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Bader,
Alfred
Ban
Righ Centre
Ban
Righ Hall
Bands
Beatty,
Sir Edward Wentworth
Bell,
Alexander Melville
Bell,
The Rev. George
Benidickson,
Agnes McCausland
Better
Beginnings, Better Futures
Bews
BiÈler,
AndrÈ Charles
Biochemistry,
Department of
Biology,
Department of
Biomedical
Computing, Department of
Biomedical
Engineering Unit
Biosciences
Complex
Bishop,
Billy
Black
students, expulsion from medical school
Board
of Trustees
Boo
Hoo the Bear
Borden,
Sir Robert Laird
Botterell
Hall
Bracken
Library
Brockington,
Leonard
Brockington
Visitorship
Bruce
Wing
Business,
School of
Bader, Alfred(1924-) Among Queen’s University’s most generous benefactors, Alfred Bader rejoices in the ABC’s of his life: art, the Bible, and chemistry. His gifts to Queen’s reflect his passion for these areas. He and his wife, Isabel, have contributed to academic excellence through chairs in Art History and Chemistry, and through fellowships, scholarships, prizes and bursaries in many disciplines. Their gifts of Old Masters paintings, including a Rembrandt, have made the Queen’s collection the finest university collection in Canada. In a crowning philanthropic gesture, the couple purchased and gave to the University a 15th century English castle, Herstmonceux, which has been carefully restored and is now home to the International Study Centre. Dr. Alfred Bader’s story is a fascinating one. An Austrian Jew of Czech descent, he fled from Europe to England at age 14 to escape the Nazis. In 1940 he was deported to Canada and ended up in an internment camp in southern Quebec. By 1941, thanks to the help of a Canadian friend, Bader became one of the first internees to be released from that detainment camp. Later that year, he was accepted to study at Queen’s, where he completed a degree in engineering chemistry. Dr. Bader went on to found the Aldrich Chemical Company, which would eventually become Sigma-Aldrich, the 80th largest chemical company in the United States. A self-confessed “inveterate collector”, Dr. Bader began collecting stamps as a young boy and soon discovered a passion for paintings. His early appreciation for fine art became a life’s mission, including years of devotion to the study of art history with preeminent experts, art dealers, collectors, and historians of Old Master paintings. In 1995, he published the book, Adventures of a Chemist Collector, which chronicles his life from the time he fled Nazi occupied Vienna, to the founding and growth of his company, to his exciting “second career” as an art collector, gallery owner, curator, and lecturer.
Ban
Righ
Centre.
Opened in 1974 as the Ban Righ Foundation for Continuing University
Education, this centre for mature women students is the home for
Ban Righ Foundation activities. It was made possible, indirectly,
by 50 years of thrifty management of the women's residences by Alumnae
Association volunteers. They had won a role in the management
of the campus's university-owned women's residences in the 1920s,
after planning and largely funding Ban Righ Hall. (For more on their
role before and after, see entries on Alumnae Association and Residences.)
At that time they had also insisted that any surplus that accumulated
in the running of the women's residences be ploughed back into women's
residences, and the Board of Trustees, doubtful that any such surplus
would arise, had agreed. By the early 1970s, when the central university
offices took over the management of women's residences, a substantial
surplus had accumulated. A committee of the Ban Righ
(Women's Residences) Board, headed by Dr. Jean Royce, discussed
the wisest use of these funds. It recognized the obstacles faced
by women who had been out of the educational system for a time,
and who wished to enter or re-enter the University. It felt that
with support and encouragement, many women could overcome these
obstacles and fulfil their desire for further education. They
envisaged the Foundation as a place of intellectual vitality by
way of individual accomplishment and mutual encouragement.
With the approval of the Board of Trustees, the Ban Righ Foundation
for Continuing University Education was established. The Foundation
is overseen by a Board comprised of members elected from the community
and ex-official appointees of the University, to which the Trustees
gave continuing authority over its endowments. Through the
Ban Righ Centre, the Foundation supports the personal development
and academic achievements of women entering Queen's as mature students,
or re-entering after a time away, and facilitates their involvement
in university life. The Centre offers a non-credit program
of speakers and workshops open to the public; provides a drop-in
centre, study space, limited financial assistance, fax, photocopier,
computers, and kitchen for student use; and provides both personal
and academic support. It is located at 32 Queen's Crescent
in the former home of William Everett McNeill, a colourful and influential
former Vice-Principal and Treasurer of the University (1930-1947),
and his wife Caroline McNeill, Queen's first Dean
of Women.
