Jennifer Ross

Jennifer Ross is the Manager, Special Projects in Student Affairs at Queen’s. With more than 20 years of strategic planning and project leadership experience, Jen supports units across Student Affairs in their work to advance and improve the student experience, specifically related to student mental health, wellbeing and experiences and perceptions of campus culture and climate. Jen is the project lead on the university’s Rossy-funded Campus Wellness Project and worked with the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Wellness to develop, and now implement and report on the Queen’s Campus Wellbeing Framework, the project’s outcome. Jen led a cross-campus wellbeing consultation process, reaching more than 2000 campus community members. Jen is currently working to advance how Queen’s gathers, communicates, and uses health and wellbeing survey data to help improve student wellbeing and success. In 2021, Jen provided project leadership to pilot a campus climate survey, adapting and localizing a tool from the Educational Advisory Board (EAB) to measure students’ campus experiences and perceptions of diversity, inclusion, and sexual violence. She is now involved with the post-survey student engagement strategy. Another part of Jen’s portfolio is collaborating with units, departments, and committees across campus to implement the National Standard for Post-Secondary Student Mental Health and Wellbeing, including the Queen’s Student Mental Health Network, a caucus of student and staff leaders. She is well connected to peers across Canada via a student mental health community of practice, participates in the EAB Mental Health Collaborative and has strong connections to Student Wellness Services clinical and health promotion staff, staff across Student Affairs and to university leadership through the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Wellness.