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Haemostasis
and Thrombosis Research Group
Hamilton,
Herbert Jones
Harkness
Hall
Harrison-LeCaine
Hall
Health
Policy Unit, Queen´s
Health
Services and Policy Research, Centre For
Health,
Counselling and Disability Services
Health
Sciences, Faculty of
Health
Studies, Department of
Queen's Hillel
History,
Department of
History
of Queen´s
Hockey,
First game of
Honorary
Degrees
Hoods
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Resources
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Rights Office
Humphrey
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Haemostasis and Thrombosis Research Group. Founded in 1985, this group brings together researchers from the Department Biochemistry, Medicine, and Pathology in the Faculty of Health Sciences to study some of the basic mechanisms that underlie heart disease and strokes and bleeding conditions such as haemophilia. The group's members conduct a variety of different kinds of research aimed generally at understanding how blood clotting is regulated. ("Haemostasis" is the normal or physiological process by which bleeding is arrested, whereas "thrombosis" is an abnormal or pathological process in which blood clots form in the circulation of vital organs such as the heart, causing heart attacks.) The group receives funding from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, the Medical Research Council of Canada, the National Institutes of Health (USA) and industry. In 1992, the group moved into new quarters in a second floor extension of Botterell Hall.
Hamilton, Herbert Jones (1909-1989). One of the best-loved figures in Queen's recent history, Hamilton was a long-time editor of Queen's alumni review and Director of Alumni Affairs. He was educated at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute and at Queen's (BA 1932). He was a reporter at the Kingston Whig-Standard (1932-1936), Assistant Editor of the Alumni Review, then called the Queen's Review (1936-1939), Editor of the Alumni Review and Secretary-Treasurer of the Alumni Association (1939-1974), and director of the Alumni Office, now the Department of Alumni Affairs (1970-1974). He held posts on innumerable Queen's committees and became a member of the Board of Trustees after his retirement in 1976. He was also well known for his popular anecdotal history of the University between the 1930s and the 1970s, Queen's! Queen's! Queen's! (1977). His long years of devoted service and warm sense of humour made him a revered figure at the University. He received an honorary degree from Queen's in 1975; his citation read: "He has been and is the one and only `Herb,' the unique incarnation of the Queen's spirit."
Harkness Hall. Built in 1969, Harkness Hall is a residence building for graduate students located near the intersection of Earl and Alfred Streets. It was originally intended to house men only, but it became co-ed in 1987. It is named in honour of R.D. Harkness, a chair of Queen's Board of Trustees in the 1960s. It has room for about 100 students.
Harrison-LeCaine Hall. This is the home of Queen's School of Music. Completed in 1973, the building houses classrooms, teaching and practice studios, rehearsal halls, staff offices, the music library, electronic and computer music studios, an electronic piano laboratory, and a lounge area. It is named after the eminent British musicologist Frank Harrison, the first resident musician at Queen's (1935-1946), and Queen's graduate, scientist, and composer Hugh LeCaine, a major figure in the development of electronic music in Canada. The building underwent significant restorations and renovations in the late 1990s, and was re-opened in the summer of 2000 upon completion. The building is located on Queen's Crescent next to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
Health Policy Unit, Queen's. Founded in 1991, this interdisciplinary unit was set up to undertake research, external consulting, and education in the area of health policy. Its goal was to serve individual clients and enrich health policy debate in Canada and internationally by designing innovative, workable alternatives to current models of health care funding and administration. The unit had several staff researchers of its own, and also brings together outside health practitioners and Queen's faculty members in the departments of Community Health and Epidemiology, Medicine, Economics and Geography, and the Faculty of Education. It was originally called the Health Policy Research and Evaluation Unit; the name was shortened in 1992. The unit reports to the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine, and also to an advisory board made up of Queen's officials and outside experts. This unit was phased out of existence in 2001 and was replaced with the Centre For Health Services and Policy Research.
Health Services and Policy Research, Centre For. This is a research organization with the Faculty of Health Sciences, which was established in 2001 as a successor to the Queen's Health Policy Research Unit. It receives core funding rom the Ontario Ministry of Health, salary support from Queen's University, and research funding from granting agencies (SSHRC, CHSRF, ACMC/MRC, PSI Foundation) and contract clients. Build around a core group of researchers trained in disciplines such as public policy, economics, epidemiology, biostatistics, medicine, social psychology, medical sociology and geography, it enjoys collaborative ties with the School of Policy Studies, the Faculty of Education, and many other department at Queen's. It is the host department to the Canadian Health Economics Research Association, and enjoys close collaborative research relationships with the Eastern Ontario brnahc of the Health Information Partnership, the South Eastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization, and the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Community Care Access Centre. Key areas of research interest with examples include: health care funding; community-based care; program evaluation; and access to care issues. The Centre reports to an Advisory Council and the Dean of Health Sciences. It is located in Abramsky Hall.