Ban
Righ Hall.
Built 1923-25, this women's residence is located at the corner of
university avenue and queen's crescent. It is the oldest of the
university's residences still standing and owned by the university,
and the first specifically built to be a residence. Its opening
in 1925 represented the culmination of about 15 years of work by
the volunteer members of the alumnae association, the association
of female Queen's graduates, who entirely planned Ban Righ Hall
and raised more than half of the money through bit-by-bit fundraising
in the form of teas, bakesales, bridge parties and small donations.
A reluctant board of trustees provided the rest of the money: some
Board members were worried that no women would want to live in Ban
Righ because it was located on what was then the little-travelled,
extreme southwest edge of campus, cut off from the focus of student
life to the north and east. In exchange for their contribution,
the Alumnae fought for and won an ongoing share in the administration
of Ban Righ and later women's residences at Queen's, a role they
kept until the early 1970s. (For more on this, see entries on Residences
and Alumnae Association.) Ban Righ was officially opened in October
of 1925 by the Viscountess Byng of Vimy. adelaide hall was
added to it in 1951-2 and an expanded dining hall was added in 1967-68.
The residence's dining hall was renovated in 1996 to accommodate
growing numbers of students in residences, as well as to modernize
food services at the University. The term "ban righ" is gaelic for
"wife of the King" ñ or, in other words, "Queen."
Bands. Queen's Bands are called "bands," plural, because there are actually four of them: a pipe band, a brass band, highland dancers, and a troupe of male and female cheerleaders. They perform at Queen's football games, appear together or in separate units at major university ceremonies, and represent Queen's at numerous parades and events across Canada and the United States. The Bands got their start in 1905, when a few first-year students decided to form a marching brass band "to help things along at football games." But the idea did not gain easy acceptance. The 12 original musicians, including john stirling, Queen's chancellor from 1960 to 1974, suffered verbal abuse on parades to the football field and were ejected from the equipment room, where they practised, by the football team. The group dissolved after just two years, and it was not until 1920 that a marching band reappeared. The revived band, unlike the original group, had its own instruments and even uniforms: white duck trousers, tricolour sweaters, and Queen's tams. The now traditional kilts were adopted only after the Second World War. A pipe band was added to the troupe in 1925, but did not become a permanent fixture until 1938, at which time highland dancers also appeared. It is unclear when cheerleaders first joined the Bands. "Rooters clubs" were formed early this century to lead students in cheers at Queen's games and appear to have gradually become informally, and then formally, linked with the Bands. There are now about 120 students in the Bands. The Bands' office is in the John Deutsch University Centre.
Beatty, Sir Edward Wentworth (1877-1943).
Best known for his 25-year reign as president of the CPR, Beatty
also served as Queen's fourth chancellor (1919-1923). Born in Thorold,
Ontario, he was educated at the University of Toronto (BA 1898)
and Osgoode Hall, after which he briefly practised law in Toronto.
He joined the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1901, became its general
counsel in 1913, and in 1918 was appointed the CPR's first Canadian-born
president. He led the company for the next 25 years, battling competition
from the newly-created Canadian National Railways by expanding CPR's
railway, steamship, and hotel divisions and creating Canadian Pacific
Airlines. He was selected chancellor of Queen's in 1919. Unfortunately,
he had little time to spend on university affairs or for travel
from Montreal to Kingston. He resigned in 1923 to take the more
convenient and then more prestigious position of chancellor of McGill.
He died in Montreal.
Bell, Alexander Melville (1819-1905). Queen's has an indirect connection to Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, through his father, Alexander Melville Bell, who enjoyed a brief but colourful tenure at Queen's. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the elder Bell taught the now obscure subject of elocution at Queen's for three years in the late 1870s, having previously taught the subject at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He also set up an experimental telephone at the university in December, 1877, two years after his son's famous experiment with the phone in Boston. The queen's journal wrote about the experiment in January of 1878: "A successful experiment with the Telephone was made at the termination of Prof Bell's Lectures before the Christmas vacation. The wire connected a room in Principal Grant's residence with the Classical Class Room. Prof Bell's rendering of the `Cavalry Charge at Balaklava' sounded beautifully through the Telephone." Bell received 75 per cent of the Canadian patents to the telephone in 1877, but sold them to National Bell (USA) in 1880. He died in Washington, DC.
Bell, The Rev George (1820-1898). Bell holds title to an impressive array of Queen's "firsts." A Perth, Ontario, native, his name was the first on the official registry of Queen's original class, which entered the university in March of 1842. He was a founder of the dialectic society, Queen's first student organization. He was one of three members of the university's first graduating class, earning a BA in 1847. In 1872, he became one of the first two alumni to receive an honorary doctorate from Queen's. And, finally, after years of service as a Presbyterian minister, he became Queen's first full-time registrar in 1881. Bell also doubled as librarian for some years and was a universal favourite among students. He retired in 1897 at the age of 77.
Benidickson, Agnes McCausland (1920-). Queen's chancellor from 1980 to 1996, she was also the first woman elected to the position ñ and the first to follow in a parent's footsteps in holding the post. Born in Chaffeys Locks, Ontario, she was raised in Winnipeg, the daughter of the grain merchant, financier, and Queen's Chancellor james richardson (who served from 1929-1939). She was educated at Queen's (BA 1941, LLD 1979) and lives in Ottawa, where her husband, the late William M. Benidickson, served as a Liberal MP for Kenora/Rainy River and as a Senator. She has devoted considerable time to public causes, beginning with work for the Canadian Red Cross during the Second World War. She was president of the Canadian Council on Social Development (1972-1974), president of the national Association of Canadian Clubs (1979-1983), and served a term as co-chair of the Volunteer Committee of Art Museums of the United States and Canada. She is a director of James Richardson and Sons Ltd, the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada, and for 14 years was on the Board of the National Trust. She was elected to Queen's board of trustees in 1969 and was its vice-chair from 1975 until 1980. She was elected Chancellor of Queen's in 1980 and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1987.
Better Beginnings, Better Futures. This is an interdisciplinary and inter-university research project designed to measure the effectiveness of social programs in helping disadvantaged children. The provincial government has funded special social services for children up to eight years old, living in 8 socio-economically disadvantaged communities and neighbourhoods in Ontario. The Better Beginnings Project is assessing the effect of these programs on the social, emotional, behavioural, physical and cognitive development of the children, partly by following the progress of the children and their families for 25 years, beginning in 1994. The research project is run by the Better Beginnings, Better Futures Research Coordination Unit which consists of a multi-disciplinary consortium of 14 researchers from seven Ontario universities, community research teams, and a central support group at Queen's University with offices at 98 Barrie Street. This unit coordinates the design, implementation, analysis, and reporting of research across the eight project communities. The Research Coordination Unit reports to the Vice-Principal (Research).
BiÈler, AndrÈ Charles (1896-1989). This important Canadian artist also left his mark on art at Queen's, most notably as an early art teacher and the founding director of the agnes etherington art centre. A native of Switzerland, BiÈler immigrated to Montreal at the age of 12. He served as a Canadian infantryman in the First World War and, while recuperating from his injuries, began to study art. He studied with the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York (1920-1926) and with his artist-uncle Ernest BiÈler in Switzerland. He lived in Quebec from 1927 to 1936, painting Quebec rural life. He came to Queen's in 1936 as the university's artist-in-residence and remained a professor of art until his retirement in 1964. In 1941, he organized at Queen's the first conference of Canadian artists, a meeting which led to the creation of the Federation of Canadian Artists, with BiÈler as President, and set in motion the chain of ideas and events that led to the creation of the Canada Council in 1957. He was the founding director of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, serving in the post from 1957 to 1963. He stayed in Kingston after his retirement and continued his prolific career as a painter, printmaker, and sculptor until his death in 1989. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws at Queen's in 1964 and the Order of Canada a few months before his death. In 2000, the refurbished agnes etherington art centre re-opened with a new edition: the featured AndrÈ BiÈler Studio, named after him in honour of his accomplishments for Queen's. See Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
Biochemistry, Department of. This department was founded in 1937 when the family of medical alumna Dr Agnes Craine funded the construction of the Craine Building, the department's first home, and endowed the new Craine Professorship of Biochemistry. The department's first head was Dr Robert Sinclair, whose son, Duncan Sinclair, became Dean of Medicine in 1988. Today, there are about 15 full-time faculty in the department as well as a number of cross and joint appointments with other departments. They teach and conduct research in three main areas: signal transduction, protein structure and function, and cancer biology. Although the department is administered by the Faculty of Health Sciences, it is also a full teaching unit in the School of Graduate Studies and Research and in the Faculty of Arts and Science, where, as well as offering its own undergraduate program, it also participates in the popular Life Sciences program. Since 1993, the department has also offered a co-operative undergraduate degree program in which students can combine academic courses with work experience. Located in Botterell Hall since 1983, the department has a wide variety of modern research equipment and contains a Core Facility in protein chemistry (a facility which manufactures peptides for scientific research at Queen's and elsewhere), and is developing a modern Protein function Discovery Facility.
