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Taylor, The Rev Robert Bruce
Telecom
and Networks
Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario
Telephone Aid Line Kingston
Tenure
Theological College, Queen´s
Theological Hall
Theological Society
Tindall, Frank
Tindall Field
Tricolour
Tricolour Yearbook
Taylor, The Rev Robert Bruce (1869-1955). Taylor was Queen's ninth principal (1917-1929) and the last who was a presbyterian minister. He was born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland and educated at Glasgow University and the Universities of Marburg and Gottingen in Germany. He served as a minister in various parishes in Scotland and England from 1896 until 1911, when he came to Canada to take charge of St Paul's Church in Montreal, where he quickly gained a reputation as one of the country's foremost preachers. Largely on the strength of this reputation, he was appointed Principal of Queen's in 1917. After Queen's separated from the presbyterian church in 1912, it was no longer required that Principals be ministers, but Taylor's background was comforting for a university that had never had any other type of leader. He soon proved an effective fundraiser – always an important part of the principalship – and had good relations with faculty and students for most of his term. But he did not enjoy the administrative aspects of the job and left that work to others wherever possible. The main achievements of his term were the building of douglas library in 1924 and the expansion of professional and scientific education at the university, including the first commerce courses in Canada. His term ended on a low note after students went on a brief strike in March 1928 to protest the suspension of three students who had organized an unsanctioned dance in downtown Kingston. Queen's trustees were displeased with his handling of the situation and when Taylor learned of this he chose to resign. He died in France in 1955. His papers are held at Queen's Archives.
Telecom
and Networks.
This office coordinates and supports telecom and networks at
Queen's. Its largest responsibility is to maintain the telephone
system. Its staff install, repair, and change the telephones, produce
the staff telephone directory, and bill for long-distance calls,
meridian mail, equipment rentals, as well as installing ethernet
connections. The office also provides copper and fibre optic cables
to link computers across campus. It is part of Information Technology
Services (see entry on Information
Technology Services for more information). It is responsible
to the Vice-Principal
(Operations and Finance) and located in the Jemmett Wing of
Fleming
Hall.
Telecommunications Research Institute of Ontario (TRIO). This provincial centre of excellence has its headquarters in Kanata, but it also has an office at Queen's that coordinates the work of the Queen's researchers who participate in the institute. The institute is dedicated to enhancing the technological competitiveness of Canadian telecommunications companies by creating world-class technology relevant and transferable to Canadian industry, and by increasing the number of trained researchers in Ontario in the telecommunications field. The institute unites more than 400 faculty members and graduate students at Queen's, McMaster, Carleton, and the University of Ottawa. At Queen's, research is focussed in the areas of mobile and satellite communications, lightwave communications, and software for telecommunications and telecommunications networks. It involves researchers in the Departments of electrical engineering and computing and information science. TRIO's Queen's office is located in Goodwin Hall.
Telephone Aid Line Kingston. TALK, founded in 1973 by a Queen's student, is a support, crisis, and information line serving the Queen's and Kingston communities (544-1771). It belongs to the Queen's Student and Community Services Group (see Grey House), and many of its volunteers are Queen's students. TALK is staffed by trained volunteers from 7pm to 3am weekdays and until noon on weekends, and handles more than 9,000 calls a year. Calls range in content from crisis situations (including suicide, child abuse, sexual assault, spousal abuse, and multiple personality response), to people seeking information about other community services. Many callers do not have a specific concern, but are simply want to share a lonely, sad, or joyous moment. TALK also provides workshops on suicide prevention and active listening to any interested groups or organizations.
Tenure. Tenure entitles a faculty member to continued employment at the University until early retirement or the usual retirement age of 65, except under certain extraordinary circumstances. The security that this provides is an important guarantor of academic freedom. Procedures and policies with respect to tenure for members covered by the Collective Agreement between Queen's University and Queen's University Faculty Association (QUFA) (May 1999 to April 2002), are set out in Article 13, Procedures for Personnel Decisions and Article 39, Tenure/Continuing Appointment. The decision to grant tenure is made by the Principal after an examination of a full review of a faculty member's academic record by external assessors and designated internal University personnel. Once tenure has been granted, a faculty member cannot be dismissed, except in two situations. The first involves dismissal of the Member under the terms of Article 20, Discipline, in the Collective Agreement between Queen's University and QUFA with special reference to Article 20.17. The second condition would occur only if University-wide "financial exigency" was declared, according to the specific terms and procedures set out in the Collective Agreement in Article 23, Financial Exigency Leading to Lay Off of Members. The University's policies with respect to the awarding of tenure to faculty who are not members of the bargaining unit under the Collective Agreement between Queen's University and QUFA are set out in regulations passed by the Senate.