Health,
Counselling and Disability Services. An amalgam of services
related to the physical, emotional and intellectual health of Queen's
students, this service is in place to assist students on a variety
of non-academic issues. In 1996, the Queen's Special Needs Office
and the Student Counselling Service amalgamated their services together,
and upon the demolition of the St. Lawrence Building in 2000, Student
Health Services was phased into this service to form Health, Counselling
and Disability Services. These services offer medical, nursing,
psychiatric, health promotion services, professional counselling
services to students, concerns related to career or personal matters,
resources for disabilities, as well as offering programs to help
students develop their skills as fully as possible. Based out of
the LaSalle Building, this service reports to the Dean
of Student Affairs.
Health Sciences, Faculty of. This Faculty was established in 1854 after more than a decade of effort by Queen's officials to add a medical school to the young university. It began in a small limestone house at 75 Princess Street, soon thereafter moving to Summerhill, where the rest of the University was located. In 1858, it moved into the first permanent building that Queen's built for itself: the old medical building. But in 1866 the Faculty split from the University after medical professors – less theologically-minded than their colleagues – protested against having to make a public declaration of presbyterian faith. The Faculty became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston, which retained a loose affiliation with the University. The RCPSK eventually reunited with Queen's in 1892 in order to share resources and expertise. (For details of one important, but unpleasant episode in the RCPSK's history, see women medical students, expulsion of.)
The faculty grew enormously in the 20th century, evolving into one of Canada's premier centres for medical research as well as teaching. In recent decades, the most important development in medical education was the establishment in the 1960s of the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, which brought the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Nursing together with local hospitals to provide cooperative facilities for exemplary patient care, research, and training. Planning for a nursing program at Queen's began in 1941 The first students were admitted in the Fall of 1942 and the first Director of the School of Nursing was appointed in 1946. In 1979, the School of Rehabilitation Therapy, originally a stand alone unit, became part of the Faculty.
In 1998, the School of Medicine and School of Rehabilitation Therapy were joined by the School of Nursing to become the current Faculty of Health Sciences. Today the faculty has about 330 full-time faculty members but many more part-time, since every doctor with attending privileges at Kingston General Hospital, Hotel Dieu Hospital, and Providence Continuing Care Centre's St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital site normally also holds a faculty appointment in the School of Medicine. The Faculty of Health Sciences forms the academic core of the Academic Health Sciences Centre and as part of the Health Care Network of Southeastern Ontario. Academic programs are based on campus but are distributed throughout southeastern Ontario's health care facilities. Academic programs are based on campus but are distributed throughout affiliations with Quinte Healthcare Corporation, Lakeridge Hospital, Peterborough, Perth, Brockville, Weeneebayko (Moose Factory) amongst many other sites. The innovative Alternative Funding Plan (AFP), a contractual agreement of SEAMO and the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care and the Ministry of Community & Social Services provides stable funding for the delivery of research, education and extensive tertiary , secondary and some primary care in a region of over one million people.
The Faculty offers programs in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, undergraduate education in Physical and Occupational Therapy and graduate education in Rehabilitation Science, undergraduate and postgraduate education in Nursing, including the Nurse Practitioner Program, graduate education in the Life Sciences, and collaborative programs in Respiratory Therapy and in X-Ray Technology. Main offices of the Faculty are located in Botterell Hall. See also Biomedical Engineering Unit, Bracken Library, Glaxo Wellcome Clinical Educational Centre, Developmental Consulting Program, Life Sciences, Medical Quadrangle, Medical Art and Photography, Medicine at Queen's, Women's Medical College, and entries for individual departments.
Degrees: Doctor of Medicine (MD), Bachelor of Nursing Sciences (BNSc), Master of Science, Nursing (MSc), Bachelor of Science Physical Therapy (B.Sc. P.T.), Bachelor of Science, Occupational Therapy (B.Sc.O.T.), Master of Science, Rehabilitation Science (M.Sc.), Doctor of Philosophy, Rehabilitation Science (Ph.D.), Master of Science, Life Sciences (M.Sc.), Doctor of Philosophy, Life Sciences (Ph.D.).Schools: Medicine, Nursing, Rehabilitation TherapyDepartments: Anatomy & Cell Biology, Anesthesiology, Biochemistry, Community Health & Epidemiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Oncology, Opthalmology, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmcology & Toxicology, Physiology, Psychiatry, Rehabilition Medicine, Surgery and Urology.
