Creating an Innovative Approach to Business Education
This has been an extraordinary and disruptive time, but the entire Smith School of Business team is focused on health and safety while keeping our operations, services and activities moving forward. We are working together to continue offering and delivering high-quality education and ensuring our students, faculty, and staff remain supported. Navigating this crisis has provided an opportunity for us to leverage our innovative approach to business education and lead in our distance learning endeavors.
Although there will be challenges still to come, we know and appreciate that this time has been no less disruptive for you, your colleagues, friends, and families – we really are in this together. The priorities are the health and safety of our community and ensuring high-quality education.
This a challenging time for all. We are grateful for the Smith Community and appreciative of your willingness to help.
Brenda Brouwer, PhD
Dean (Interim)
Exchange Support
During the 2019/2020 academic year our exchange program worked tirelessly to support the return of students from the geopolitical situation in Hong Kong in November and then again support the return of 370 students in March due to Covid-19. Given the urgency of these returns, our students faced tight timelines to leave and incurred unbelievable incremental costs. As you can imagine this is not something they anticipated or budgeted for.
Angela James
Director, Centre for International Management at Smith School of Business
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigenization (EDII) Fund
Smith School of Business at Queen’s University is committed to cultivating a vibrant, diverse and inclusive academic and work environment rooted in a culture of mutual respect and equity such that all members of our community feel safe, possess a strong sense of belonging and are empowered to thrive. We recognize that access, equity and inclusion are vital to our school's future and to developing global citizens with the broad knowledge, skills, and perspectives needed to contribute meaningfully to society as well as advancements in business. To aid in achieving our EDII goals we must expand our efforts and accelerate the implementation of meaningful EDII-related changes.
To support our commitment, Smith has established an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigenization (EDII) task force that will develop and execute a plan for sustainable change to eradicate systemic barriers in Smith including those embedded in policies and processes, recruitment and admissions, program structure, curriculum and non-systemic barriers by building awareness and understanding of the issues. Read more about the task force here.
Smith has also established an EDII fund to provide an opportunity for our community to support initiatives leading to impactful and meaningful change within our school.
Donations to this fund will support EDII-related actions initiated by Smith School of Business, primarily through recommendations from the EDII Task Force and its associated working groups and program-based committees.
There is much work ahead; our capacity and success in effecting sustainable change is enhanced when we come together as a community and share the responsibility to make a difference. We are grateful for our Smith Community and your desire to help.
Thank You!
In the age of COVID-19, the world has shifted rapidly, with uncertainty and disruption across all aspects of Higher Education, including teaching and research. We have had to change how we provide learning and conduct research at an extraordinary pace and scale. At Smith, we thank all our supporters for their leadership in helping us continue to engage in teaching excellence and research.
Dr. Julian Barling
Borden Chair of Leadership, and Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Smith School of Business
