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Faculties
Faculty Association, Queen¥s University (QUFA)
Faculty Boards
Faculty Club
Faculty Members
Faculty Societies, Student
Faculty Women¥s Club
Family Medicine, Department of
Film and Media, Department of
Financial Services
Fires
First Aid, Queen¥s
"Firsts"
Fitness Centre, Queen¥s
Fleming, Sir Sandford
Fleming Hall
Food Services
Foodbank
Football
Founders¥ Row
Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre
Fowler Herbarium
Fraternities and Sororities
Free Queen¥s
French Centre
French Studies, Department of
Frosh Week
Frost Wing
Funding
Fyfe, Sir William Hamilton

Faculties. The university has five faculties: applied science, arts and science, education, law, and health sciences. Three of its schools are also, in effect, full faculties: business, graduate studies and research, and nursing. (A ninth unit, the theological college, is similar but not identical to a full faculty; for more on this unique unit, see that entry.) What distinguishes these faculties and schools from other academic units of the university is their relative autonomy: within the university, they answer to no authority but that of the principal and the senate. All of the university's other academic units, by contrast ñ its other schools, academic departments, centres, institutes and groups ñ fall under the authority of one or other of these faculties and schools. Another common feature is that they all are led by a dean as their chief academic and administrative officer, and all but one possess faculty boards that govern the overall academic affairs of each faculty, subject to the authority of the senate in certain areas. (The exception here is the School of Graduate Studies and Research, in which the faculty-board functions are divided between a Council of the School and four Divisions; see that individual entry.) All of these faculties and schools administer degree programs, but not all administer departments as well: only the School of Graduate Studies and Research and the three largest faculties ñ Arts and Science, Applied Science, and Health Sciences ñ are subdivided into departments. For more information about specific faculties and schools, see under individual headings.

Faculty Association, Queen's University (QUFA). The Queen's University Faculty Association was founded in 1951 and since 1995 has been the exclusive bargaining agent for faculty, librarians and archivists at Queen's. The Association's aims are to promote the interests of academic staff; to promote equity in recruitment and hiring of academic staff; to promote a positive working environment free of discrimination, interference, restriction, or coercion; to provide appropriate representation for all QUFA members; and to promote academic interests at Queen's and in the broader community.

QUFA provides information, advice, and support to members who have questions or problems concerning their employment with the University. Active membership allows participation in QUFA activities, votes, etc., is open to all members of the bargaining unit, involves nothing more than filling in a form, adds no additional cost, and is encouraged.

Two governing bodies, the Executive committee and the Council of Representatives, are responsible for QUFA's policy development and decision-making. QUFA also participates in governance at Queen's: three QUFA observers attend Board of Trustees meetings; QUFA's president is an Ex Officio member of the Senate; and association observers sit on several Senate committees. QUFA belongs to the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and to the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). The Association's office is in a welcoming house at 9 St. Lawrence Avenue (between King and Stuart Streets).

The Faculty Association is distinct from the University Club (formerly known as the Faculty Club), which is a social organization.

For more information, please see our website at http://www.qufa.ca.

Faculty Boards. Queen's five faculties and three schools (business, environmental studies and nursing) possess faculty boards. (The fourth school, graduate studies and research, is uniquely organized, in that the faculty-board functions are divided between a Council of the School and four Divisions; see that individual entry.) Faculty boards normally consist of all members of the faculty and a number of student representatives. They serve several main functions. Subject to the authority of the senate in certain areas, each board is responsible for governing the academic affairs of its faculty or school. Boards make recommendations to the Senate in such areas as admission standards, the granting of honorary and ordinary degrees, and the general efficient running of the university. The boards also pass faculty regulations and by-laws, award faculty scholarships, medals, and prizes, arrange class timetables, appoint teaching assistants and demonstrators, and deal with cases of academic dishonesty and some cases of student discipline (see that entry). To perform their functions, the faculty boards normally establish a range of committees; in the three faculties with departments, a particularly important committee is the Committee of Departments, consisting of the Department Heads and Associate Deans meeting under the chairmanship of the dean. Faculty boards usually meet monthly.

Faculty Club. See university club at queen's.

