Campus Resources and Supports for Teaching and Learning

(*To refer undergraduate students to*) Run by Hospitality Services and Student Affairs. During the academic year, if you don’t have enough money or food, you may access up to 25 meals per semester on campus by being referred to the program. To get referred, you need to connect with a program partner.

PEACH, the Providing Equal Access, Changing Hunger Market is a food-forward initiative operating on a sliding scale. Patrons can select the amount they pay for their food from a list of suggested prices. This operating model strives to uphold people’s dignity and autonomy by providing access to high-quality and nutritious food at a low cost.  

With a fresh menu updated daily, PEACH market welcomes you to stop by to grab a snack or a meal to fuel your day.  

Available for purchase in the Mackintosh-Corry Hall MC2 cafeteria. Anyone (students, staff, faculty) can find a complete and warm meal option in MC2 (near the soups). Whole Bowls are made and delivered fresh daily.

Peer Health Educator volunteers put together $10 Fresh Food Boxes and free Mason Jar Meal kits for students to purchase and pick up throughout the term. Registration is required. 

A local student-run service that provides a variety of freshly prepared meals to any individuals in the Queen’s community. Currently running every Sunday evening from 5:30-6:30pm at Chalmers United Church.

Accessed through the AMS Food Bank. This program provides students with monthly access to fresh produce. Community partners provide 20 boxes free of charge to Queen’s students; further boxes may be purchased through their discounted pricing program.  

In collaboration with instructors and staff, is committed to supporting students with disabilities as they pursue their academic goals. Through encouraging the use of well-implemented Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in combination with individualized academic accommodations, QSAS seeks to work with students and university stakeholders to remove disability related academic barriers.   

Support for registering for academic accommodations 

The Accessibility Hub is a central online resource at Queen’s for accessibility. It serves to elevate inclusion and improve access for everyone on campus. It not only provides support and feedback concerning accessibility initiatives, it also serves as an online community for those seeking information on disability and accessibility issues on campus, and assist the university in meeting its obligations under the AODA.  

Is a safe, comfortable, and accountable space for queer, racialized, and marginalized students to create community, to feel empowered, to empower others, to celebrate, and to honour their histories. Yellow House seeks to engage students in initiatives that actively dismantle oppressive, racist, and colonial ideologies and practices.  

The central role of this office is to help ensure procedural fairness in university decision making.  

They are a resource to the Queen’s community in helping students, staff, faculty, parents, and alumni understand policies and procedures within the university. 

The Levana Gender Advocacy Centre is a student-funded Queen’s University organization committed to creating and nurturing a radical community of Kingston students and residents. Devoted to fighting gender oppression and advocating for broad ideas of gender empowerment for those of any or no gender, Levana operates on anti-oppressive practices.

Faith and Spiritual Life offers multi-faith, non-judgmental support for religious, spiritual, personal, and financial problems, concerns or crises. As part of Student Affairs, Faith and Spiritual Life strives to facilitate a welcoming, peaceful, and safe space. Chaplains can also provide support, ceremonial services, interfaith community development and spiritual support to students, faculty, and staff.

We are faith-positive, spirituality-positive, and queer-positive. We respect and advocate for both freedom of, and freedom from, religion. 

Many sexual and reproductive health services and resources are available at Queen's and in the community. Students are encouraged to reach out to the service and resource providers for more information.

Provides confidential, trauma informed and non-judgmental support for any student who has experienced sexual violence at any time in their life.  

Students do not need to file a report with either the University or with the police in order to access sexual violence prevention and response services.  

Welcomes women of diverse backgrounds and all ages, especially those returning to university after a time away, and offers community, personal, practical, and financial support. The Ban Righ Centre is located at 32 Bader Lane. 

Ban Righ also provides a free soup lunch.  

The Queen’s University International Centre (QUIC) is committed to helping build diverse and inclusive communities for Queen’s students, staff, and faculty.

We provide a great space in the heart of campus to support international students transitioning to Queen’s, with services to encourage a successful student experience.

(External) resources to help manage your time in university. 

A central academic service unit that supports the advancement of teaching and learning at Queen’s in direct support of Queen’s students learning experience.  

For students, Career Services supports students and recent graduates from all faculties and schools. Their team empowers you to explore your skills and to make informed decisions for your future. They work with you to find the right path for you that will set you up for the success you want.  

For staff, faculty, and the community, the team supports you to build valuable career-focused experiences for students.

The Media Centre has been operating as the only student-run business of its kind in Canada for over 30 years. They offer a wide range of services and products to the Queen’s and Kingston community, all carried out by a dedicated student staff. As a part of the Alma Mater Society of Queen’s University, the P&CC operates as a not-for-profit, meaning they can keep margins competitive and accessible to students, and offer unique student jobs to over 50 undergraduates each year.

To strengthen student success and research impact through enabling information and technology services.

Our team offers support for undergraduate and graduate students with English as an additional language. 

If you learned to speak English after your first language or you are multilingual, our team are here to help you develop academic English skills.

We can work together on your writing, speaking, reading, and listening skills.

Help track your contract hours!

Academic integrity is at the heart of what we do at Queen’s. Aligned with Queen’s Strategy, we promote integrity in the work we do. In that line, we take responsibility for our actions; and respect our academic work, our peers, and the larger community. We are honest in our work and fair to ourselves and to the work of others.

The following resource provides some considerations and guidance around curriculum design in response to the ever-growing popularity of AI tools and Large Language Model (LLM) software. Please note that this resource is also ever-growing as we continue to learn more about LLMs and their uses and impacts on teaching and learning. Input and feedback are welcome! Before you choose whether you want to use or limit the use of Generative AI in your course, please review the information provided below about harms and biases.

See Queen's University Office of the Provost for Gen AI Statements. 

Are you creating or expanding Experiential Learning (EL) opportunities for Queen’s students? Are you wondering how you can do this effectively and efficiently? The EL Faculty Toolkit consists of resources, tools, and templates that will help you design and implement high-impact experiential learning opportunities in a time-effective manner.

Course Reserves provides instructors and students with a single access point for all course reading materials and supports copyright compliance.

Located in Stauffer Library and working closely with Queen's University Legal Counsel, the Copyright Advisory Office is dedicated to educating, supporting, and engaging Queen's faculty, students, researchers, and staff in matters pertaining to copyright, access to knowledge and content, learning, teaching, conducting and disseminating research, and administrative operations. 

The union is a collective of workers from across Queen’s University. The needs and interests of this membership provide the Local’s mandate, which is then collectively executed by the membership, department Stewards, members of standing committees and working groups, staff employed by the Local, and the Executive Committee. 

Graduate and professional student government, health and dental plan, grants, job and volunteer opportunities, committees, orientation, events, workshops, advisors and more.