Queen's University
queen,s University established Q from Queen Victoria.The first classes, intended to prepare students for the ministry, were held 7 March 1842 with 13 students and two professors.[12] Queen's was the first university west of the maritime provinces women, and to form a student government. In 1883, a women's college for medical education affiliated with Queen's University was established. In 1888, Queen's University began offering extension courses, becoming the first Canadian university to do so.[1] In 1912, Queen's secularized and changed to its present legal name.Queen's is a co-educational university, with more than 23,000 students, and with over 131,000 living alumni worldwide.[5][13] Notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders and 56 Rhodes Scholars.[14]The university was ranked 4th in Canada by University Ranking Guide for 2015, 206th [15] 251–300th in the 2015–2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings,[16] and 201–300 in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities.[17] Queen's varsity teams, known as the Golden Gaels, compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference of the Canadian Sport.Queen's was a result of an outgrowth of educational initiatives planned by Presbyterians in the. A draft plan for the university was presented at a synod meeting in Kingston in 1839, with a modified bill introduced through the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada during a session in 1840.[18] On 16 October 1841, a royal charter was issued through Queen Victoria. Queen's resulted from years of effort by Presbyterians of Upper Canada to found a college for the education of ministers in the growing colony and to instruct the youth in various branches of science and literature. They the university after the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow.[1] Classes began on 7 March 1842, in a small wood-frame house on the edge of the city with two professors and 15 students.[19]The college moved several times during its first eleven years, before settling in its present location.[1] Prior to Canadian Confederation, the college was financially supported by the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, the Canadian government and private citizens. After Confederation the college faced ruin when the federal government withdrew its funding and the Commercial Bank of the Midland District collapsed, a disaster which cost Queen's two-thirds of its endowment. The college was rescued after Principal William and other officials created a fundraising campaign across Canada.[1][20]The risk of financial ruin continued to worry the administration until the final decade of the century.They actively considered leaving Kingston and merging with of Toronto as late as the.[1] With the additional funds bequeathed from Queen's first major benefactor, Robert Sutherland, the college staved off financial failure and maintained its independence.[21] Queen's was given university status on 17 May 1881.[12] In 1883, Women's Medical College was founded at Queen's with a class of three.[12] Theological Hall,
In 1912, Queen's separated from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and changed its name to Queen's University at Kingston.[1] Queen's Theological College remained in the control of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, until 1925, when it joined the United Church of Canada, where it remains today.[10] The university faced another financial crisis during World War I, from a sharp drop in due to the military enlistment of students, staff, and faculty. A $1,000,000 fundraising drive and the armistice in 1918 saved the university.[1] Approximately 1,500 students participated in the war and 187 died.[23]Months before Canada joined World War II, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, came to Queen's to accept an honorary degree and, in a broadcast heard around the world, voiced the American policy of mutual alliance and friendship with Canada.[24] During World War II, 2,917 graduates from Queen's served in the armed forces, suffering 164 fatalities.[25] The Queen's grew quickly after the war, propelled by the expanding postwar economy and the demographic boom that peaked in the From 1951 to 1961 increased from just over 2,000 students to more than 3,000.[1] The university embarked on a building program, constructing five student residences in less than ten years.Following the reorganization of legal education in Ontario in the mid, Queen's Faculty of Law opened in 1957 in the newly built John A. Hall. Other construction projects at Queen's in the included the construction of Richardson Hall to house Queen's administrative offices, and Dunning Hall.[1] By the end of , like many other universities in Canada, Queen's tripled its and greatly expanded its faculty, staff, and facilities, as a result of the baby boom and generous support from the public sector. By the mid-, the number of full-time students had reached 10,000.[1] Among the new facilities were three more residences and separate buildings for the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Psychology, Social Sciences and the Humanities.The university grounds lies within the of Queen's in the city of Kingston, Ontario.[36] The university's main campus is bordered to the south by Lake Ontario, Kingston General Hospital to the southeast, city parks to the east, and by residential known as the Kingston student ghetto or the university district, in all other directions. The campus grew to its present size of 40 ha (99 acres) through gradual acquisitions of adjacent private lands, and remains the university's largest landholding. The campus's original site and holds the majority of its facilities. In addition to its main campus in Kingston, Queen's owns several other properties around Kingston, as well as in Central Frontenac Township, Ontario, Lakes, Ontario, and East Sussex, England.[6]The buildings at Queen's vary in age, opened in 1839, to the new Queen's School of Medicine building, which opened in 2011.[37][38] Grant Hall, completed in 1905, is considered the university's most recognizable landmark. It is named after Rev. George Munro Grant who served as Queen's seventh principal. The building is used to host concerts, lectures, meetings, exams, and convocations.[35] Two buildings owned and managed by the university have been listed Historic Sites of Canada. The Kingston General Hospital is the oldest operating public hospital in Canada.[39] The House, which is located east of the west campus, is the core component of the university's Donald Gordon .