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OUSA gives the Ontario government its two cents on a new tuition framework Gord Bacon ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR n the wake of a new tuition rebate from the provincial government, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance is setting its sights on flat fee and tuition regulation as part of an updated tuition framework. The alliance submitted a report titled “Tomorrow’s Tuition: A New Framework For Affordable Education” to the Ontario Government just six days after Minister of Education and Training Glenn Murray appeared in the University of Windsor’s CAW Student Centre. According to the paper, which made recommendations for a new...
[edited Feb. 1] UWSA aims to scrap a dated fee to save students $400,000 a year Stephen Hargreaves NEWS EDITOR imberly Orr is looking into a way to save distance education students about $400,000 a year. Orr, the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance vice-president of student affairs is investigating fees paid by distant education students, specifically those who write exams on campus. Orr wants to revoke a $40 per course fee she feels is dated. “It’s a ridiculous fee,” she said. “I can’t believe they were charging students $400,000 a year.” The fee was set in place in 1990 to...
OUSA policy paper revisions head to Queen’s Park Gord Bacon ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Policy paper revisions were the focus of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance’s bi-annual general assembly, hosted at the University of Windsor from Nov. 4 to 6. This year’s policy papers focus on four key topics: tuition, accountability, aboriginal issues and system growth. The recommendations are taken to Queen’s Park over the first week of December for the Student Engagement Conference, or “LobbyCon,” according to Kim Orr, vice president university affairs for the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance. Some of the issues that will be brought to parliament...
By Gord Bacon LANCE REPORTER ith provincial elections quickly approaching, student organizations across Ontario are making a push to revive an anaemic post-secondary demographic and force government officials to acknowledge education reform. On Oct. 6, University of Windsor students could potentially join over 600,000 of their peers in selecting the new structure of Ontario’s provincial government. Over the next month, the Canadian Federation of Students will be running it’s Take-It-Over political awareness campaign in conjunction with the It’s-Your-Vote initiative, organized in partnership by the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance and the College Student Alliance. The respective organizations will attempt to raise...