Do you know what feels better for an organization like OUSA than producing a well thought-out, well reasoned report to the government? Producing a well received report to the government.
In case you don’t know what I’m referring to, quickly jump over to the “Policy” page and take a look at government submissions. You’ll find there our most recent document, ontario: a province of knowledge.
See, a couple of weeks ago OUSA had a meeting with the Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and some of her staff. We went into that meeting armed with a bevy of copies of our report. To our surprise, the deputy minster and her staff could not only reference the report directly, but pulled out their own copies that they had brought along with them.
How great is that?
In fact, we have been getting praise all across the sector, as more and more people read through the report and realize that students are the ones at the cutting edge of important discussions on the future of higher education in Ontario.
I’m not trying to “toot our horn” or anything, I just wanted to point out that in a year of such importance to higher education, with new long-term plans being developed, it is great news that not only have we created a quality report, but that there is positive buzz surrounding it across the sector.
-Paul Bien