Faculty Members. Faculty members at Queen's University are appointed pursuant to the Collective Agreement between Queen's University and Queen's University Faculty Association (May 1999 to April 2002), or through the Senate Regulation Governing the Appointment, Renewal of Appointment, Tenure, Termination of Academic Staff. Under the Collective Agreement, Article 12 sets out the requirements of an appointments process for Faculty, Librarians and Archivists. The Article requires that a committee be established, and except in exceptional circumstances, the position must be advertised. At the end of the appointments process of review, the Principal considers the applicant's file and recommendations of the Committee, the Head, the Dean, University Librarian or University Archivist, and either grants or denies the appointment. Articles 13 and 14 of the Collective Agreement set out the process of promotion once a faculty member is appointed to the University. Promotion is the recognition by academic peers and the University of increased status of the Member in his/her respective discipline. A faculty member is assessed for promotion on his/her contributions to teaching, research and scholarship, and service to the Department, Unit, School, Faculty and the University, and service to the broader academic community. There are four faculty ranks at Queen's University: Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor. There are three ranks of Librarians/Archivists: General, Assistant and Associate Librarians/Archivists.

Faculty Societies, Student. Students in each faculty and in several of the schools are represented by their own societies. These serve three main functions. First, they act as a liaison between students and the faculty's administration. This is achieved largely by having elected members of each society sit on their respective faculty board. Second, they represent their constituents' interests to the central student government, the alma mater society. To that end, members of each society sit on the AMS Assembly (the number is determined by the size of the faculty). Third, they run a variety of services for the benefit of their constituents or, in some cases, for the entire Queen's and Kingston communities. These include organizing social events, publishing a variety of newspapers, ordering faculty jackets, running talent nights and sporting events, and organizing blood donor clinics. The faculty and school societies are: Aesculapian Society (medical students), Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS), Commerce Society, Concurrent Education Students' Association (CESA), Education Students' Society, Engineering Society, Law Students' Society (LSS), MBA Students' Society, Nursing Society, Physical and Health Education Society (PHESA), Rehab Society, Theological Society.

Faculty Women's Club. Founded in 1939, this club is open to women who either personally, or whose husbands, are current or retired faculty members, librarians, trustees, or university administrators. Its activities are primarily social, although it also funds several bursaries for Queen's students. An important role is to provide friendship and support to faculty and their families who come from abroad to work at Queen's for a short period and know no one in Kingston. The club rents a house from the university at 144 Albert Street.

Family Medicine, Department of. This department trains family physicians for communities the size of Kingston or smaller. It began in 1967 in the small, five-room Family Care Unit at Kingston General Hospital. It became a full academic department in 1971 and is now located in its own building at the corner of Bagot and Johnson Streets, attached to the Hotel Dieu Hospital, and has the largest postgraduate training program in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Students spend about half of their time in the program in community teaching practices in locations such as Sharbot Lake, Napanee, Picton, Belleville, Peterborough, Oshawa, Dryden, and Moose Factory. About 75 per cent of the program's graduates settle in cities of under 100,000 people. In the third year of the program students are offered a variety of special study options, including emergency medicine, care of the elderly, anaesthesia, women's health, and aboriginal health.

Film and Media Studies, Department of. Film studies at Queen's began in the 1960s when George Whalley, head of the Department of english, saw a need to give academic attention to the important place that cinema had come to take in modern life. He appointed the Canadian film critic and scholar Peter Harcourt to teach film classes in the English department. A separate Department of Film Studies was established in 1969 and by the mid-1970s offered students a BA (Honours) program in film. The department combines historical and critical studies with production courses in film and video, on the premise that graduates should be versed in both the contexts and the techniques of the art. The two converted Victorian houses at 154/160 stuart street that house the department contain classrooms and offices, cinemas, workshops, and viewing rooms packed with editing machines, advanced computing technology, laserdisc hardware, digital editing technology, and video cameras. A growing archive of films, video cassettes, video discs, DVD that includes significant collections of work by Canadian filmmakers such as Michael Snow, Allan King and Atom Egoyan, provides material for instruction and research.

Financial Services. This large department, located in the Rideau Building, is responsible for all aspects of the university's day-to-day financial operation. It administers the budget and payroll, pays suppliers, collects student fees, prepares internal and external financial reports, and advises departments on accounting matters. It is responsible to the vice-principal (operations and finance). For descriptions of other finance-related departments, see Purchasing and Development.