Health Studies, Department of.See Physical Health & Education, School of.
Queen's Hille: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Queen's Hillel has been the hub of Jewish social and cultural activity on campus since the 1940s. It offers a variety of activities for interested members of the Queen's community, out of a restored 1840s heritage villa at 124 Centre Street, beside Kingston's Beth Israel synagogue. "Hillel House" is the traditional name for Jewish gathering places at universities throughout the world. Hillel was a first-century founder of Rabbinic Judaism, the school of Judaism from which all modern Judaism derives.
History, Department of. History was first taught at Queen's only as a small part of courses in Latin and Greek, the heart of the university's arts curriculum in its early years. Students in these courses spent some of their time studying the history of ancient Greece and Rome. The first professor of history as a separate subject was John Machar, Jr (son of Queen's second principal), who was appointed part-time lecturer in English History, without salary, in 1864. Professor George Ferguson was the most significant early appointment in the subject, however, serving as professor of History and English Literature from 1869 to 1907. The first full-time professor to teach history exclusively was the Rev George Harrison, appointed in 1891. In 1890, Queen's became the first English-speaking university to establish examinations in Canadian history, a subject which has ever since been a major component of both the graduate and undergraduate programs. The department now offers a wide range of courses, covering most parts of the world and embracing many different approaches to understanding the past (social, cultural, political, economic, and others). Most courses are taught as seminars. By the early 1990s more than 100 students each year were receiving an Honours BA with a major or medial concentration in history. Approximately 25 to 30 graduate degrees (MAs and PhDs) are awarded annually. The department has grown dramatically since 1960, when it had six full-time faculty; it now includes almost 30 historians. The department is active in scholarship and research as well as teaching, and many of its members have published major works in their fields of enquiry. The department, located in John Watson Hall, is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.
History of Queen's. Queen's University was established on 16 October 1841 by a royal charter issued by Queen Victoria. The document was granted after years of effort by the Presbyterians of Upper Canada to found a college for the education of ministers in the growing colony, and to instruct youth in the "various branches in Science and Literature." Its founders modelled the new college on the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Queen's, like them, was given a governing structure built around a board of trustees, a principal, and a senate. Classes began on 7 March l842, when "Queen's College at Kingston" opened in a small wood-frame house on the edge of the city with two professors and 13 students.
Its rise to prominence began slowly. For its first 11 years the school had no home. It moved from house to house in Kingston, finally settling in Summerhill, a spacious limestone residence which still stands at the heart of the main campus. Financial support came at first from the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, the Canadian government, and private citizens. But this support was meagre and barely kept the college afloat. In 1867 and 1868 the college faced ruin when the government withdrew its funding and the commercial bank collapsed, a disaster which cost Queen's two-thirds of its endowment. Principal William Snodgrass and other dedicated officials narrowly rescued the college with a desperate fundraising campaign across Canada.
Yet Queen's future remained insecure. As late as the mid-1880s there was talk within university circles that Queen's should leave Kingston and merge with the University of Toronto as the only means of avoiding financial failure. However, Queen's senior officials were determined to stay and build on the roots the college had put down and the progress it had begun to achieve in Kingston. It had added the Faculty of medicine in 1854 and had taken over the Kingston observatory in 1861. In 1869, Queen's became the first university west of the Maritimes to admit women to classes. And by the mid-1870s enrolment had grown from 15 to more than 100 students.
But it was not until the principalship of the Rev George Monro Grant (1877-1902) that Queen's achieved a position as one of Canada's premier universities. The first of Queen's Canadian-born principals, Grant was an idealistic and forceful man, determined to build the college into a national institution. He was deeply religious and nationalistic and worked to produce graduates who would build the growing country in a spirit of dedicated service rather than material gain. Under his leadership, Queen's grew rapidly in size and prestige. By the end of his 25-year term the college had more than tripled its size, gained a measure of financial security, and charted a course towards greater academic diversity. In 1893 Queen's established the Ontario School of Mining and Agriculture, forerunner of today's Faculty of Applied Science. A graduate studies program was launched in l889. And in the 1880s it pioneered correspondence education in North America.
