Office of Advancement
Queen's UniversityAnnouncements
- Shelley Aylesworth-Spink appointed as Executive Assistant
- New VP for Advancement
- Dr. D.R. Woolf Appointed as New Principal
- Principal's Financial Update
- Associate Vice-Principal (Alumni Relations) announced
- Executive Director (Development) announced
- Director, University Communications announced
- A Revitalized University Avenue
- Exuberant Crowd at Tindall Field Opening
- Alumni Directory Project update
- Senior Campaign Officer announced
- Chief Administrative Officer announced
- Executive Director, Marketing & Communications announced
- Executive Director of Development announced
- VP Advancement Search Committee
- Annalisa Boccia Named 2010 Heney Award Winner
- Peter Taylor Honoured with Flynn Award
- Tom Hewitt appointed as Chief Development Officer
- Linda Pearson appointed as Director, Gift Planning
- Advancement First Quarter 2011 Results
- Department Acknowledgement Program Takes Gold
- Relationship Mapping project awarded medal
About the Office of Advancement
Our Vice-Principal (Advancement)
Thomas J. Harris
Vice-Principal (Advancement) and Professor Tom Harris began his five-year term on January 4, 2010. He oversees the University's fundraising and development activities (including annual giving, planned giving, major gifts, capital campaigns, and corporate and foundation fundraising), marketing and communications, alumni relations, and advancement services.
Professor Harris graduated from Queen's with a BSc in 1975 and returned in 1986 as a faculty member and Queen's National Scholar in the department of Chemical Engineering. He was department head (1992-1996) and served as the Dean of Applied Science between 1996 and 2007, when he returned to the department to continue teaching and his research. He plans to continue teaching a course this coming semester.
"During my time as dean and department head, I came to fully appreciate the impact that the support from Queen's alumni and friends has on our education and research programs, and on the lives of so many students," says Professor Harris. "I have also seen, on many occasions, the great satisfaction that supporters derive from their interaction with faculty and students."
Professor Harris's Queen's roots are deep. He is a lifetime member of the Queen's Alma Mater Society and a recipient of the Engineering Society's Golden Apple for excellence in teaching as well as the T. Geoffrey Flynn Advancement Champion Award. His wife, daughter and brother are also Queen's graduates, and his son is currently pursuing a doctorate at Queen's in mining engineering at the newly named Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining.