Dear King’s community, Over the last two months, a group of King’s students called "King’s Students in Solidarity with Palestine" has issued several versions of online demands addressed to the university. We have responded to them, including in a meeting on May 17. After that meeting a number of the demands initially made by the…
Dear King's community, As many of you will have already noticed, last week Rideau Hall announced the names of those Canadians of distinction to have been most recently made members of the Order of Canada. If you did, you already know that Inglis Professor Sylvia D. Hamilton is now an OC as well as being…
Each month, we ask a member of faculty to tell us about one book that played an outsized role in making them who they are today. For our final Words to Live By before the newsletter hiatus, we chat with Tim Clarke, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Student Support (FYP), about a book he…
As a first-generation student from Windsor, Ontario, Nick Harris, BA(Hons)’22, remembers a time he couldn’t imagine finishing high school, let alone going to university. Coming from a working-class family, and having contended with a long-term disability in high school, a university education wasn’t in the cards for him. His family didn’t have the finances to…
Douglas Ruck, KC, Chair of the Board of Governors, opened the 234th Encaenia at the University of King’s College by reciting a quote by poet Maya Angelou. “Do the best you can until you know better,” urged Ruck, BA’72, to the graduands, dressed in long robes and hoods. “Then when you know better, do better.”…
King's Women's Volleyball has completed the signing of Olivia Coakley, bolstering the roster ahead of the 2024-25 season. A 6-foot (183 cm) setter, Coakley is a Halifax native, representing Halifax West High School in the Halifax Metro High School Athletic Association. The Halifax West Warriors went undefeated in the 2023-24 season, finishing first at the…
King’s Valedictorian Kaitlyn MacNeill couldn’t have imagined standing in front of her classmates and extolling the virtues of her alma mater back in September 2020 when she started the Foundation Year Program. From tiny North Rustico in Canada’s smallest province of Prince Edward Island, MacNeill started her King’s journey amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. All of…
Charlotte McConkey If you want to study journalism, the University of King’s College is where you need to go. Since 1978, the four-year Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) program has drawn students from across Canada to think critically about current affairs, conduct research and tell stories in several media formats. But the four-year program is not…
Jessica Casey Jessica Casey has just wrapped things up. She’s completed her coursework, defended her honours thesis and she’s finished her duties as co-president of the Contemporary Studies Society. Next, she’ll move back to her hometown, Paradise, Nfld., for the summer before a bigger move to Vancouver for a Masters in Science and Technology at…