Principal Grant died in 1902 and was succeeded by the Rev Daniel Miner Gordon, a fellow Nova Scotian. No one could replace Grant entirely, but the college continued to grow under Gordon's direction. The most important development in Gordon's term came in 1912, when Queen's separated from the Presbyterian Church – a move which brought it more in touch with an increasingly secular age. It was then that the college officially changed its name to "Queen's University at Kingston." Gordon retired because of failing health in 1916, two years into World War I.
The war had a dramatic impact at Queen's. Students were thrown into military training. Grant Hall – an assembly and concert hall built in 1905 and named after the former Principal – was transformed into an army hospital. And the enlistment of students, staff, and faculty caused enrolment to plummet, leaving Queen's, according to university historian Frederick Gibson a skeleton hovering on the edge of bankruptcy.
But the armistice in 1918 and a $1,000,000 fundraising drive led by the new Principal, Rev Bruce Taylor, soon put the University back on course of modest progress and innovation. Queen's introduced the first commerce courses in Canada in 1918. Old Richardson Stadium was built on Union Street in 1920; Douglas Library went up in 1924; and Ban Righ – Queen's oldest existing student residence – was built in 1925. The early 1920s were also the golden age of Queen's football. Queen's defeated the Edmonton Eskimos in 1922 for the grey cup and went on to win two more cups in 1923 and 1924, including one by the lopsided score of 55-0.
The onset of the Depression in 1929 brought progress at Queen's to a virtual halt, despite the notorious thrift of its administration. Sir William Hamilton Fyfe, Principal from 1930, built a slender base at Queen's for music and the fine arts, but could do little else to advance Queen's in the straitened circumstances of the decade. He handed the reins of the university to Principal Robert Wallace in 1936.
The Second World War followed hard on the heels of the Depression and thrust Queen's back into a world of military discipline and reduced expectations. Although the University did not suffer as it had in the previous war, it made few permanent advances – one notable exception being the establishment of the School of Nursing in 1941.
But the end of the war in 1945 ushered in the greatest period of growth in Queen's history. Between 1945 and Wallace's retirement in 1951, it opened the School of Physical and Health Education and a new building for Mechanical Engineering. After fire swept through the old Students' Memorial Union in 1947, the university built a new student centre, known today as the John Deutsch University Centre.
In the 1950s, the pace of growth quickened, propelled by the expanding postwar economy and the first stirrings of the demographic boom that peaked in the 1960s. During the Principalship of William Mackintosh (1951-1961) enrolment increased from just over 2000 students to more than 3000. The University embarked on an ambitious building program, constructing five student residences in less than ten years. In 1956 Agnes Etherington – widow of a former Dean of Medicine – donated her large Georgian-style house on University Avenue to Queen's for the "furthering of art and music" at the university. Named in her honour, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre has since grown into one of Canada's leading art galleries. Following the reorganization of legal education in Ontario in the mid-1950s, Queen's Faculty of Law opened in 1957 in the newly-built John A. Macdonald Hall. Other major additions to Queen's in the 1950s were the construction of Richardson Hall to house Queen's administrative offices and Dunning Hall, which housed the School of Business until September 2002.
The terms of Principals James Corry (1961-1968) and John Deutsch (1968-1974) saw continued growth. With baby boomers knocking at the door and public funding flowing generously, Queen's – like most other Canadian universities – more than tripled its enrolment and greatly expanded its faculty, staff, and facilities. By the mid-1970s, the number of full-time students had reached 10,000. Among the new facilities were three more residences and separate buildings for the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Psychology, and Computing and for the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The period also saw the establishment at Queen's of Schools of Music, Public Administration (now part of Policy Studies), Rehabilitation Therapy, and Urban and Regional Planning.
The biggest development was the establishment of the Faculty of Education in 1968 on land about a kilometre west of the University. This was the beginning of Queen's West Campus, which also holds several residences and Queen's football stadium, moved from the main campus in 1971. Principal Deutsch put a brake on enrolment during his term (1968-1974) to safeguard the traditional personal character of education at Queen's. He believed that a full-time enrolment of about 10,000 would be large enough for Queen's to offer a wide range of programs while retaining its sense of community. Since then the appropriate balance has been found at a slightly higher enrolment, reaching about 13,000 full-time students in the 1990s.This decision to restrict growth, as well as a sharp reduction in public funding to universities, made the decade between 1974 and 1984, in the words of Principal Ronald Watts, one of "constraint, consolidation, and constructive change." In 1978, work was finished on Botterell Hall, a nine-storey medical sciences and library building next to Kingston General Hospital. Several other buildings were expanded. And though the number of students levelled out, the number of applications soared, allowing Queen's to develop what are now the highest undergraduate admission standards in Canada. Queen's also worked successfully throughout the decade to improve graduate studies and research, increasing both the quantity and the quality of its graduate students.
