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Provost Matthew Evans is pleased to announce that Corinna Fitzgerald has been appointed Interim Vice-Provost and Dean of Student Affairs until July 2026. Ms. Fitzgerald began as acting Vice-Provost and Dean in January 2025, when Ann Tierney left on a six-month study leave. Ms. Tierney will begin a new role as Vice-Provost (Global Engagement) at Queen’s on July 1, 2025.  

As Interim Vice-Provost and Dean of Student Affairs, Ms. Fitzgerald will continue to focus on maximizing undergraduate enrolment, particularly international recruitment and admission initiatives working together with the Vice-Provost (Global Engagement), and provide a broad range of relevant, responsive student services and programs, while ensuring good stewardship of student fees.

Prior to stepping into the Vice-Provost role, Ms. Fitzgerald was Associate Vice-Provost, Student Affairs, for nine years.  She came to Queen’s in 2016 after serving as Director, Student Life Programs, at Humber College, and Director, Student Life, at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia.

At Queen’s, Ms. Fitzgerald has helped establish the Yellow House Student Centre for Equity and Inclusion; she created and led the Equity, Inclusion and Belonging portfolio in Student Affairs; 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 provided a report with recommendations, resulting in the ongoing Food Insecurity Advisory Committee that guides ongoing work to support an increasing number of food insecure students at Queen’s.   

Originally from Newfoundland, Ms. Fitzgerald began her career at Memorial University, and moved to Ontario to work at McMaster University, starting in Residence Life, and then establishing the Judicial Affairs Office (one of the first in Canada) responsible for all student conduct and community standards. She holds a Master of Education in Post-Secondary Studies from Memorial and a Master of Arts degree in Labour Studies from McMaster.