Fires. Queen's has had no major fires in its recent history. But during a 25-year period earlier this century, there was an unlucky string of fires that destroyed three buildings, badly damaged three others, and changed the course of development at the university. The first of these fires was in 1922, when Queen's old curling rink caught fire for unknown reasons and burned to the ground. The rink was located just north of Jackson hall and attached to the original Jock Harty Arena, which had just been completed. The arena itself was saved by students who patrolled its roof for flying embers. However, it was not to last long; it caught fire, also for unknown reasons, in March of 1924 and burned in a matter of hours. Investigators blamed the destruction partly on the amount of wood used in the arena's construction and university officials responded by insisting on steel frames and minimal use of wood in all new buildings, a policy which has been maintained since. The next fire struck a few months later, when the old medical building was hit by lightning in a summer thunderstorm. The resulting fire destroyed the building's newly-added third storey and gutted much of its interior. The building was rebuilt with a flat roof instead of a traditional pitched roof, minimizing the number of beams that would collapse on the interior during a fire. Since that decision, almost all new buildings at Queen's have been constructed with flat roofs.

Fire struck again in March of 1931 when a smouldering cigarette butt left in the women's washroom in kingston hall sparked a fire which tore through a large section of the building and left widespread smoke and water damage. Two years later, a short circuit caused a fire in fleming hall which destroyed the building's interior completely and wrecked large sections of its walls. Ever increasing attention to fireproofing and stricter smoking regulations kept fire away for more than a decade. But in September of 1947 a blaze struck the Students' Memorial Union, a handsome limestone structure on the site of the present john deutsch university centre. The fire destroyed a large section of the interior and left the building ñ already scheduled for replacement ñ so weak that officials decided to tear it down. Since that time, fires have only caused localized damage in individual buildings.

First Aid, Queen's. Queen's First Aid was formed in 1986 to provide prompt and efficient first aid services during campus events. Officially chartered by St John Ambulance, it is the only independent St John Ambulance division on a university campus in Canada. It is staffed by trained student volunteers and supervised in part by the director of health services.

"Firsts."

First professor: see the Rev Peter Colin Campbell.

Fitness Centre, Queen's. Opened in 1981, this centre has four main activities. It offers fitness testing, at a fee, for students and others in its full fitness assessment lab. It serves as a research facility for the School of physical and health education. It coordinates fitness programs, "fit breaks," fitness education and fitness testing for visiting groups as part of the university's conference package in the summer. And in partnership with the ergonomics research group it offers a back-care exercise and education program. The Fitness Centre is run by the School of physical and health education and is located in the Physical and Health Education Centre.

Fleming, Sir Sandford (1827-1915). Fleming was Canada's foremost railway engineer in the great era of rail construction in the 19th century; and he was also a friend of Principal george monro grant, who brought him to Queen's as the university's second chancellor (1880-1915). Fleming was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland and studied surveying in his home town before emigrating to Canada in 1845. He began accumulating railway experience during the 1850s and 1860s, when he served as chief engineer of various railways in Upper Canada and Nova Scotia. In 1867 he was appointed chief engineer of the Inter-Colonial Railway, which was to link Nova Scotia to central Canada as part of the confederation pact of that year. And in 1871 he accepted the largest challenge of his career: he was made chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in charge of supervising construction of the rail link that would open the Canadian west to settlement. The following year he led a gruelling cross-country survey expedition to pick a route for the railway, and one member of his small party was the minister of his church in Halifax ñ George Grant, who became Queen's Principal six years later. Grant's biographers trace to this trip and to his friendship with Fleming the ideal of service to the growing nation that would inspire his principalship.

Fleming did not oversee the building of the railway to its completion. He resigned from the CPR in 1880 when the government turned the railway over to private interests, but continued as a consultant. He also turned his attention to other projects. He was the driving force in the laying of a telegraph cable from Canada to Australia and was instrumental in the establishment of international standard time ñ the need for which he recognized while considering the problem of scheduling long-distance trains. Early in his career he designed Canada's first postage stamp, the three-penny beaver, issued in 1851. Grant successfully lobbied to have him selected Chancellor of Queen's in 1880, and he always took a close interest in the university. In addition to his official duties presiding over ceremonial occasions, he raised money for new buildings, supported the push towards the secularization of Queen's, and worked to expand the scientific side of the university. He was knighted in 1897 and died in office in 1915. Fleming Hall is named in his honour.

Fleming Hall. Fleming Hall is now home to The Departments of Marketing and Communications and Human Resources. Previous tenants include a variety of research laboratories and administrative offices, including those of the School of Graduate Studies. The hall is actually two connected buildings. The Jemmett Wing of Fleming Hall, as it is officially called, is the older and larger building. Built between 1902 and 1904, it faces fleming hall and sits between the rear of Ontario hall and Carruthers hall. The Stewart-Pollock Wing of Fleming Hall was built in 1964 and is attached to the rear of Fleming/Jemmett by a second-floor skywalk. There is some confusion on campus about what to call the two buildings since the Jemmett Wing was, prior to 1964, known simply as Fleming Hall and is still referred to as such by many people. The original part of Fleming Hall was gutted by fire in 1933 and, during reconstruction, its pitched roof was replaced by its present flat top. Fleming Hall is named after Sir Sandford fleming, railway engineer and second chancellor of Queen's (1880-1915). The Jemmett Wing is named after Douglas Mill Jemmett, head of the Department of electrical engineering from 1920 to 1960. The Stewart-Pollock Wing is named after Harold Huton Stewart, professor of electrical engineering from 1929 to 1973, and Harold Stockwell Pollock, professor of electrical engineering from 1937 to 1974. Fleming Hall housed the electrical engineering department until 1989. The tall chimney at the east end of the building is all that remains of the old steam heating plant that ran in the building from 1904 until 1923. Currently, the Jemmett Wing of Fleming Hall is also home to Queen's Telecommunications, Audio and Video and Campus Security. The Stewart-Pollack Wing houses the Department of Marketing and Communications and School of Graduate Studies and Research.

Food Services. Queen's contracts out the provision of food in both the residences and in the various cafeterias and vending machines on campus to two private companies, Sodexho-Marriott Management Services and Brown's Fine Foods. The university has a Director of Food and Beverage Services who manages these contracts, and who reports to the Director of residences and the associate dean (student affairs). This position is distinct from that of the head of Marriot operations on campus, who is also called the Food Services Director. The office of the former is in victoria hall; the office of the latter is in the John Deutsch University Centre.

Foodbank. Established in 1996 by the Alma Mater Society, this service is open to Queen's students in need of food aid. There has been steadily increasing usage of the service since its inception. The service is located in the basement of 272 Earl Street.

Football. For generations of students, Saturday afternoon football games at richardson stadium have been a fall ritual. The game was first played in a rudimentary form at Queen's in the late 1870s and has been the most popular sport ever since. The first games were informal matches of "Association Football [soccer] with catching." Then, in 1882, two brothers from Ottawa, Fred and Jackson Booth, introduced Queen's athletes to the game of "rugby football," an older version of modern rugby and the game from which football at Queen's evolved. The game was referred to as rugby football until well into this century and was quite different from the modern game of football. It was not until the 1930s, for example, that the now-crucial element of forward passing was permitted. Up until the 1930s, Queen's teams played not just against university teams, but against the best football squads in the country. They often did so with spectacular success. Queen's won its first national rugby football championship in 1893 and, in the early 1920s, its teams were virtually unbeatable. Led by Canadian hall-of-famers Harry "Red" Batsone and Frank "Pep" Leadley, Queen's won consecutive Grey Cups in 1922, 1923, and 1924 and went undefeated for a stretch of 26 games. An indication of Queen's strength was the score of the 1923 final, in which Queen's beat the Regina Roughriders 54-0. Shortly after these triumphs, the big-city teams took over the game and universities restricted themselves to intercollegiate play. Queen's played for years in a league with traditional rivals McGill, University of Toronto, and Western. But the growing number of universities in central Canada led to realignment and Queen's played in the Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference (OQIFC) from 1980 to 2001. Subsequently, due to realignment changes, the Golden Gaels will be shifting back into the Ontario Universities Association (OUA) conference, commencing in the 2001-2002 season.

Overall, since the founding of the first intercollegiate league in 1898, the team has won 30 conference titles, including six OQIFC titles. Since the first national intercollegiate championship was played in 1959, Queen's has won three Canadian titles (1968, 1978, 1992). Numerous Queen's players have gone on to play in professional leagues. Among the most notable since the 1950s have been CFL great Ron Stewart, a star for Ottawa in the 1950s and 1960s and Canadian male athlete of the year in 1960, and Mike Schad, one of the few Canadian-trained players drafted in the first round by the National Football League (fourth overall in 1986). The most prominent coaches in recent decades have been Frank Tindall (1947-1975), Doug Hargreaves (1975-1994) and Bob Howes (1994-2000) For more about Queen's football traditions, see Richardson Stadium, Guy Curtis, Alfie Pierce, William Allen, Frank Tindall, Bands, Oil Thigh.

Founders' Row. This is the tree-lined road which curves up from Stuart Street to Theological Hall. In 1881, 27 maples were planted along the road to commemorate the 26 founding trustees of Queen's and Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, who was active in several of the meetings that led to the foundation of the university. Each sapling is said to have been planted by a representative or relative of each of the founders. The original trees have long since died but the road is still lined with maples.

Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre. This centre seeks to enhance the development of the Queen's Aboriginal community. Individual Aboriginal Students are given opportunities at this centre for support in their academic, spiritual, physical and emotional needs. In 1994, Queen's was awarded a grant by the Ontario government under the Aboriginal Education and Training Strategy. This donation went towards the creation of the Aboriginal Student Centre, which was opened in 1996. Staff at Four Directions include an Aboriginal Counsellor, Aboriginal Liason, and a Cultural Advisor. It is located at 146 Barrie Street.

Fowler Herbarium. This is a collection of about 150,000 botanical specimens held by Queen's Department of biology. The collection was begun about 1860 by natural history professor George Lawson, but the curators responsible for its greatest periods of expansion have been James Fowler, the collection's namesake and professor of botany at Queen's from 1880 to 1907, and biology professor Roland Beschel, curator from 1959 to 1971. The collection contains a wide range of flowering and non-flowering plants, ferns, mosses, liverworts, and lichens, and specialized collections of winter twigs, fruits, seeds, and woods. Most of the specimens are from Ontario and the Arctic (Beschel's specialty), but samples come from around the world and date back as far as the early 19th century. The herbarium, which is used for both teaching and research, is housed in the Biosciences Complex.

Fraternities and Sororities. Queen's is one of few universities in North America which does not have fraternities or sororities. They have been banned at the university since a ruling by the alma mater society in 1933. The ruling was a response to the formation of two fraternities in the 1920s, one for arts and science students and a second, more active one, for medical students. The majority of students, who prided themselves on Queen's egalitarianism and united community spirit, disapproved of these organizations because of their external affiliations and the exclusivity that they fostered. A coalition of anti-fraternity forces, led by the levana society and Arts and Theology students, swept the AMS elections of 1933 and sponsored an open meeting of about 1000 students at grant hall, at which students voted to ban all fraternities and sororities. The 24 members of the medical fraternity, however, defied this ban and were brought before the AMS Court in 1934 for contravention of the AMS constitution. They were found guilty and declared ineligible to participate in all student political, social, and athletic activities for a year. This finally brought an end to fraternities, but the medical students carried on what became known as Medical House, a residence for medical students at 49 King Street East which still flourishes, but with none of the external affiliations or traditional rites of fraternities. There have never been any sororities at the university.

Free Queen¥s. A new program that will commence in September 2001, Free Queen's offers free non-credit courses that are taught by volunteer instructors from the university and the Kingston community. Courses combine academic and experiential approaches to learning and cover subjects not nescessarily covered in formal academic environments. Courses are open to all adults in the Kingston and area community interested in expanding their intellectual horizons. The Free Queen's Working Group has members from the Human Rights Office, Instructional Development Centre, Equity Office, Ban Righ Centre, Student Affairs Office, and John Deutsch University Centre.

French Centre. See le centre franÁophone.

French Studies, Department of. Courses in French have been offered at Queen's since the late 1860s and were first taught on a regular basis after 1888 by Prof John Macgillivray, Professor of Modern Languages. French became a separate department in 1902 under Professor P.G.C. Campbell. Today, the department provides a broad spectrum of courses, from oral courses aimed at students with scarcely any background in French, to a fully-developed graduate program offering both MA and PhD programs in a number of fields. Enrolment in the graduate program in particular has grown substantially in recent years. Faculty have for many years held to the principle that courses at all levels, whether lectures or seminars, are to be given entirely in French. A number of popular courses are offered in the literature of Quebec and other French-speaking parts of Canada. Undergraduates are encouraged to spend their third year of study at a francophone university, for which they receive credit at Queen's. Apart from programs in French and Quebecois language and literature, the department contributes to the interdisciplinary Language and Linguistics special field concentration, in which there are more than 50 students. The department is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.

Frosh Week. See Orientation Week.

Frost Wing. See Gordon Hall.

Funding. Queen's was founded in 1841 with the modest sum of about £8000 to its name. True to its Scottish Presbyterian origins, the main sources of this original amount were various groups in Scotland (£1250), the Presbytery of Kingston (£800), "persons in or connected with" the Hudson's Bay Company, then replete with Scotsmen (£562), and the Presbytery of Quebec, home to several of Queen's clerical founders, which gave the single largest donation of £1800. This was a limited amount, but Queen's leaders would have to get used to scarce resources, as the university continued to lead a precarious hand-to-mouth existence throughout the 19th century. Most of its funding in early decades came from the presbyterian church and, after 1845, the provincial government. But these sources were notoriously grudging and unreliable. By the early 1860s, government support accounted for 40 per cent of Queen's annual revenue, Church sources provided 28 per cent, investments accounted for 30 per cent, and students' fees provided a negligible two per cent. This all changed when disaster struck in 1867 and 1868. First, Ontario's commercial bank collapsed, taking about two-thirds of Queen's investment income with it; and then the government withdrew all of its funding for denominational colleges. More than half of Queen's annual income was suddenly lost. Only a desperate fundraising campaign led by Principal william snodgrass, which raised $114,000, saved the university and allowed it to continue in straitened circumstances.

Fundraising campaigns remained the engine that drove Queen's for the rest of the century, especially as the Church gradually reduced its share of support. Fortunately, Queen's was led from 1878 to 1902 by the charismatic Principal george grant, whose fund-raising abilities are a matter of Queen's legend and whose tireless work ensured that Queen's, instead of merely surviving, evolved into a dynamic national institution. Late in the century, eager to make Queen's once again eligible for provincial funding and relieve the burden on fundraisers, Grant proposed separation from the Presbyterian Church. This was finally achieved by his successor, daniel gordon, in 1912. But it was not until after the recommendations of a royal commission on nondenominational universities in the 1920s that the province once again took on a significant portion of Queen's funding. By 1929, the annual grant was up to $350,000, about half of Queen's income. But the Depression of the 1930s forced a drastic reduction of about one third, and it was not until 1947 that the grant got back to about $350,000. In the meantime, other sources of income ñ in particular student fees ñ took up the slack. During the early 1940s, student fees provided an historical high of about 50 per cent of annual income, government grants supplied 28 per cent, and investments and other sources provided the balance of 22 per cent.

In the prosperity of the postwar years, government funding flowed more generously than ever before and universities across Ontario experienced unprecedented growth in the 1950s and 1960s. But support has been harder to come by since the early 1970s. Total government operating grants have declined by more than 20 per cent, when adjusted for inflation, since 1972. Student fees have also decreased by about 30 per cent. The university has continued to grow mainly because of large increases in private income and in research grants and contracts, the latter source increasing more than tenfold since the early 1970s. In the early 1990s, provincial grants accounted for about 50 per cent of Queen's annual revenue of more than $250 million; grants and contracts provided about 25 per cent; and tuition fees and private donations accounted for equal parts of the remaining 25 per cent. In the late 1990s, however, the university began to struggle to meet its financial needs in lieu of the provincial government's decline in operating grants to Ontario universities and rapid increases in student enrollment. In 1998, the Board of Trustees approved the provincial deregulation of tuition fees for the Faculty of Applied Science, the School of Business, the Faculty of Law and the School of Medicine. Today, tuition fees and private donations account for more than 35 per cent of the university's annual revenue. The Office of Advancement's role in the University has increased significantly in the 1990s, culminating in the Campaign for Queen's, which expects to raise approximately $200 million for the university. For more on university finances, see also financial services. For more on fundraising, see also Advancement, Alumni Affairs, and Development.

Fyfe, Sir William Hamilton (1878-1965). An eminent classicist, Fyfe was the first Queen's principal (1930-1936) who was not a clergyman, and the last of several to be recruited directly from Britain. He was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated with a double first in classics and modern literature. He taught at Radley College high school, Merton College, and Christ's Hospital School in Sussex, where, as headmaster, he solidified his growing reputation as an educator by modernizing the curriculum. That reputation impressed Queen's leaders, who recruited him to the Principalship in 1930. The fact that he was not a clergyman put Queen's more closely in touch with an increasingly secular and scientific age. His cultured, English background also made him a good publicist for the university in those years when Canada still felt a colonial inferiority complex. He was a bright, lively man who had an easy way with words and an often biting sense of humour. However, he disliked administrative duties, and was content to most of the real running of the university in the hands of the formidable Vice-Principal, william everett mcneill.

Fyfe often criticized the standard of education at Canadian universities and their emphasis on vocational training, and tried to develop the arts and pure sciences at Queen's. He made some advances in the fine arts, music, and drama. But his arrival coincided with the onset of the Depression and a drastic reduction in funding for universities. This hampered his plans, in particular for the advancement of science. One of his greatest frustrations was his struggle to obtain funds for a particle accelerator. Shortly after that struggle ended in failure, he was invited to be the Principal of Aberdeen University ñ a position once held by his wife's uncle. He accepted the offer and remained in that post until his retirement in 1948. He was knighted in 1942.

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