One of the values of the Office of Advancement is collaboration. We have collectively agreed to demonstrate this value through the following actions:

Thank you to all those who participated in our Advancement Value- Action Statement exercise. Over the next several issues of ALTogether Now, ALT will be talking about living these values.

I will start with Accountability. Here are the action statements we chose:

At our staff meeting in March, Karen presented Advancement’s high-level annual objectives for 2021-22. Read the presentation.

On behalf of the ALT, I want to acknowledge the considerable stress everyone feels because of the impact of the ongoing pandemic. 

Last week, a new iteration of the Queen’s Alumni Review (QAR) finally went to press. The team – Alex Beshara, Ruth Dunley, and Wendy Treverton at its core, with the help of many others – is very proud of the look and feel of the magazine. I hope you are, too.

I hardly know where to begin.

Let me first share a reflection on what it was like for me last Monday afternoon following the Principal’s announcement “encouraging staff, where possible, to work remotely.” Following initial steps to roll out the plan we had built for exactly this scenario, a lump formed in my throat. I walked around Summerhill and Old Meds to give a personal send-off to whomever was still on site — accompanied by a sense of sadness fostered by the uncertainty of when we would return to campus.