Category Archives: SGPS (Society of Graduate and Professional Students)

SGPS Appeal: Holiday Assistance Program (9 November 2012)

As emailed to campus lists by the Queen’s Society of Graduate and Professional Students, 9 November 2012: With the holiday season fast approaching, a number of our students face additional hardships. In particular, students with dependents struggle as they are … Continue reading

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Mark Jones, Review of the Structure of Faculty Board: A Counter-Proposition with Two Motions (7 March 2012)

As submitted on 7 March 2012 to the Arts and Science Faculty Board Agenda Committee for the Agenda of 16 March 2012 (except that an error in fn 2 has been subsequently corrected).  See also the Dean’s Discussion Paper: A … Continue reading

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Queen’s Journal: Lawyer to revisit BFA decision (2 March 2012)

By Savoula Stylianou. As published in Queen’s Journal, 2 March 2012. University will hire lawyer to examine Fine Art suspension [photo caption:] Students and members of Occupy Queen’s protested outside Senate on Tuesday in support of the BFA program as Principal Woolf … Continue reading

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Two Student Resolutions Oppose Queen’s BFA Admissions Freeze (December 2011)

The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) unanimously passed the following motion at its national general meeting in early December:

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