ban righ centre

http://banrighcentre.queensu.ca/

32 Bader Lane
Hours: Fall/Winter: Monday – Thursday 9: 00 AM – 4:00 PM, Friday, 9:00 AM – Noon
Summer: Monday – Friday 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Tel: 613-533-2976

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The Ban Righ Centre is uniquely geared to support both the challenges and the achievements of mature female students.

It is a meeting place and a resource centre that offers its services without charge or membership. The Centre has informed and supportive staff to assist women of all ages to continue formal or informal education, especially those returning to study after a time away from formal education. The atmosphere is welcoming and offers the opportunity to meet others with similar experiences and concerns, and to become part of a smaller community within the larger community of Queen's.

Students come to the Ban Righ Centre to share experiences, network with peers, give and receive support, and to find help with academic and social or technical issues. It is a learning community that respects differences and encourages mutuality and equality.

Bursaries are available for academic, unbudgeted and emergency expenses. The Centre offers academic support, social events, homemade soup, training (e.g. how to use a computer), and someone to talk to when you feel good and when you don't. We can help you apply for admission, explore financial options and discover other helpful Queen's services and opportunities to become involved. We can help you with managing expectations and with the academic and social adjustment of becoming a student.

As well, the Centre presents a speakers program that is dedicated to open, free, informative and accessible continuing education for everyone - women and men, community and University. The schedule of speakers and a Centre newsletter are available on the Ban Righ website and by mail or email.

The historic brick home at 32 Bader Lane includes a comfortable lounge for conversation and for making and meeting friends, quiet study areas, group study rooms, places to rest before picking up kids at day's end, a computer lab and technical support, a kitchen (with tea, coffee, soup or other fare; fridge for storing your lunch; microwave), a lending library, space to nurse and change babies, as well a fax machine, photocopier and local phone - a home away from home where appointments are unnecessary.

The Centre is a non-profit organization in partnership with Queen's and supported through the office of the Vice-Provost and Dean of Student Affairs.