Under the leadership of Principal David Smith(1984-1994), Queen's worked to maintain its high graduate and undergraduate standards. It sought as well to build on its roots as a place that welcomes students from all parts of Canadian society and from around the world. As part of a small construction boom, the university built a new School of Policy Studies and a five-storey technology centre (Walter Light Hall). The most important project on campus in the early 1990s was the $48 million Stauffer Library at the corner of Union Street and University Avenue. A dramatic development off campus was the donation of England's historic Herstmonceux Estate, complete with a 15th-century moated castle, to Queen's in 1993 by alumnus Alfred Bader. The estate serves as the International Study Centre for Queen's.
In September 1994, Principal Smith was succeeded by Dr. William Leggett, a former Vice-Principal at McGill University. Under Dr. Leggett's tenure, the construction boom has continued, beginning with the construction of the Biosciences Complex, the new home to the Department of Biology, in 1996. In 2000, the university completed renovations on the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre. From 1998 to 2000, the Queen's Board of Trustees has approved the construction of a number of new facilities on campus, including Chernoff Hall, the new home to the Department of Chemistry; Beamish-Munroe Hall the new Integrated Learning Centre, home to a revamped Applied Science program; and the Cancer Research Institute, the new home of the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Trials Group. The Board also approved a major renovation and expansion to the Victoria School, re-named Goodes Hall, the new home of the Queen's School of Business. Plans were also finalized for at least two new student residences on the lower campus.
One of the most significant changes at Queen's in the 1990s was the re-alignment of the Vice-Principal portfolios. In 1995, Principal Leggett announced the new portfolios: Vice-Principal (Academic), Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance), Vice-Principal (Research), Vice-Principal (Advancement), and Vice-Principal (Health Sciences). As well, several responsibilities previously in the portfolios of various Vice-Principals were modified and amalgamated into the position of Dean of Student Affairs, which was set up to specifically serve the needs of the student population in 1995. The Dean of Student Affairs currently reports to the Vice-Principal (Academic). This re-alignment of responsibilities was accompanied by the elimination of the position of Dean of Women and the establishment, in 1996, of the position of University Advisor on Equity.
Funding challenges in the late 1990s included drastic cuts in base funding from the provincial government, as well as the deregulation of tuition in the professional programs of Law, Medicine, Commerce and Applied Science. Targeted funding programs have become increasingly the norm in recent years, with curriculum and enrolments being influenced by such initiatives as as the Ontario government's engineering and computing-focused Access to Opportunities Program (ATOP). Infrastructure costs have been similarly targeted through such programs as the federally funded Canada Foundation for Innovation and the provincial SuperBuild program.
The need for
increased funding is also being addressed through the Office of
Advancement's Campaign
for Queen's, launched in October 2000. The Campaign goal is
to raise $200 milllion for a vast range of priorities, from new
facilities to faculty recruitment, student aid and curriculum enhancements.
Hockey, first game of. Queen's students played their first game of hockey in 1886 against cadets from the Royal Military College. This game on Kingston Harbour is sometimes referred to as the first hockey game in Canada. In fact, the game had been played for some years in Quebec, and students from McGill had also travelled to Ontario to play exhibition games in Ottawa. But this game appears to have been the first between two Ontario teams. Queen's won the game 1-0 on a goal that depended on a quirk of the converted recreational rink on which it was played. On a headlong rush down the ice, Queen's Lennox Irving feigned skating left around a large bandstand which stood in the middle of the rink and then dashed to the right, leaving RMC's defencemen lost on the other side. He skated alone at the goal, took a quick shot at the goalie, and swiped the rebound through the posts. The game is commemorated every year by the popular historic hockey series on the harbour ice.
Honorary Degrees. Queen's honours national and international luminaries and people who have played an exceptional role in the university's development with five different kinds of honorary degree. These are the Doctorate of Laws (LLD), now the most frequently awarded; the Doctorate of Science (DSc), awarded to some but not all of the distinguished scientists who receive honorary degrees, depending on their preference; the Doctorate of Divinity (DD), officially conferred by the university, but presented at the separate spring convocations of the affiliated, but officially distinct, theological college; and the rarely awarded Honorary Master of Arts (MA Hon) and Master of Science (MSc Hon) degrees, given to members of Queen's non-academic staff who have made exceptional contributions to the University. The first three degrees – the LLD, DSC and DD – are always honorary; none of these degrees are ever conferred at Queen's "by examination."
