{"id":340617,"date":"2026-09-08T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340617\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:00:58","slug":"nearly-4850-first-year-students-move-into-queens-residences-in-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340617\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 4,850 first-year students move into Queen\u2019s residences in Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a9f634a51997.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo: Alyssa Brush<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Most first-year students arrived Saturday as Queen\u2019s University kicked off the new academic year.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s University welcomed approximately 4,850 first-year undergraduate students to Kingston during Move-In Weekend on Sept. 4 and 5.<\/p>\n<p>About 3,850 students moved into residence buildings on Saturday, with students settling into 18 residences across campus.<\/p>\n<p>The annual move-in period brought increased activity and traffic to the university and surrounding areas as students and their families arrived in Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>Queen\u2019s worked closely with community partners, including the City of Kingston, Kingston Transit, traffic specialists, Kingston Police and other emergency services, to help ensure the process went smoothly. Vice-Provost, Student Affairs Corinna Fitzgerald explains the planning that goes into the move-in weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>She also says they try their best to make incoming students comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The weekend marked the start of the university experience for thousands of new students, who are now beginning classes and other activities as the fall academic term gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>Story by Alyssa Brush<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Alyssa Brush Most first-year students arrived Saturday as Queen\u2019s University kicked off the new academic year. Queen\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-340617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}