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{{Infobox University
|name = Queen's University|image_name = QueensUniversityCrest.png
|motto = ''Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas''
(
Latin, "Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times.")
[1]
|established =
October 16,
1841[2]
|type =
Public
|chancellor =
A. Charles Baillie
|principal =
Karen R. Hitchcock
|city =
Kingston
|state =
Ontario
|country =
Canada
|undergrad = 13,500
[3]
|postgrad = 2,900
|staff = 1,031
|free_label = Library
|free = 2,000,000 volumes
[4]
|campus =
Urban, 57
ha (141
acres)
|sports =
Golden Gaels 1
|mascot =
Boo Hoo the Bear1
|colours = Gold, Red, and Blue
[5]
|affiliations =
G13
|endowment =
$660 million
[6]' class='wikiexternal' target='_blank'>
'Queen's University', generally referred to simply as 'Queen's', is a coeducational, non-sectarian, highly selective
public university located in
Kingston,
Ontario,
Canada. Queen's University was founded on
October 16,
1841, as Queen’s College.
2 The first classes were held
March 7,
1842 with 13 students and 2 professors.
1
Queen's was the first university to grant degrees in the
province of Canada, was the first university west of the
maritime provinces to admit women, and to form a student government.
101 It hosted the country's first session of Parliament.
[7]
The Queen's founders modelled their nascent college after the
University of Edinburgh for the Scottish university's tradition of academic freedom, authority, and moral responsibility.
[8]
Queen's has made great efforts to become an international institution; there are currently 94 countries represented in the student body.
3 Beyond the Kingston campus, the university has an International Study Centre at
Herstmonceux Castle,
East Sussex,
England, formerly the home of the
Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Institution
Theological Hall
Queen's currently has approximately 13,500 full-time undergraduate students and 2,900 graduate students.
3 The average entrance grade for 2006 was 87%.
3 Queen's University requires applicants to submit a Personal Statement of Experience (PSE) with their grades.
Queen's was the first degree-granting institution in the
United Province of Canada.
Queen's today has 17 faculties and schools, listed below:
★ The
Faculty of Arts and Science which, in addition to offering a wide variety of social sciences, humanities, natural and physical sciences, languages, fine arts, and hosts the following schools:
★
★ The
Queen's School of Music
★
★ The
Queen's School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
★
★ The
Queen's School of Computing
★
★ The
Queen's School of Environmental Studies
★
★ The
Queen's School of English
★ The
Faculty of Applied Science
★ The
Faculty of Health Sciences which is divided into:
★
★ The
Queen's School of Medicine
★
★ The
Queen's School of Nursing
★
★ The
Queen's School of Rehabilitation Therapy
★ The
Faculty of Law
★ The
Faculty of Education
Queen's features three schools that are, in effect, full faculties through their relative autonomy:
★
Queen's School of Business
★ Queen's School of Graduate Studies and Research, (includes the School of Policy Studies and the
School of Urban and Regional Planning)
★
Queen's Theological College (affiliate)
A defining characteristic of Queen's is the school's focus on the "broader learning environment".
[9] Queen's recognizes its responsibility to educate students both in and out of the classroom, and given its residential character (85% of students live within a 15-minute walk to
campus; 90% of first-year students live in residence).
[10] Queen’s students spend much of their non-class hours on campus. "When the academic day ends, students don’t go their separate ways, but stay in each other’s company, in libraries, residences, gyms, pubs and other venues. The integrated life intensifies a student’s relationship with other students and with the University." This provides the perfect environment for the countless
extracurricular opportunities to which students have access, allowing them to gain leadership, teamwork, and high-level work experience during their time at Queen's.
Prominent student organisations at Queen's include the
Alma Mater Society, the oldest student government in Canada which hires over 500 Queen's students; the Society of Graduate and Professional Students; the
Queen's Bands, the largest and oldest student marching band in Canada; the ''
Queen's Journal'', one of the oldest student newspapers in Canada and the oldest current publication at Queen's; ''
Golden Words'', a weekly humour newspaper;
Queen's First Aid; and the
Queen's Players, a unique
improvisational
sketch comedy troupe.
[11] There are over 300 more student clubs, organisations, and societies at Queen's.
Students and faculty
Queen's University is committed to providing an 'intimate learning environment', accordingly the administration has no current plans to increase the size of the incoming undergraduate classes. Queen's currently has 13,583 undergraduate students.
