NEWS RELEASE
November 24, 2025
OUSA kicks off the annual Student Advocacy Conference
TORONTO – This week, eighteen student leaders from the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) are heading to Queen’s Park to meet with MPPs and their staff to discuss student concerns. OUSA represents 160,000 students from nine universities across Ontario, and our student representatives will be advocating for OUSA’s priorities on student and community safety, strengthening Ontario’s workforce, and meeting post-secondary demand.
“Student leaders across OUSA’s member schools are thrilled to be at Queen’s Park advocating for students across the province. We look forward to advancing our advocacy priorities, focused around affordability, housing, gender-based and sexual violence prevention, and work-integrated learning.” said Sayak Sneddon-Ghosal, OUSA’s President. “We’re working to raise awareness around critical student issues, and continue advancing an accessible, affordable, accountable, high-quality, and equitable post-secondary education experience for students in Ontario.”
Ontario’s post-secondary sector is struggling with financial instability, poor student well-being, and increasing post-graduate unemployment rates. Consequently, students are advocating for increased funding to support post-graduate employment pathways, greater investments in post-secondary, proactive efforts to ensure student safety, and capacity planning to support a growing student population.
“Students face a wide range of challenges today, and while we may not solve them all at once, OUSA is at Queen’s Park this week to advocate for meaningful solutions to some of the most pressing concerns,” said Aaditya Gupta, Vice President External Affairs at the Brock University Students’ Union. “We’re committed to ensuring student voices are heard!”
To follow along with OUSA’s Student Advocacy Conference, use the #OUSAdvocacy hashtag on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
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OUSA represents the interests of 160,000 professional and undergraduate, full-time and part-time university students at nine student associations across Ontario. Our vision is for an accessible, affordable, accountable, equitable, and high-quality post-secondary education in Ontario.
Tobi Olumurewa
Manager of Communications
Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance