November 19, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – Today, Kanivanan Chinniah, AMS President, made the following remarks at the Assembly meeting of November 19, 2015:
“On Monday, November 9, 2015, the Executive was notified by a participant in the Fall Referendum of concerns with regards to the status of the Chief...
November 11, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – Hiring for the AMS Commissioner of Internal Affairs has concluded. After reviewing 4 applications, the AMS Executive (Kanivanan Chinniah, Kyle Beaudry, and Sarah Letersky) are happy to announce that Jon Wiseman, ArtSci ’16, will be taking on the position of Commissioner...
November 9th, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – On Tuesday, November 10th the Alma Mater Society (AMS) and the City of Kingston will install University District street signs in the area bound by Nelson Street to the west, Princess Street to the north, Division and Barrie Streets to the east, and Johnson Street...
November 4th, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – Hiring for the AMS Academic Affairs Commissioner has concluded. After reviewing three applications, the AMS Executive (Kanivanan Chinniah, Kyle Beaudry, and Sarah Letersky) are happy to announce that Tyler Lively, ArtSci ’16, will be taking on the position of Academic...
October 30, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – Today, Kanivanan Chinniah, President, Kyle Beaudry, Vice President (Operations), and Sarah Letersky, Vice President (University Affairs), issued the following statement:
“Yesterday, we accepted the resignation of Miriam Bart, Commissioner of Internal Affairs, effective...
September 18, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – Today, Kanivanan Chinniah, Kyle Beaudry, and Sarah Letersky, the AMS Executive, issued the following statement in response to the University’s release of the Lewis Report and subsequent review of the student non-academic discipline systems:
“Over the past century,...
September 16, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – Hiring for the AMS Human Resources Officer has concluded. After reviewing five applications, the AMS Executive (Kanivanan Chinniah, Kyle Beaudry, and Sarah Letersky) are happy to welcome Mackenzie Jackson, ArtSci ’17, to the position of HR Officer for the remainder...
August 26, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – Today, Kanivanan Chinniah, the President, and Kyle Beaudry, the Vice President (Operations), appointed Sarah Letersky, ArtSci ’16, as the Vice President (University Affairs) with immediate effect.
The decision was taken in light of the pressing need to have a replacement...
Statement from Catherine Wright
KINGSTON, ON – Today, Catherine Wright, AMS Vice President (University Affairs), issued the following statement:
“The past few months, I have been facing some personal challenges which have made transitioning into the role of Vice President (University Affairs) difficult....
June 19, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – Today, the Alma Mater Society (AMS) released “Collective Perspectives: A Policy Paper on Collective Bargaining between Queen’s University and the Queen’s University Faculty Association”, a student-centric analysis of the factors affecting the new Collective Agreement between...
April 23, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – The Alma Mater Society is excited to announce that the Earth Centre will be joining the AMS as a service under the Commission of the Environment and Sustainability (CES). This is a great opportunity for both parties who work to fulfill the same mandate of improving environmental...
April 22, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – The Alma Mater Society is excited to announce that as of May 1, 2015 the Grey House will become exclusively AMS clubs space. This space redistribution between the AMS and the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) was approved by the Student Life Centre...
March 23, 2015
KINGSTON, ON – The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is pleased to welcome Carolyn Dunk, ArtSci ’15, as the ReUnion Street Festival Coordinator 2015. This position is responsible for the overall planning of the event, including logistical and financial oversight.
The ReUnion Street Festival...
The Queen’s Student Constables is a peer to peer security service that embodies the unique idea of students being responsible for students. The Queen’s Student Constables are made up of Queen’s students, just like you, who wish to make a difference in the Queen’s Community.
Queen’s has...
Some of you rely on this service for its affordable and convenient transportation to and from campus, others for schools supplies and gael swag, but do you know how Tricolour Outlet came to be? Keep reading to find out more on the history of this student staple!
Tricolour Express, the oldest aspect...
The Publishing & Copy Centre (P&CC) is a 100% student-run service operated by the AMS and a staff composed of diverse, keen and hardworking undergraduate students; 35 Customer Service Representatives and 4 Managers. Students were seeking a low cost alternative to publishing, printing, binding...
Many of you are quite familiar with Common Ground, or CoGro as it’s better know, but do you know the history behind it? What’s become a staple for many of you in your daily lives actually started out as just an idea by a group of three students, who were hopeful in the idea of a Queen’s,...
With Student Appreciation Week upon us, this week’s blogs will center on our well-established traditions of student leadership. All of the AMS services are student owned and student run: the people you work with, you work for and who you report to are all students–they’re your housemates,...