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United, The
University Advisor on Equity
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University Club at Queen´s
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University Day
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Underground Parking Garage. Completed in 1972, this parking lot opposite Kingston General Hospital has space for 500 cars and offers the only short-term, hourly-rate parking on main campus. When the lot was built, the huge amounts of limestone rubble that were excavated were dumped into Lake Ontario south of Queen's main campus and used as the base for an extension of the waterfront park there. The lot extends from stuart street to south of kingston hall underneath kingston field. The main entrance is located opposite the west end of KGH. It is administered by Queen's Physical Plant Services.
Union Gallery.A student-run gallery located in Stauffer Library, the Union Gallery plays host to a wide variety of artistic and creative works produced by students throughout the year. Raised through student donations to the Queen's Challenge, this $340,000 facility built in 1994 helps Bachelor of Fine Art students display their works in an exhibitionary format, as well as provide greater cultural and artistic awareness of both Queen's and Kingston-area art shows. The gallery also organizes shows in the Biosciences Complex and the Victoria Hall Common Room.
Union Street. One of Queen's main arteries, this street runs between Barrie Street and Portsmouth village and connects the main campus with west campus. Before the 1920s, Queen's entire campus lay south of Union Street. Today, the northern side of the street between Barrie Street and Frontenac Street is lined with Queen's buildings and the street's intersection with university avenue is the busiest point on campus.
Union Street,131. Built in 1969 and torn down in 1992, 131 Union Street was a temporary office building which lasted far longer than originally intended. The barn-shaped, aluminum-clad building was built as the first home of Queen's Faculty of Education, as it awaited the completion of its facilities on West Campus. When the faculty moved out it was taken over by a variety of staff departments that had run out of space, including Public Relations, Student Awards, High School Liaison, and Admissions. It was torn down to make way for the Stauffer Library.
Unions. There is one union active on campus, the Canadian Union of Public Employees. CUPE has three campus locals that represent about 625 employees. The locals promote the interests of their members in the areas of wages, benefits, hours of work, and other working conditions. They negotiate periodic agreements with the human resources department of the university. These unions are The Kingston Heating and Maintenance Workers' Union (cupe Local 229); The Kingston Technician's Union (cupe Local 254) who represents full- time employees who work in a technical capacity in teaching and research labs, lab shops, and other related areas, and Cupe Local 1302 represents university employees working as library technicians in Queen's libraries and the archives. There are also two cupe units that represent non-university employees of organizations that provide services to Queen's. CUPE's campus office is located in Carruthers Hall.
United,The. The Alma Mater Society's first international and community-oriented newspaper, The United was founded by a student in 1998. The paper deals with issues at Queen's that involve a broader international focus, as well as being a forum for works of student journalism.
University Advisor on Equity.The position of University Advisor on Equity (UAE) was established in 1996 as part of a university-wide restructuring of equity and human-rights initiatives at Queen's. The position was one of several recommendations contained in an internal review of equity and human rights initiatives and services at Queen's. The review was initiated in February, 1995 by Principal Bill Leggett, who expressed the need for better coordination and greater effectiveness in equity efforts across the university. The changes were implemented on the advice of external consultants as well as an internal, university-wide committee, and resulted in three distinct equity structures at Queen's: the University Advisor on Equity; the Senate Committee on Educational Equity; and the Council on Employment Equity. The university's first University Advisor on Equity, Mary Margaret Dauphinee, was appointed to a five-year term commencing July 1, 1998. Working with university officials, the Senate Educational Equity Committee and the Council on Employment Equity, the UAE is responsible for ensuring that equity is achieved throughout the university. The Office of the UAE acts as an information and educational resource on equity issues; it identifies gaps in policy areas and services, and facilitates the development of policies, procedures and programs to ensure equity; it coordinates equity resources; and it promotes cultural change so that equity becomes everyone's responsibility. Assisting the University Advisor on Equity are two complementary equity bodies at Queen's. The Council on Employment Equity, established in 1989, works to ensure equity in hiring and human resource policies and practices at the university. As well as monitoring, reviewing and recommending policy, practices and information, the council is also responsible for seeing that the university's policies conform with provincial and federal regulations, and that they fulfil the requirements of the Federal Contractors' Program. The Senate Educational Equity Committee, established in 1997, recommends, monitors and reviews equity policies in relation to the academic mission of the university. Membership of both committees includes faculty, staff, students and members of under-represented groups. Members are normally appointed for two years, and may serve two consecutive terms.
University Avenue. This is the central artery of Queen's main campus. Below union street, it divides the university into two rough halves and is lined by many of Queen's most important buildings. The street looks as if it were always meant to be the university's central thoroughfare. However, prior to the 1950s, University Avenue only marked Queen's western edge. The campus began in 1853 in the area immediately surrounding summerhill and, for half a century, it remained there. University Avenue, meanwhile, developed into one of Kingston's most prestigious residential streets. Its western side, in particular, was lined with large and gracious homes, the only remaining example of which is the agnes etherington art centre. Under extreme pressure to expand, Queen's spread to the eastern side of the avenue in the early years of this century, building ontario hall in 1903, grant hall in 1905, and douglas library in 1924. The first Queen's building on the western edge of the avenue (ban righ hall) was built in 1925, but it was not until the 1950s that development in the area took off. More than 25 major buildings have been either constructed or bought on the west side of the avenue since then, many of them preceded by the demolition old homes. Running down the centre of the University Avenue is a row of maples and flowering crab apple trees. North of union street, the avenue runs through the heart of the student housing area.
University Club at Queen's. Called the Faculty Club until 1994, this social club offers year-round facilities for dining and relaxing for members and their guests. Faculty, administrators, alumni and full-time staff are eligible to join, and the club's facilities are also available to non-members for catered special events. Officially a non-profit corporation, the club's full name is the University Club at Queen's, Inc. It was founded as the Faculty Club in 1949, and first met in the students' memorial union. In 1969 it moved to its present home, a striking waterfront house at 168 Stuart Street. The main part of this house was built in 1845 by prominent Kingston architect William Coverdale as a country home for a wealthy Kingstonian, the Rev William Macauley Herchmer, who called it St. Lawrence Cottage. A later owner substaintially altered the building in 1934, creating its present exterior appearance and room layout. A large addition was built at the rear of the building in 1968-69 to accomodate the Faculty Club. In 1994, following a trend in similar university clubs across Canada, the club changed its name and also broadened membership eligibility to include all full-time staff.
University Council. Often described as "Queen's in microcosm", Council's primary functions are to act as an advisory body to the University as a whole to elect the Chancellor, and to choose six members of the Board of Trustees. It also oversees bylaws for the election of the Rector by students and the election of Trustees by the graduates, the benefactors, the students, the faculty and the staff. It was created in 1874 to provide a body where matters of mutual interest to the Board of Trustees, Senate and the graduates relating to the welfare of the University might be reviewed and discussed. (For the story of the university's convoluted quest in the 1870s and 1880s to have the Council officially enshrined in law, see entry on Royal Charter.) As an advisory body, the Council has in recent years devoted its annual meetings to the discussion of some special aspect of the university, such as Accessibility and Diversity, Accountability, Advancement and Corporate Involvement. It consists of all Trustees (44), all Senators (69) and an equal number of elected graduates (113). Annually, the Council recognizes a maximum of six "members of the Queen's family" who have made a distinctive contribution to the University by awarding Distinguished Service Awards. This award carries with it honorary life membership on the University Council. The Council is chaired by the Chancellor and meets annually for an all day session prior to the May meeting of the Trustees. It has two standing committees: a Program Committee (with membership changing annually according to the planned theme of the year's meeting) and an elected Executive Committee which meets at least twice a year and is empowered to transact specific business on behalf of the Council between its annual meetings. Please see Secretariat, Board of Trustees and Senate.
University Day. Queen's was granted its royal charter on 16 October 1841, and later that year October 16 was established as University Day to commemorate the occasion. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, University Day was celebrated with a series of track and field competitions for students (including some traditional Scottish events such as the caber toss) and was a much anticipated date on the university calendar. The festive atmosphere of those competitions is captured in the old novel miriam of queen's, which describes university life at the turn of the century. Despite periodic attempts to revive the holiday, it has not been widely or enthusiastically celebrated since the Second World War. However, during Queen's sesquicentennial celebrations in 1991, University Day was the occasion of numerous festivities, including a visit from then Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn.
University Secretariat.See Secretary of the University, Board of Trustees and Senate.
Urban and Regional Planning, School of. The school was established in 1970. It offers professional graduate studies in land use planning, housing and real estate development, and human and environmental services. It also offers professional advice to citizens' groups, public agencies, and municipal governments in towns and cities across Eastern Ontario. The school is led by a director. It is located in the policy studies building and participates in the School of Policy Studies. It is administered by the School of graduate studies and research.
Degrees: Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MPL)
Urology, Department of. This department in the Faculty of medicine was founded in 1961 and fully accredited for the training of urologists in 1972. It is one of the premier centres of urological studies in Canada and has achieved recognition, in particular, for its research into tumours in the urinary system, the microbial ecology of the urinary tract, and sexual dysfunction. The department offers a broad range of urological services to hospitals in Kingston and to neighbouring communities through satellite clinics in Prince Edward and Lennox and Addington counties. The department, which has its administrative offices in Kingston General Hospital, has about 10 full-time faculty.