Queen’s Bicentennial Vision sets a bold, high-level framework to 2041, defining long-term ambitions in excellence, inclusion, sustainability, and financial resilience, while allowing flexibility to adapt, ensuring coherence across strategies, and complementing short-term efforts to restore balance.
Provide feedback by Oct. 31, 2025
Once feedback on the draft has been reviewed and considered this fall, Principal Deane will bring the document to the Board of Trustees for final approval in December.
Developing the Bicentennial Vision Draft
An advisory group consisting of students, staff, faculty, and senior leaders worked over Summer 2025 to develop the draft Bicentennial Vision. Before that, its development started formally in the January 2025 when Principal Deane released a discussion paper framing the present state and future of the sector and the context in which the Vision would be developed. Additional information regarding the state of the institution and sector was made publicly available. The release of this information was followed by extensive consultation with the university community during the Winter term of 2025 via:
A committee of the whole discussion at Senate
A dedicated session at the Board-Senate retreat
Online townhalls with students, staff, faculty, and alumni
Meetings with the Indigenous Council and Indigenous Knowledge Working Group
Session with groups of university leaders (four groups of up to 50 leaders)
A feedback portal that was open during the whole of the Winter term
A working group tasked with examining the future of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Queen’s.
The information obtained through the consultation process was assessed to identify prominent themes that were considered during the development of the Bicentennial Vision.
- Explore the feedback received through the consultations
- Review the themes identified from consultations
Read more about the alignment between themes identified though consultation and: