As a follow-up from last Friday’s blog by OUSA’s Executive Director, Rylan Kinnon, I would also like to pass along a sincere thank you to all of our outgoing steering committee members – it has been a pleasure working with every one of you, and you should move on from your time at OUSA knowing that you have made a substantial and positive impact on post-secondary education in Ontario.
On another note, I was delighted to have the opportunity to meet many of this year’s incoming …read more
Today, OUSA’s year begins anew. Once again, a new crop of student leaders have stepped into roles at their student associations, and have thus begun a yearlong term as members of OUSA’s Steering Committee.
After three days of transition, our new Steering Committee and the respective student union presidents have had a variety of opportunities to discuss the challenges facing Ontario’s undergraduates, both amongst themselves and with other stakeholders, senior civil servants, and the Minist …read more
As my year at OUSA wraps up, I feel extremely grateful for this extraordinary experience. I’ve learned tremendously from the sector as well as from the organization. OUSA has a strong history rooted in its core values of evidence-based research, solution-oriented advocacy, and student-driven policy development and lobbying efforts. I have witnessed these practices again and again this year, and saw the difference we can make for Ontario students by staying true to our values.
I am extremely p …read more
Hello all! My name is Huzaifa Saeed and I’m pleased to introduce myself as this year’s OUSA Summer Research Intern.
My first foray into the world of student government was through the McMaster Students Union (MSU) over four years ago as a teenager with an idealistic, if not grandiose, vision of what I wanted my university education and that of those around me to be. A desire to be actively involved in shaping the post-secondary experience of my peers led me to attend my first OUSA Gene …read more