The Doctorate of Divinity is the oldest of the five. Queen's granted its first honorary degrees, Doctorate of Divinity degrees, in 1858 to two prominent Presbyterian clergymen: the Rev James C. Muir and the Rev Alexander MacGillivray. A more famous name was called when Queen's awarded its first Doctorate of Laws degree in 1863: these went to Sir John A. Macdonald and the Rev Michael Willis. The Doctorate of Science degree was first awarded more recently, in 1951, to William Percy Dobson, a prominent Ontario Hydro researcher. The first Honorary Master of Science degree was awarded in 1953, to staff-member Ronald Bradfield, and the first Honorary Master of Arts degree in 1970 to staff-member Kathleen Healey. Before that, in 1897, there was another notable first, this time a national one: Queen's became the first university in Canada to grant an honorary degree to a woman. She was the Countess of Aberdeen, founding President of the National Council of Women, founder of the Victorian Order of Nurses, and wife of Governor General the Earl Aberdeen; she was granted a Doctorate of Laws.
Canadian Governors General and Prime Ministers have been favourite candidates for Queen's honorary degrees, and most have received them, the latest being Pierre Trudeau (1968) and Ramon Hnatyshyn (1991). Other prominent national and international figures so honoured have been Prince George, later George V (1901), Andrew Carnegie (1906), Alexander Graham Bell (1909), Prince Edward, later Edward VII (1919), Stephen Leacock (1919), President Franklin Roosevelt (1938), Eleanor Roosevelt (1948), Robertson Davies (1962), Northrop Frye (1962), United Nations Secretary General U Thant (1965), John Kenneth Galbraith (1967), Lorne Greene (1971), Tommy Douglas (1972), Margaret Atwood (1974), Oscar Peterson (1976), Prince Charles (1991), Donald Sutherland (1995), Carol Shields (1996), The Right Honourable Hal Jackman (1997), Madam Justice Louise Arbour (1999), and Atom Egoyan (2000). The Senate committee on Honorary Degrees considers all nominations for honorary degrees, recommends a list of recipients to the Senate and also advises the Senate on general policies relating to honorary degrees.
Hoods. The hood as an academic vestment is distinctly British and is worn by graduates of English-speaking universities all over the world, including Queen's. In its original form it was the upper part of the cowl worn by the monks and friars of the middle ages. The hood covered the head during inclement weather and in the draughty cloisters when taking exercise. Hoods are only worn at Queen's during convocations.
Human Resources. This department, called Personnel Services until 1992, is responsible for a variety of activities having to do with the university's role as an employer. The Human Resources department is responsible for providing a broad range of services to university departments including: staff recruitment and selection, orientation for staff and department heads, compensation and benefits management, staff development, employee/labour relations management for non-unionized and unionized groups, human resource policy development and administration, payroll services, organizational effectiveness, back to work program for employees returning from short or long term sick leave; participating in the employee assistance program; and maintaining the Human Resources Information System. The Department is located in Richardson Hall and responsible to the Associate Vice-Principal (Human Services) who reports to the Vice-Principal (Operations and Finance). See also Employment Equity.
Human Rights Office. Established in 1992, the Human Rights Office is an independent Office with broad responsibilities for developing educational programs and recommending policies on human rights issues for the university community. It also provides support and advice for individuals who are facing issues of harassment or discrimination. The Human Rights Office and its staff operate under the direction and authority of the Queen's University Harassment and Discrimination Policy and Procedure (a Senate document) and reports directly to Queen's Senate. The Office is staffed by a director, three human rights advisors and an administrative assistant. The Office also works closely with volunteer advisors, who may also assist individuals with harassment/discrimination issues, as well as an advisory council that reviews the Office's operation. The Council includes individuals representing the interests of students, staff and faculty as well as the Kingston community. The Office is located in the Old Medical Building.
Humphrey Hall Completed in 1969, this hall houses the main part of Queen's Department of Psychology. The rest of the department is located in the attached Craine Hall. It is named in honour of George Humphrey, Professor of Psychology from 1924 to 1947 and a long-time head of the department. It is located on arch street just north of the Medical Quadrangle.