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The Office of Career Services offers a variety of services and programs to help students find summer employment
and permanent employment and to plan their careers after graduation.

The staff at Career Services organize on-campus recruiting by business and government, maintain notices of
available employment opportunities, and run a career information system. The staff also provide students with
access to internship, co-op and volunteer opportunities.

The Career Services office also houses a library of information on graduate and professional schools and career
development, and offers career counselling and workshops in resume writing, interviews, and planning a job
search. The service is responsible to the Dean of Student Affairs.

The Office of Institutional Research and Planning was formed in 2000 and reported to VP Academic. Prior to that, it was called Resources Planning and reported to the Associate VP of Planning, who reported up to VP Academic. Resources Planning started in 1973.
The purpose of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning was to inform and support strategic and operational objectives at Queen’s with timely and relevant data, analysis, information, and recommendations. This was accomplished by collecting, generating, assembling, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating data and information. They also interacted and shared data with external partners and provided research results to contribute to decision-making initiatives within Queen’s.

Institutional Research and Planning is now part of the Office of Planning and Budgeting, which reports directly to the Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic).

A movement to appoint a Dean of Women began at Queen's University in the 1890s, when female students debated, off and on, whether such an official would benefit them, or whether it would interfere too much with their independence. The movement gathered steam after 1900, when the number of women students at Queen's had reached a few hundred, and concerns grew about the morals and deportment of female students living in crowded boarding houses near campus, often alongside men. Still, many women students remained ambivalent, or opposed to such an initiative. So, in 1911, the University hired only an "advisor to women". In 1918, the post was retitled and the former "advisor," Caroline McNeill, became the University's first Dean of Women. McNeill, who only later became a faculty member herself, was the wife of a professor. All subsequent Deans (with the exception of Evelyn Reid in the 1970's) have held academic appointments jointly with the Deanship, in subjects ranging from English to Astrophysics.

When Ban Righ Hall opened in 1925 and, at the same time, Hilda Laird took over the post of Dean, the job took on a new dimension: the Dean of Women lived in residence with women students and supervised them directly, making and enforcing rules about such things as curfews, late-leaves and visitors. The Dean also made rules for women who lived off-campus, supervising how they dressed (no "slacks," except at breakfast (until the 1960's), and their choice of housing (no unsupervised apartments, no boarding houses with men, no boarding houses that had not been personally approved by the Dean). The Dean played a role in the day-to-day operation of the women's residences, reporting to the Ban Righ Board. That management role became more substantial in the 1970's, when the Ban Righ Board became an advisory body only and the Dean of Women took over the entire job of running the women's residences (and, between 1988 and 1990, all residences), before relinquishing all involvement in residence management in 1990. After Victoria Hall opened in 1965, the Dean of Women moved her quarters there; successive Deans continued to live there until 1990, when the "in-residence" tradition ended and the Dean moved to an office in Mackintosh-Corry Hall.

By the early 1990's, Queen's was one of only a handful of universities in Canada that still had a Dean of Women. Over the decades her role had evolved from that of surrogate parent to a resource for students, faculty, and staff, and in particular for women on campus. The Dean of Women was available for consultation and discussion on the wide variety of issues that affect women at the University. She also provided information on services available for women in the Queen's community, sponsored special events, and offered informal counselling on personal, academic, and financial matters.

In the mid-1990's, Principal William Leggett identified the need to re-examine the position and its activities in the context of a larger review of equity and human-rights structures at the University. The review, completed in 1996, recommended a more broadly integrated equity structure at Queen's. The position of Dean of Women was discontinued, and in 1996, a new position, the University Advisor on Equity, was created. In 1997, determined to preserve the legacy of the position, the Alumni Association's Committee on Women's Affairs established a Steering Committee to direct the writing of a history of the Office of the Dean of Women. The result, "Their Leaven of Influence: Deans of Women at Queen's University, 1916-1996", by Queen's alumnae, Maureen McCallum Garvie and Jennifer L. Johnson, was published in 1999.

Deans of Women:
Caroline McNeill (1918-1925)
Hilda Laird (1925-1934)
Winnifred Kydd, O.B.E. (1934-1939)
Allie Vibert Douglas (1939-1959)
Beatrice Bryce (1959-1971)
Evelyn Reid (1971-1980)
Elspeth Baugh (1980-1993)
Pamela Dickey Young (1993-1996)

Between 1988 and 1990, the posts of Dean of Women and Director of Residences were temporarily combined; since 1990, the Office of the Director of Residences has been in charge of all residences. The Office of the Dean of Women relinquished any direct residence management role. The Director of Residences was responsible to the Associate Dean (Student Affairs).

The Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen's University has been funded since 1975 by resources provided by Associated Medical Services Incorporated/Hannah Institute (AMS). It is named in honour of the latter's founder Jason A. Hannah, M.D. (Queen's, 1928). In 2000, it was fully endowed through a generous donation from AMS.

The Chair is located in the Faculty of Health Sciences, but it is linked through the professor's cross-appointments and teaching to the Faculties of Arts and Science, Graduate Studies, Education, and Law.

Programs offered by the Chair include a historical course of study for medical students, elective courses, a faculty seminar, undergraduate arts courses, graduate courses, graduate counselling, references or bibliographic assistance to individuals, guest lectures by visiting scholars (the Annual Hannah Happenings), displays of books and artefacts, and the acquisition of historical works suited to the research interests of members of the Queen's community. The Chair supports local initiatives such as the Museum of Health Care, and the Kingston Historical Society.