Biology, Department of. This department was founded in 1858 when George Lawson was appointed Queen's first professor of Natural History and Chemistry. Previously, students had studied botany as part of their studies in Natural Philosophy. Since the 19th century biology in general and at Queen's has grown from a largely observational discipline into an experimental science. The department moved into its own building, earl hall, in 1965, and has grown rapidly since. The number of full-time faculty in the department now stands at about 25. The department offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate courses in the physiology, anatomy, behaviour, origin, and distribution of animals and plants and conducts extensive research in all of these area. Environmental monitoring and protection have become an increasingly important part of the department's work in recent years. The department has a field station of 2,500 acres at Lake Opinicon north of Kingston. In 1996, the department moved into the $52 million Biosciences Complex and Technology Transfer Centre. The complex features modernized laboratories and lecture halls, as well as a facility to help university researchers test new products and launch them into the market place. For more on the department's history, see Queen's Biology by B.N. Smallman, H.M. Good, and A.S. West. The Department is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science. See also Fowler Herbarium, Environmental Studies, Geographical Information Systems Laboratory, Greenhouse and Life Sciences.
Biomedical Computing, Department of. This new program, offered through the Department of Computing and Information Science, will commence in the Fall of 2001 and will be Canada's first specialized program in computational biology and medical informatics. Offered as an interdisciplinary program of study, Biomedical Computing involves the application of computational methods for the advancement of biological and medical science. Activites include data acquisition, robotics and laboratory analysis. The departments of Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Life Science, Computing and Information Science, Biochemistry, Mathematics and Statistics, Microbiology, Philosophy and Pharmocology & Toxicology are involved in this department, and the program's main offices are located in Walter Light Hall.
Biomedical Engineering Unit. Established in 1964, this multidisciplinary unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Applied Science carries out research, organizes undergraduate and graduate teaching, and provides an advisory service in the application of engineering methods to biology and medicine. It also designs and builds custom instrumentation and helps service biomedical equipment for research and clinical work. Research in the unit includes work on neural prosthetic devices for hearing, vision, and motor control as well as biomechanical modelling of musculoskeletal dynamics. Participants come from a wide range of health science and basic science fields. The unit is located in Fleming Hall, Jemmett Wing.
BioSciences Complex. Completed in 1997, the BioSciences Complex houses the Department of Biology, PARTEQ and various other science and technology-oriented departments. Composed of state-of-the-art laboratories and lecture halls, the BioSciences Complex has also played host to the opening of the Campaign for Queen¥s in the fall of 2000. It is located across from Summerhill, on Arch Street.
Bishop, Billy (1894-1956). The famous Canadian flying ace has a minor connection with Queen's. In 1919, the fledgling aerial photography company that he founded after the First World War took a picture of Queen's that is now one of the best known historic photos of the campus. Since Bishop and a professional photographer were the company's only two employees it is almost certain that he was flying the plane when the picture was snapped.
Black students, expulsion from medical school. Perhaps the most extreme episode of racism in Queen's history came in 1918, when the Faculty of medicine caved in to prejudiced patients and expelled black students from the university. A small number of black students, mainly from the Caribbean, attended the medical school early in the century. They appear to have been happily integrated into student life, but were more tolerated than truly accepted by local patients. That tolerance turned into hostility around 1917, apparently at the instigation of wounded soldiers returned from the battlefields of Europe. Why the soldiers were so hostile is unclear, but medical officials did virtually nothing to resist their demands that they be attended by white doctors and students only. Instead, they started the process of expelling all 15 black students in the faculty ñ even those who were not in years that required clinical work. Encouraged, no doubt, by the knowledge that McGill and the University of Toronto were also considering expelling black medical students, Queen's senate in 1918 supported Dean James connell's recommendation that the students be transferred to cities with larger black populations. One of the saddest parts of the whole episode is that the reactions of the black students appear to have been unrecorded in any contemporary documents. There is also no clear record of where the students ended their studies, though it is likely that many went to Dalhousie, where Connell had recommended transferring them. Black students were not permitted to return to medical studies until after the Second World War. There were never any restrictions against black students in other faculties.
Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is one of the University's three primary governing bodies, along with the Senate and the University Council. While the Senate is responsible for academic matters (see separate entry), the Board is responsible for the overall operation of the University, including overseeing financial matters and making senior appointments.. It meets four times a year and much of its work is done by its Committees: for a list of these, see below. Some responsibilities have been delegated: for example, the Principal is now authorized to make most appointments and promotions on the Board's behalf.
The rules of composition of the Board have changed significantly since the Board was first described in Queen's Royal Charter. The main original prerequisite was membership in the Presbyterian Church; in addition, to intensify the Presbyterian nature of the Board further, 12 of the original 27 Trustees had to be Presbyterian ministers. Between 1841 and 1912, several changes wre made by Statutes governing the compostion of the Board. The present composition of the Board was establsihed by a Statute of Canada in 1912, wither certain amendments in 1914, 1916 and 1996. The current Board has 44 voting members, including three ex officio members (the Principal, the Chancellor, and the Rector. The elected members come from across Canada and from all walks of life, although representatives from the corporate world still predominate; they are chosen by the University Council (six members); by Queen's Graduates (six members); by University Benefactors (seven members); by the Trustees themselves (15 members); and by the Theological College (one member), by the Staff (2 members); by the Students (2 members) and by the Faculty (2 members). A 1916 federal amendment to the University's Royal Charter provides for four members to be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, but so far that power of appointment has not been exercised. Board members elect for themselves a Chair and three Vice-Chairs. The Committees of the Board's are the Advancement Committee, Audit Committee, the Campus Planning and Development Committee, the Finance Committee, the Investment Committee, the Nominating Committee and the Pension Board. The Board also strikes special task forces from time to time to deal with special problems. The Board of Trustees is administered under the University Secretariat which is located in Mackintosh-Corry Hall B 400.
Chairs of the Board since 1840:
William Morris (1840-1842)
John Hamilton (1843-1846)
Francis Harper (1846-1849)
John Hamilton (1850-1882)
Alexander Morris (1883-1889)
Justice D.B. Maclennan (1890-1912)
Hamilton Cassels (1913-1921)
W.F. Nickle (1921-1930)
J.W. Macdonnell (1930-1957)
E.C. Gill (1957-1963)
R.D. Harkness (1963-1969)
J.D. Gibson (1969-1975)
R.W. Southam (1975-1980)
Norman MacLeod Rogers (1980-1985)
Walter F. Light (1985-1990)
Richard G. Stackhouse (1990-1995)
Donald Elliot (1995-2000)
John Rae (2000-)
Bill Young (current)
Board of Trustees Queen's Advancement Committee of the Board.
Board of Trustees Audit Committee.
Board of Trustees Campus Planning and Development Committee.
Board of Trustees Environment Committee.
Board of Trustees Finance Committee.
Board of Trustees Investment Committee.
Board of Trustees Nominating Committee.
Board of Trustees Pension Committee.
Boo Hoo the Bear. Boo Hoo, Queen's mascot, is played today by a student wearing the costume of a bear in a tartan waistcoat and tam. The original Boo Hoo, however, was a real bear cub purchased by students in 1922. Over the years, four more Boo Hoos succeeded the original bear. herb hamilton's book, queen's! queen's! queen's! shows the last one, Boo Hoo V, posing with cheerleaders in 1952. In the 1920s, the Kingston-based composer Oscar Telgmann even composed a march for the piano in honour of the bear, called "The Mascot, Boo Hoo's March," which was popular for some years. The mascot was revived in its present form in 1980 and today appears at sporting events and all but the most formal of university occasions.
Borden, Sir Robert Laird (1854-1937). Queen's has had no alumni go on to be Prime Minister of Canada, but it has had a former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, serve as chancellor. Born in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, Borden taught at private academies in Canada and the US before articling in law in Nova Scotia in 1874. He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and by 1890 headed a prestigious Halifax law firm. He was elected to Parliament in 1896 and in 1901 became leader of the Liberal-Conservative Party. He became Canada's eighth Prime Minister in 1911 when his party defeated the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. During the First World War, his government passed the Emergency War Measures Act (1914) and the first measures of direct taxation by the federal government. In 1917 he won a bitterly fought election on the issue of conscription, which his government favoured. He retired from politics in 1920 and pursued a successful career in business. He was selected Queen's fifth Chancellor in 1924. He took a close interest in the university and his connections proved useful in its dealings with various government departments. He retired from the post in 1930.
