Written on October 2, 2015. Posted in News.

Queen’s has announced that the School of Business will be renamed the Stephen J.R. Smith School of Business in recognition of the unprecedented $50 million donated by Stephen Smith. Principal and Vice-Chancellor Daniel Woolf unveiled the name at a ceremony in Goodes Hall on Thursday. “I am a historian...

Business students forgo on-campus recruitment

Written on October 2, 2015. Posted in News.

As September begins, so does a rush of on-campus recruitment (OCR) for fourth-year Queen’s commerce students — but some are choosing to forgo the program for independent job searches. Recruitment season spans the first two months of the fall term. It typically begins during Orientation Week with mock...

School of Business renamed following $50 million donation

Written on October 1, 2015. Posted in News.

Shnarped in the show

Written on January 31, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Dustin Sproat grew up in Red Deer, played hockey in England and was enlightened in Nashville. The former professional hockey player arrived in Kingston last Thursday to appear on a speakers’ panel at the ninth annual Queen’s Sports Industry Conference (QSIC). A former captain of the Princeton University...

Inside the war room

Written on January 28, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Hunkered down in a Goodes Hall breakout room, the Houston Rockets have $21 million to spend. Four team executives huddled around a table last Saturday, knowing their basketball club had an hour to fulfill four objectives: finding a point guard, a power forward, a top defensive player and a veteran...

Conference audibles

Written on January 24, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Like the star athletes they want to work alongside, Russell Reeves and Vaanan Thiru are game changers. They’re the co-chairs of this year’s Queen’s Sports Industry Conference (QSIC), an annual three-day event run by the Commerce Society that attracts delegates from across Ontario and speakers from...

Conferences on campus: QBET

Written on October 7, 2013. Posted in Lifestyle.

What could one hundred free pitas have to do with today’s business environment? At the Queen’s Conference on the Business Environment Today (QBET), there was much to learn from the CEO of Pita Pit at the kickoff taster event and other keynote speakers invited to share their career experience and industry...

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