The Board of Trustees met for an open session on March 5 over Zoom.
Principal’s Report
In his report, Principal Patrick Deane acknowledged the work of staff, alumni, and the broader Queen’s community under the restraints of pandemic life and looked ahead to what he deemed the “light at the end of...
As Queen’s continues to admit the class of 2024, they’re also monitoring the impact COVID-19 will have on actual enrolment in the fall.
In a report to senate on April 14, the Senate Committee on Academic Development (SCAD) acknowledged the context of enrolment has shifted “dramatically” as a consequence...
After Principal Daniel Woolf released a statement to the student body on Monday, regarding the University’s reaction to American President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, Woolf talked about possible next steps with The Journal.
Starting off, Woolf...
“I live in the combat zone,” Geoffrey Smith, Queen’s professor emeritus, noted on Wednesday morning while walking around his block at Barrie and William Streets.
This week, Smith — who taught physical education, health education and history at Queen’s for many years — launched an initiative he calls...
Elaine Power
Since 2004, I have been teaching HLTH 101 — Social Determinants of Health — here at Queen’s.
The size of HLTH 101 was stable for many years at 400 and then 450 students, drawn from all over the University.
In the summer of 2013, I received a frantic message from our undergraduate coordinator...
Darts
Men’s Issues group poisons debate: If the Men’s Issues Awareness Society hoped to foster intellectual dialogue on gender issues, they failed. The speaker MIAS invited, Janice Fiamengo, misrepresented feminism and only served to polarize debate and inflame tensions.
The Underground rebrand: The...
As a result of increased undergraduate enrollment, 98 first-year students will move into the JDUC in September after plans to turn the building’s graduate spaces into undergraduate rooms were approved.
In April Senate recognized the two per cent increase in applications to Queen’s for September 2012....