From growing class sizes to an increasing reliance on technology, the future of undergraduate education is changing.
Economics Professor H. Lorne Carmichael spoke to a sparsely populated lecture hall yesterday morning.
Almost 200 students skipped class, with 136 of the 317 students registered in Econ 110 in attendance at 8:30 a.m.
Carmichael said his students’ background in economics differs, which results in poor attendance.

Richard Day never wanted to become a professor.
The assistant sociology professor said he believes that everyone gives up his or her power to choose
apathy. One example of this is working for someone else. “I’m giving away my power … by working at Queen’s,” Day told the Journal. “I’m a ward of the state.”

Ever since 1972, when Dr. Jack Preger graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin and ventured to Bangladesh to provide medical assistance to refugees of the Indo-Pakistan War, he has worked tirelessly to help the sick and impoverished in the region. In 1979 he traveled to Kolkata, set up an illegal street clinic, and started the Calcutta Rescue Foundation. Today, the group provides free medical care and education to the poorest people in Kolkata and rural West Bengal.

If students want a better in-class experience, then universities need more professors or fewer students, said Kim Nossal, head of the political studies department, at Sunday’s Great Debate.
The debate, organized by the AMS advancement and development office, featured Queen’s professors and provincial politicians discussing the state of post-secondary education in Canada.

When geography professor Audrey Kobayashi returned to Queen’s four years ago after months in the hospital, she got a rude awakening: because she was in a wheelchair, she couldn’t get into many campus buildings, including her own office and many of her classrooms in Mackintosh-Corry Hall. When it came to her lecture hall at room B201 in Mac-Corry, gaining accessibility was a bit more difficult, because it was only accessible from the back.

Since 1995, the group of 12-year-olds has grown into an international organization—Free the Children—that has built 450 primary schools in more than 40 countries in an attempt to give every child the opportunity to get an education.

After opting out of the Maclean’s rankings this summer, the University will standardize information about its enrollment, class sizes and other variables for current and prospective students. Queen’s was one of 22 universities to opt out of the Maclean’s annual university survey in August.
Principal Karen Hitchcock said the University will continue to offer a detailed source of information about Queen’s, and students can make their own judgments about the universities based on the information given.

In the event of an influenza pandemic, the University has a planned strategy, which includes providing adequate resources for campus services, prioritizing patients at the health centre, and communicating with students, staff and faculty about how to deal with influenza.

The AMS has about 50 rooms within the JDUC, Macgillivray-Brown Hall and the Grey House, but there’s no “air-tight” way to keep track of who has keys to what. There is also no way to guarantee that individuals are not making copies of their keys before returning them.

Wendy Spiegel, spokesperson for Pearson Education, a textbook publisher, said textbook prices vary reatly according to the book and the discipline it covers. “Textbook pricing … [depends] upon what the ultimate deliverable is,” she said. Costs relating to raw materials, intellectual property, art and design ll are factored into a textbook’s price, Spiegel said, and different types of textbooks have very different cost breakdowns.

Leo Jonker is out to change the way Queen’s students learn. Appointed the university’s first chair of teaching and learning in May, Jonker has a budget of $20,000 to develop initiatives meant to help students get more out of their formal education.

The Queen’s rugby team raised about $12,000 for breast cancer research research. The team was among 1,841 participants in the 15th annual Canadian Breast Councer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure.
Korin Flindall, co-director of Kingston’s Run for the Cure, said their preliminary fundraising figure was about $210,000.