The Okanagan College Students’ Union (OCSU) is held a Student Solidarity Walk Out at 10:30am at the Okanagan College Kelowna Campus on Wednesday, November 2.
Students gatthered in the campus courtyard for an address by their elected student representatives to send a united message to Okanagan College Leadership.
A statement sent to media by an OCSU representative says "Okanagan College is leaving students out of conversations and decisions; Okanagan College has abandoned its historic student-centered values; Okanagan College has had a steep decline of quality, and student-centered delivery of services."
Okanagan College Students’ Union has four demands of Okanagan College Leadership:
● Cancel the 8.6% tuition increase for international students. This decision was
disrespectful, unethical, and inequitable.
● Bring back a student-orientated food service in the cafeteria. Hosting expensive vendors in
the cafeteria contributes to food insecurity, and was not decided on with proper
consultation or input from students.
● Reinstate Student Association-elected student observers at Board of Governors Meetings.
OC needs to be transparent.
● OC must publicly join its students in lobbying the government to fix the funding model for
the post secondary education so that the weight of funding Okanagan College is taken off
the backs of its own students.