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CCBA Your Choice Your Right – Info

The CSA is providing members with resources to keep their students appraised of what is going on with the CCBA changes.  We have posted news on our front page and resources on our intranet.  If you have questions regarding this issue or any materials please contact Director of Advocacy.

PAST CAMPAIGNS

Students Are Not Bargaining Chips

The CSA has created a site to detail all the information you need on the strike either click the post card image on the upper right hand corner or go to www.collegestrike.ca

SA Awareness Week

CSA is supporting your Student Association as they make you aware of the services and support that they provide you as a student on campus.  January 11-15th is the week for students to shine across Ontario as they show their students what they do for them!

Tuition & You

In light of the expiration of the current tuition fee framework, at the end of this academic year, the CSA has developed a campaign to help you reach out and engage with your students.  This campaign is all about informing and arming students with the knowledge that come next academic year, they could see an increase in their tuition fees.  In order to ensure that fee increases get capped at the rate of inflation, we need to make the government and local MPPs aware that this is what students want. 

SA Awareness Day

Across the CSA membership–23 campuses representing 16 colleges–January 14th, 2009  was dedicated to raising the profile and awareness of Student Associations on campus across Ontario. The CSA works alongside each member SA to raise their awareness profile and effectiveness on their campuses. Students were given an opportunity to win $200 in cold hard cash simply for taking a few moments out to hear from their SA members. Many were engaged and encouraged to learn of the various services provided by their SA. More still were impressed with the amount of advocacy work each of our member SA’s do through their membership and participation in the CSA.

Face Our Issues

(info coming soon)

Check Yourself

With Ontarians heading to the polls on 10.10.07; the CSA and its members felt it was important to engage, educated and empower students on campus to vote. When you look at the demographic information of who votes in elections it isn’t 18 to 24 year olds. With postsecondary education (PSE) being the gateway to economic and personal prosperity; Ontarians demand that the next government of Ontario continue to invest in its colleges and students. Your vote, as an Ontario college student, matters and can make a difference—but only if you exercise that right to vote!

After over a decade and half of under-funding and cuts to postsecondary education and skills training, Ontario finally saw a commitment and infusion of funds, but there is much more than needs to be done to ensure that Ontario does become a ‘Leader in Learning’. Our young people, who have the most at stake, can lead the way and demand through their vote that PSE issues are brought to the forefront by our government officials and kept there!

College Strike

During the 18-day faculty strike in March 2006 and two previous potential work stoppages, the CSA was at the forefront, advocating on behalf of Ontario’s students. The effect of the most recent strike was felt by all 150,000 full-time college and college-university students and over 350,000 part-time students, whose education and training were stopped abruptly after both sides could not reach an agreement before the strike deadline.

A month before the deadline the CSA launched CollegeStrike.com, an unbiased information source for concerned citizens, parents and students. The site received over 10 million hits, prompted over 1000 calls to the CSA head office and sent over 4000 emails to the appropriate parties involved with the strike.

In addition to the site, the CSA also worked with the membership to stage a demonstration at Queen’s Park called “Students are NOT pawns.” As the CSA felt as if students were being used as pawns in a game between the management and the faculty, a giant chess board was set up in front of the Legislature. The demonstration garnered local, provincial and national media attention, and the two parties went back to the bargaining table shortly thereafter.

Cap Tuition Now

When the Honourable Christopher Bentley was appointed the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, he made it a priority to meet with key stakeholders during consultation to develop a new tuition fee policy. The CSA advocated for a predictable framework and provided a realistic, workable solution that included capping tuition increases to the rate of inflation, as determined by the consumer price index.

Aside from being a key player in the dialogue with the Minister, the CSA and its members launched a campaign to drive home its position.

On November 1, 2005, the petition campaign was launched. In just two weeks, over 26,599 petitions were signed by concerned Ontario students, telling the Minister and Premier Dalton McGuinty to cap tuition.

Although not pleased with the rate tuition was capped at, the CSA took great pride in the fact that the Minister had put a cap on tuition increases, creating a predictable, accountable framework.

You’re Worth More

(coming soon)