December, 2009
ousa | December 20, 2009 6:58pm | Blog, Featured Blog Tweet Share
The good old days of graduating with a degree and settling into a nice cozy job are long gone. Check out the link below and find out how Generation X has been pinned down by commodity fetish views which has lead to endless debt. In the end were left wondering “Dude, where’s my job?”
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/01/14/dude-where%E2%80%99s-my-job/ <http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/01/14/dude-where%E2%80%99s-my-job/>
- Jasjeet Singh
University of Windsor Campus Coordinator
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admin | December 18, 2009 11:09am | Featured News, News Tweet Share
OCUFA Submission (CLICK TO VIEW)
Toronto, Dec 18/OCUFA/
Investing in Students, Ensuring Success: Recommendations for a meaningful successor to Reaching Higher
Executive Summary-
The Government of Ontario’s Reaching Higher plan was a visionary document that provided needed funding to Ontario’s postsecondary system. However, it was not sufficient to overcome the long history of university under-funding in Ontario. Its impact was also eroded by unanticipated increases in enrolment and the cu …read more
admin | December 18, 2009 10:19am | Blog, Featured Blog, Featured News, News Tweet Share
Season's Greetings
Dec 18, 2009 – Well, the day has finally come…it is time to put a period at the end of the sentence that was OUSA 2009. As most of OUSA member schools, as well as the Home Office, prepare to shut down for a short time to take part in the festive season we can look back on 2009 with pride. 2009 saw the departure of former staffers, and the building of a new team. It was a great year for all OUSA areas. We created more research and policy work than we have i …read more
ousa | December 17, 2009 10:41am | Blog, Featured Blog Tweet Share
As a way of focusing my posts for this site, I have been searching for an area where broad discussion is needed in Ontario. The more I thought about it the more it became clear that the area in need of the greatest illumination and discussion was university budgets and inflation. I chose this topic for two reasons. First, this is the big year for major components of University budgets. From inputs, there is the current negotiations around the post reaching higher plan being developed provinciall …read more