3
'Domestic Undergraduate Student Tuition'
[12] ''Based on normal full-time course load for 2006-2007 academic year''
★ Faculty of Applied Science
★
★ All Years: $7,030.00 (
CAD)
★ Faculty of Arts and Science; Faculty of Education; School of Computing; School of Music; School of Nursing; School of Kinesiology and Health Studies
★
★ First registered in programme in 2006: $4,382.00 (CAD)
★
★ All others: $4,361.00 (CAD)
★ School of Business (Commerce)
★
★ First registered in programme in 2006: $8,910.00 (CAD)
★
★ Year Two: $10,350.01 (CAD)
★
★ Year Three: $9,060.00 (CAD)
★
★ Year Four: $8,154.00 (CAD)
★ Faculty of Law
★
★ First registered in programme in 2006: $9,678.00 (CAD)
★
★ All others: $9,319.00 (CAD)
★ School of Medicine
★
★ First registered in programme in 2006: $14,175.00 (CAD)
★
★ All others: $14,040.00 (CAD)
★ Queen's Theological College
★
★ All years: $4,447.90 (CAD)
'Academic staff (fall 2004)'
★ 2,293 (full-time faculty, other teachers and researchers including part-time)
★ 2,435 (Other Staff)
'Alumni'
★ 129,615 in 158 countries
[13]
History
Plaque unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen to commemorate the granting of Queen's University's Royal Charter.
Queen's First Principal Rev. Dr. Thomas Liddell.
Queen's University was founded on
October 16,
1841, under its first principal,
Thomas Liddell, who arrived in Kingston from
Scotland carrying the
Royal Charter of
Queen Victoria, establishing Queen's College as an educational institution. Originally affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland (see the
Presbyterian Church in Canada as it was called after 1875), it was established to instruct youth in various branches of sciences and literature.
The university became a secular institution in 1912 and, in that year, Principal
Daniel Miner Gordon oversaw the drafting of a new university constitution. Queen's Theological College remained in the control of the
Presbyterian Church in Canada, until 1925, when it joined the
United Church of Canada, where it remains today.
The first
student government in Canada was established at Queen's in 1858 in the form of the
Dialectic Society, which is known today as the
Alma Mater Society.
11
Queen's celebrated its
sesquicentennial anniversary in 1991 and received a visit from
Charles, Prince of Wales and his then-wife
Diana to mark the occasion.
1
Campus
Being one of the oldest universities in Canada, Queen's has a beautiful campus most renowned for the old
limestone buildings and unique
Romanesque Revival and
neo-gothic architecture. Indeed, several Queen's buildings are over a century old, including Summerhill (1839), Old Medical (1858), Etherington House (1879), Theological Hall, (1880), Carruthers Hall (1890), Victoria School (1892), Ontario Hall (1903), Kingston Hall (1903), Grant Hall (1905), and Kathleen Ryan Hall (1907).
[14] The main campus contains most of the teaching and administrative buildings packed into a relatively small space; walking time from one end of campus to the other is approximately 10 minutes. Adjacent to the campus, and within the same walking distance, is the
Kingston General Hospital which is affiliated with Queen's, and is a designated
National Historic Site as it served as the location of the first parliament of the Province of Canada from 1841-1843. There is also a smaller expansion known as "West Campus" which is approximately 1 km west of the main campus limits. The West Campus holds additional student residences, Duncan McArthur Hall (which houses the Faculty of Education), and
Richardson Memorial Stadium (home of the
Queen's Golden Gaels).
Although the campus is relatively small and the buildings densely packed, there are many open green spaces and deciduous trees that create a park-like atmosphere. The campus is currently undergoing extensive upgrades and beautification along University Avenue, the main thoroughfare, to increase safety and aesthetic appeal.
The campus is on the shore of
Lake Ontario and has easy access to the lake front park, a favourite spot for students to relax and unwind when the weather permits. The campus is also located approximately 10 minutes' walk from the city's downtown core where many shops, restaurants, and bars are found.
International Study Centre
The International Study Centre (ISC) is housed in
Herstmonceux Castle, which was donated to Queen's in 1993 by alumnus
Alfred Bader.
[15] Herstmonceux Castle is in southern
England and provides a base for field studies by its students throughout Northern England, and the European continent. The courses available range from
English Literature to
Geography to
Mathematics, with many of the courses specially designed to take advantage of the location of the ISC. Instructors and students are not exclusively from Queen's, but attend from across Canada, the
United States,
Mexico,
Europe,
Japan,
China,
Scandinavia and elsewhere.
Students attend classes Monday through Thursday and are encouraged to use their three day weekend to experience Europe. Field trips are required for all courses, although some are more field trip heavy than others (e.g. history and art history). There are also two non course-specific field trips that are included in the programme fees. In the past, the first semester trip has been to
Scotland and
Northern England, while the second semester trip has been to
Paris,
Brussels and
Bruges.
Herstmonceux Castle is famous for its gardens and grounds, as well as its proximity to the old
Royal Observatory but students at the ISC can also enjoy a small gymnasium and a student pub within the Castle called the ''Headless Drummer''.