Botterell Hall. Completed in 1979, this nine-storey building, located next to kingston general hospital, is the main health sciences building at Queen's. It was made possible by the new provincial funding that became available to Queen's after it joined forces with local hospitals and agreed to coordinate its activities with them in a cooperative health sciences complex. Botterell Hall contains classrooms, labs, and the Bracken Library, the university's health sciences library. A large addition for heart and stroke and cancer research was opened in 1992. It is named after Edmund Harry Botterell, neurosurgeon, Dean of the Faculty of medicine from 1962 to 1970, and vice-principal (health sciences) from 1968 to 1971.
Bracken Library. This is the Queen's Health Sciences library. Located on the lower two floors of Botterell Hall, it contains more than 100,000 volumes, subscribes to more than 1,400 academic journals, and provides access to a large array of electronic information resources. Bracken Library provides an extensive curriculum for the integrated information literacy programme. It is named after Franklin Bracken, Meds 1911, a distinguished ophthalmic surgeon and a generous benefactor.
Brockington, Leonard (1888-1966). Queen's 10th and longest-serving rector (1947-1966) was also the first chair of the CBC, and a national figure as an orator and public commenter. Born in Cardiff, Wales, Brockington moved to Canada in 1912, settling in Alberta. He was called to the bar in 1919 and was Calgary's city solicitor for more than 20 years. Because of his wide interest in the arts he was appointed chair of the CBC in 1936. He oversaw the establishment of a national network of transmitters to bring the network to every region of the country and established for the CBC the principles of nonpartisanship and non-sponsored broadcasts. During the war, he served as a special assistant to Prime Minister Mackenzie King and was an advisor to the British Ministry of Information. He was also a famed labour negotiator and, after the war, became president of Odeon Theatres in Canada. He was a talented orator and first came to Queen's in 1947 to deliver the annual alma mater society lecture. He was such a success that he was invited to be Rector before the year was out. He was immensely popular among students and faculty and devoted a great deal of time to university affairs. His connections in the Canadian arts and political communities world brought numerous luminaries to Queen's for visits and lectures, including Yousuf Karsh, John Buchan, and Grattan O'Leary. He remained Rector until his death in 1966.
Brockington Visitorship.
Brockington Visitorship.
Bruce Wing. See Miller Hall.
Business, School of. Queen's School of Business traces its origins to the establishment of a Commerce program at the university in 1919 ñ the first such program in Canada and the second in the Commonwealth. The program was offered by the Department of Political and Economic Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science (see political studies and economics). In 1937, the program was given the more formal title of School of Commerce and Administration; it was renamed the School of Business in 1960. It remained a part of the Department of Political and Economic Science until 1963, when it was given the status of a full-fledged faculty, with its own dean and faculty board. (Arts and science undergraduates can still take some business courses as electives; for this purpose the School of Business is sometimes said to provide the Department of Commerce for the Faculty of Arts and Science.)
The School aims to be recognized nationally and internationally as providing the most forward-thinking and outward-looking management education and research in Canada. The School has about 50 full-time faculty members and an enrolment of approximately 1400 students: 800 in the flagship Bachelor in Commerce program; 60 in the niche-focused MBA for Science & Technology; 480 in the innovative Executive MBA; and 50 in the research-intensive MSc and PhD programs. In addition, enrolment in the non-degree programs offered by Queen's Executive Development Centre has grown so that Queen's commands over half of the market share in Canada for university-based senior management education.
The School began offering an Executive MBA program in Ottawa in 1992, and in 1994 started the first videoconferencing Executive MBA program in Canada. With 50 sites in 14 cities across the country, Queen's links students at more sites than any other MBA in the world. The tradition of offering distance learning at the School dates back to 1914, when the university began offering a special correspondence course in banking in cooperation with the Canadian Banking Association. From 1921 to the early 1970s Queen's served as the exclusive provider of the correspondence courses required for qualification as a Chartered Accountant in Ontario and several other provinces. In 1996 Queen's discontinued its traditional two-year MBA program and launched the ground-breaking MBA for Science & Technology: the first MBA in Canada to be completely privatized; the first to be focused on the growing high-tech sector; and the first to offer a shortened 12-month curriculum. In 1997 the one-year MSc program was added to complement the unique double-major PhD, providing a new format for students to pursue research interests in management. In 1998 the School was the first in Ontario to be accredited by The International Association for Mnagement Education (AACSB), the world's largest business school accreditation body. See also Queen's Executive Decision Centre, Goodes Hall, Queen's Centre for Enterprise Development and Queen's Centre for Knowledge-Based Enterprises.
Degrees: Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Masters of Science in Management (MSc, Mgmt), Doctor of Philosophy, Management (PhD, Mgmt).