Theological College, Queen's. Queen's Theological College is a diverse community of teachers and learners for academic, professional and personal development. Dedicated to critical understanding of the Christian faith and to the preparation of men and women for leadership, it offers several masters and undergraduate degrees, certificate and diploma programs, and a variety of continuing education events. The College also provides the Department of Religious Studies for the Faculty of Arts and Science. Although the college was established in 1912, its roots run all the way back to the founding of the university itself. When the Presbyterian Church founded Queen's in 1841, the main goal of the church was to train ministers for the growing colony of Upper Canada, and more than half of the first class of 13 students in 1842 were engaged in theological study. Theology grew to a full-fledged faculty later in the 19th century, but as Queen's grew, the relative place of theology diminished. In 1912, Queen's separated from the church altogether in order to become eligible for provincial funding as a nondenominational institution, and to complete this transformation the federal government incorporated the Faculty of Theology as a body separate from the university. The new Queen's Theological College was provided with its own Principal and a Board of Management appointed by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. In 1925, the college followed those in the Presbyterian Church who joined The United Church of Canada, so it is now the General Council of The United Church which approves appointments to the Board of Management, all members of which must belong to the church.
The College has remained closely affiliated to the university despite its formally separate status. Although in 1912 the college was given the authority to confer on students its own academic degrees, it has never taken advantage of that authority: it is the senate of the university which officially confers all the college's degrees, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of the college. The Principal of the College is a member of Senate, where its students and faculty are also represented, and the college in recent years has followed Senate procedures with respect to introducing new degree programs. In other areas, however, the college functions autonomously from the university – notably in admissions, appointments, and budgeting (since the late 1970s, the college has received full operating support from the province for its theological programs). It also holds its own separate spring convocation. Although it remains a United Church institution, the college, which has about 15 faculty members, is ecumenical and pluralistic in composition and outlook. Before 1990, the Principal of the college was also the Head of the Department of Religious Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, but since that year the two positions have been distinct. In 1996, the College established a Head of Theological Studies who oversees theological degree, certificate and diploma programs. The College is located in Theological Hall. For more on the history of the Theological College, see The redeemed of the Lord say so, by George Rawlyk and Kevin Quinn.
Theological Degrees: Bachelor of Theology (BTh), Bachelor of Theology in Native Ministry (BTh), Master of Divinity (MDiv), Master of Theology (ThM), Master of Theological Studies (MTS)
Certificate: Theological Studies
Diplomas: Restorative Justice, Rural Ministry, Stewardship
Theological Hall. Constructed in 1879-1880, this building houses Queen's theological college and the Department of drama. It was built with money donated by the citizens of Kingston in the first of what would be many hugely successful fundraising campaigns led by Principal george grant. The Norman Romanesque structure was the university's main building throughout the late 19th century. It housed all arts and science classes and its ornate convocation hall was used for Queen's major ceremonies as well as regular Sunday church services. The rounded west end of the building was the university's library until the early 1900s and remained the medical library until botterell hall was built in the 1970s. Today, the old library and Convocation Hall are theatres. On the second floor of the building is the intimate Morgan Memorial Chapel, named after the late theology professor William Morgan and used for regular United Church services. Hundreds of alumni have been married in the chapel. The building became known as the Old Arts Building around the turn of the century (kingston hall, built in 1903, was the New Arts Building), and although it officially became Theological Hall in 1912 when Queen's Theological College was established, it continued to be widely called the Old Arts Building until the 1970s. The building is set back from stuart street and overlooks the lower campus and Kingston General Hospital. Its cornerstone was laid by the Marquis of Lorne, Governor General of Canada, and his wife Princess Louise, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria.
Theological Society. See faculty societies.
Tindall, Frank (1908-1993). One of the legendary figures in Queen's athletics, and a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, Frank Tindall coached Football and basketball at Queen's from 1947 until 1975. He was born in the United States and was educated at Syracuse University, where he was selected as an All-America football star. He first came to Queen's in 1939 and coached the football team for a single season before the outbreak of the Second World War. He returned to the team when the war was over and quickly made his name as a master strategist and motivator. Under his leadership, Queen's football teams won a total of nine intercollegiate titles. The Frank Tindall trophy is given annually to the top intercollegiate football coach in Canada. tindall field on Queen's main campus is named in his honour.
Tindall Field. This full-sized playing field is located just north of Victoria Hall. It is used for a variety of formal and informal sporting events and for numerous activities during orientation week. It is named after frank tindall, Queen's legendary football coach.
Tricolour. See colours.
Tricolour Yearbook. The Tricolour is one of the few remaining university yearbooks in Canada. It was founded in 1928, taking the place of faculty yearbooks that had been produced annually since around the turn of the century. The Tricolour is published every October and is available to all students who attended Queen's the previous academic year. It contains hundreds of pictures of the year in review and brief descriptions of the year's main academic, social, and sporting events. It also contains photographs of all graduating students. The yearbook is produced entirely by students and is funded by the Alma Mater Society.