Queen's Centre
In October 2004, Queen's University announced a $230-million plan to create a sports and recreation complex called the "Queen's Centre" over two
city blocks. It is expected to take more than ten years from design to completion.
The plans include the building of a six-lane track, an Olympic-sized arena, 25-metre pool, eight basketball courts, substantially more gathering and meeting space than is currently available, fitness, aerobic, locker and food space, and a new home for the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies (formerly School of Physical and Health Education).
The university has also unveiled a slogan for the centre, which is "Where mind, body and spirit come together".
The project will be completed in three phases, the earliest of which is scheduled for completion in September 2009. This first phase will include the new Varsity Gymnasium, Aquatic Centre, Fitness and Weight Centre and School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.
Rankings
A Queen's School of Business press release mentions that "Queen’s MBA has been ranked #1 for the second time in a row by ''
BusinessWeek'' magazine’s influential biannual ranking of MBA programmes outside the US, with five Canadian schools dominating the top ten. The last time the ranking was released by the US publication, in 2004, Queen’s School of Business also commanded the top spot". Additionally, Queen's was ranked among the best universities in both the US and Canada, comparable to the American Ivy League universities, in the Fiske college guide. Queen's was ranked second in Canada in the Medical-Doctoral category of the 2006 edition of the
Maclean's University Rankings despite refusing to participate in the latest survey along with twenty-three other universities, over concerns with the data collection and analysis. Additionally, the 2007 edition of
Macleans concluded Queen's to be most selective Canadian University, based on sheer statistical numbers. Macleans completed the survey using
Access to Information requests, ranking Queen's below only
McGill University.
[16][17] Queen's has the greatest rate of university student retention in Canada at 96.6%. Queen's University also received an 'A' grade in the
Globe and Mail University Report Card. The university was ranked 176th in the world in the 2006 ''
Times Higher Education Supplement'' rankings, a jump from 261st in 2005.
[18] Queen's University has 148
Canada Millennium Scholarship holders, the most attending any Canadian university.
[19] In addition, 54 Queen's Alumni are
Rhodes Scholarship holders.
[20] Finally, despite its very small size, Queen's University has ranked 3rd in Canada in a ranking made according to Internet popularity.
[21]
Sports, clubs, and traditions
Frosh Groups denoting a specific theme: an integral part of the team-building experience, which is of paramount importance for incoming first year students.
Alumni
The Queen's University Alumni Association was founded in 1926 and the following year began publishing its magazine, the Queen's Alumni Review.
1 Initially the publication appeared nine times each year, but today it is a 64-page Time-sized quarterly with a circulation of 103,000. The Review is Canada's oldest university publication.
Famous for its well established links between Alumni and prominent business leaders, Queen's 'NetworQ' won the Harris Connect Achievement Award for "Best Career Advisor Network" in 2007. Other finalists included Yale, Harvard, Wellesley, and Mount Holyoke colleges.
[22] [23]
Football
The
Golden Gaels won three consecutive
Grey Cups in 1922, 1923 and 1924.
[24] The Golden Gaels also won the
Vanier Cup as the top university football team in
CIS in 1968, 1978, and 1992.
Hockey
The ladies' hockey team, in full skirts, in 1917.
The Queen's hockey team is notable as the first team ever to challenge for the
Stanley Cup, in 1895.
[25] The Queen's team was a regular contender in the early days of
Stanley Cup Challenge Games. In 1926, Queen's was the
Eastern Canadian Champions, but lost the
Memorial Cup series to the Calgary Canadians for the national championship.
The
Canadian Amateur Hockey Association recognizes a claim that
Kingston, Ontario is the birthplace of
ice hockey from a game played between Queen's University and the
Royal Military College of Canada in 1886. This game is memorialized by the
International Hockey Hall of Fame annual Historic Hockey Series.
The varsity team will play at the
Kingston Memorial Centre following the demolition of the Jock Harty arena while the new arena (part of the Queen's Centre project) is being constructed.
Radio
Main articles: CFRC-FM
'
CFRC', the Queen's University
radio station, is the second longest running radio station in the world, surpassed only by the
Marconi companies. The first public broadcast of the station was on
October 27, 1923 when the football game between Queen's and McGill was called play-by-play. CFRC operates to the present day and broadcasts at 101.9
MHz.
Queen's jackets
Each faculty at Queen's sports its own distinctive jacket, in different colour based on the programme type. The material is almost exclusively leather, though historically there were times when the jackets were made of other materials such as nylon. Students often sew distinctive bars or patches onto their Queen's jackets to make them more unique and individual. Patches include major of study and faculty society mottos, as well as the official school crest with university motto – ''Sapientia Et Doctrina Stabilitas'' – and other assorted symbols. However, additions may not be made until the completion of first year.
