Provost Matthew Evans is pleased to announce the appointment of Corinna Fitzgerald as Vice-Provost, Student Affairs, for a five-year term, starting July 1, 2026.

Ms. Fitzgerald has been Acting and Interim Vice-Provost and Dean of Student Affairs since January 2025. In that time, she has built strong collaborative relationships with deans and senior colleagues across campus to enhance the student experience, inside and beyond the classroom. This includes progress on partnerships and processes related to academic accommodations, activating new student spaces in the renovated JDUC, and establishing a working group with student governments to develop agreements covering governance structures and ancillary fee processes, aligned with new provincial legislation.

Ms. Fitzgerald has also effectively provided Student Affairs with stability and thoughtful stewardship through several senior leadership transitions, and is leading the implementation of the recommendations of an external review undertaken last fall.

“The student experience is a defining institutional strength and a shared responsibility. Student Affairs provides strategic direction, oversight, and coordination of activities that nurture and enhance student life at Queen’s,” says Provost Evans. “I am certain that with Corinna’s expertise and leadership, Student Affairs will continue to deliver a high-quality student experience, in alignment with the university’s Bicentennial Vision.”

Ms. Fitzgerald joined the Queen’s community in 2016 and served as assistant dean and then associate vice-provost of Student Affairs for nine years. In that role, she helped establish the Yellow House Student Centre for Equity and Inclusion; she coordinated a comprehensive review of the university’s Sexual Violence Policy; she co-led the implementation of a Student Campus Climate Survey that evolved into The Shift Project; and she chaired the Provost’s Food Insecurity Working Group (2019) that resulted in the ongoing Food Insecurity Advisory Committee.

Originally from Newfoundland, Ms. Fitzgerald began her career at Memorial University, and has worked at McMaster University, St. Francis Xavier University, and Humber College, in progressively senior roles in Student Affairs. She has been actively involved in Student Affairs professional organizations and was part of a team that developed a national competency framework for Student Affairs professionals in Canada. Ms. Fitzgerald holds a Master of Education in Post-Secondary Studies from Memorial and a Master of Arts degree in Labour Studies from McMaster.