Academics

  • 8 years 1 month ago

Provost releases HLTH 102 findings

Two weeks after being asked to evaluate complaints about Melody Torcolacci’s teaching of HLTH 102 — in which, students alleged, she taught anti-vaccination viewpoints — Provost Alan Harrison has released the results of his information-gathering.Continue...

A slide from Melody Torcolacci's lecture on vaccines. The slide cites the National Vaccine Information Center, an American anti-vaccine advocacy group.
  • 8 years 1 month ago

Admin aware of Torcolacci problems in 2011

Though Principal Daniel Woolf was unaware of complaints against Melody Torcolacci’s teaching until Wednesday morning, a former student claims the University was made aware of the complaints he filed in 2011.Continue...
  • 8 years 4 months ago

More to English

“English … ah.”Continue...
  • 8 years 4 months ago

Revising exam study strategies

Many students focus on rote memorization and cramming to prepare for exams — but these strategies are rarely the most helpful, according to education professor John Kirby.Continue...

Students are no longer required to pay ancillary fees for certain classroom items that they can't keep.
  • 8 years 5 months ago

Unnecessary fees eliminated

The AMS has reached an agreement with the University to eradicate wrongfully charged course fees that aren’t justified or permitted under provincial guidelines dictating the charging of ancillary fees.Continue...

A computer science lecture in the basement of Macdonald Hall.
  • 8 years 6 months ago

Lecture halls prepare for a face-lift

An instructor stands at the front of an auditorium, lecturing to dozens or hundreds of students. This is the basis of many university courses — but it can be ineffective.Continue...

The library occupancy app has a 98 per cent accuracy rate.
  • 9 years 1 month ago

Library app counts occupancy

Stauffer Library now has an online tool that will tell students how much space is available in the library, but it’s quite different from what AMS executive team JDL promised in 2012.Continue...

Queen’s, while commonly known for its excellence in undergraduate degrees, is also home to some of the most cutting edge research in Canada
  • 9 years 2 months ago

According to the research

You can’t have teaching without research and vice versa, according to John Smol.Continue...

The Queen’s Exams Office scheduled 629 exams during last April’s exam season — many students also have in-class exams or cumulative projects, which can create stress for students.
  • 9 years 3 months ago

Exam questions

Queen’s biology professor Robert Montgomerie doesn't see the value of exams.Continue...

This cartoon, “The Rhodes Colossus,” from the 1890s shows Cecil Rhodes linking Africa from north to south, showing his looming presence over the continent.
  • 9 years 5 months ago

Roads must diverge from Rhodes

Bill Clinton went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. Bill Clinton went to Oxford on the profits of rampant colonialism.Continue...

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