As of 2007, the jacket colours are:
[26]
★ Applied Science (Engineering): gold (usually dyed purple to varying degrees)
★ Arts & Science: scarlet
★ Commerce: burgundy
★ Computing: black
★ Concurrent Education: midnight blue
★ Law: black
★ Medicine: royal blue
★ Music: black
★ Nursing: black
★ Kinesiology and Health Studies: dark blue
In the case of Arts (before expansion as Arts & Science), Applied Science, Medicine, and Commerce, the jacket colour is the same as the toorie on each faculty society
tam, the wearing of which was introduced in 1925. In the case of Arts, Science and Medicine, the colours were derived from the University Tricolour of Red, Gold and Blue. Before gaining greater autonomy, Commerce was under the Faculty of Arts, and as such its colour was derived as a different shade of the Arts colour. In the relatively newer faculties, however, this colour link is not present.
Students of Applied Science (Engineering) have taken to dying their jackets purple - a tradition that was originally established to honour the engineers who stayed behind on the
Titanic, and subsequently lost their lives (the uniform colour for engineers on the ship was purple). Queen's Engineers are also (in)famous for slamming their jackets on the ground en masse. While amusing when there are only a few slammers present, it is an awe-inspiring sight (and sound) to behold when hundreds of them slam simultaneously.
Military service
Queen's students served in both the
Great War and the
Second World War. Approximately 1,500 students participated in the First World War and 189 died. Months before Canada joined the second world war, US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Queen's to accept an
honorary degree and, in a broadcast heard around the world, voiced the American policy of mutual alliance and friendship with Canada. Roosevelt stated, "The Dominion of Canada is part of the sisterhood of the British Empire. I give to you assurance that the people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other Empire." Canada, during the Second World War, had the participation of 2,917 Queen's graduates and the sacrifice of 157. The
Victoria Cross was awarded to Major
John Weir Foote, Arts '33, Canadian Chaplain Service.
Today, numerous Queen's students serve in Kingston's naval reserve division, HMCS Cataraqui (which administers the University Naval Training Divisions programme for reserve officers), and Kingston's local militia regiment,
The Princess of Wales' Own Regiment.
Notable students, alumni and faculty
Main articles: List of Queen's University people
Queen's has long held a reputation as a breeding ground for leaders and visionaries. In addition to an illustrious list of alumni, several notable persons have also held administrative positions at the University.
Sir
Sandford Fleming, former
Prime Minister Sir
Robert Laird Borden, and former
Governor General Roland Michener have all served as
Chancellor of the university.
Her Serene Highness Princess Tatiana of Leiningen is currently a student.
See also
★
Herstmonceux Castle (Queen's International Study Centre)
★
Old Four
★
Group of Thirteen (Canadian universities)
★
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
★
Queen's University Solar Vehicle Team
★
Queen's School of Business
★
Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award
References
1. Queen's Encyclopedia
2. History - Beginnings
3. Where Do Queen's Students Come From?
4. Opportunities for Giving
5. Queen's University Visual Identity Standards [Accessed 15 May 2007]
6. 7. www.otago.ac.nz/study/student_exchange/partners/queens.html
8. Calvin, Queen's University at Kingston, 1841-1941, Hunter Rose, Toronto, 1941
9. See Senate Committee on Academic Development [Accessed 7 May 2007]
10. Queen's at a Glance
11. Ams - Our History
12. Undergraduate Student Tuition Fees - Domestic 2006/2007
13. See Queen's at a Glance - Quick Facts [Accessed 29 April 2007]
14. [http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/History/mappage.html
15. The Castle in Herstmonceux - Life at the Castle [Accessed 30 April 2007]
16. http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/06/macleans/ Top three schools in the Macleans Rankings
17. http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2006/18/c7274.html ''Maclean's files Freedom of Information requests with 22 universities''
18. TopGraduate, Big changes in the THES – QS World University Rankings 2006/7, accessed 2 December 2006
19. www.queensu.ca/about/2005/QAR/QAR_chap2.pdf
20. qnc.queensu.ca/campusnews_article_loader.php?id=45670ac55f303
21. http://www.univforum.com/canadian-university-ranking
22. http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COLC/conference/can2006.html
23. http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COLC/filemanager/AchievementAwards/2006AwardWinnersRevised.html
24. CFL.ca [Accessed 30 April 2007]
25. Legends of Hockey [Accessed 30 April 2007]
26. See: Queen's Medicine 2006 Class Crest Designs [Accessed 25 July, 2006]
External links
★ Queen's University – official website
★ The Queen's Journal (student newspaper)
★ Queen's Remembers: A Memorial to Those at the University Who Have Given Their Lives for Their Country exhibit at Queen’s University Archives
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