We’ve moved! The OCSU office is now located in the Continuing Studies (A) Building. Our room number is A148.

Office services include:

• Bus pass sales
• Photocopying and printing services
• Free swag (water bottles, pens, etc)
• Information on OCSU services, including the Health & Dental plan
• Daily dad jokes

The Pantry is also located inside our office.

We sell bus passes at a discounted student rate. We accept cash, credit, and debit.

Monthly Pass  (valid Oct 1-31): $55
Sheet of 10 single use tickets: $22.50

We also sell Semester passes periodically. Semester passes are sold in September, January, and May.

Need something printed? OCSU has a Xerox machine that can be used to print, photocopy, and scan documents. Please note that all printing jobs MUST be saved onto a USB/thumb drive as a PDF. Our printer cannot read Word documents, images, jpegs, pngs, etc.

There is no cost to scan documents.

Printing and Photocopying Price List

Prices listed as price per page

Black and White
Letter (8.5″ x 11″) – $0.05
Legal (8.5″ x 14″) – $0.10
Tabloid (11″ x 17″) – $0.25

Colour
Letter (8.5″ x 11″) – $0.10
Legal (8.5″ x 14″) – $0.15
Tabloid (11″ x 17″) – $0.50

OCSU believes that no student should have to choose between buying groceries and paying bills. The Pantry offers a variety of non-perishable food items as well as basic hygiene and toiletry items for students facing short-term food insecurity and hardship. is a food bank for OC students, run by OCSU, on the Kelowna campus. It is routinely stocked with a variety of non-perishable breakfast, lunch, and dinner items as well as basic hygiene and toiletry items.

The Pantry is now located within the OCSU office in room A148.

Pantry Guidelines

• Masks must be worn in the Pantry and the OCSU office. Your mask must cover both your nose and mouth.
• We do not provide bags – please bring your own.
• Please do not touch any of the items, and please don’t take anything off the shelves. Let the Pantry staff know what you want and they will grab it for you. We do this to minimize the spread of germs and to help us keep track of inventory.
• Only one student is permitted in the Pantry at a time. It’s a very small space and there really isn’t room for more!
  • If you notice we are helping another student when you arrive, please wait in the hallway outside the OCSU office until you are welcomed in.
  • This also applies to groups. Only one person may enter the Pantry at a time; the rest of the group must wait in the hall.
• Please do not crowd the doorways. The OCSU office offers several services besides the Pantry,
• Students may take up to seven items each visit*
• Students may use the Pantry once every seven days

*Some items (like instant noodles) are offered as a 2-for-1 combo. In this case, two packs of instant noodles would count as one item.

Hours of Operation

Mondays: 8:00am – 3:00pm
Tuesdays: 8:00am – 3:00pm
Wednesdays: 8:00pm – 3:00pm
Thursdays: 8:00am – 3:00pm
Fridays: 8:00am – 3:00pm

Please contact us if you need to access the Pantry outside of these hours.

OC Serves Up is back for another year! Each day, up to 50 nutritious meals, prepared by OC’s very own Culinary and Pastry Arts students as part of their learning curriculum, are given out to hungry OC students for free. Requesting a meal is easy – students just need to fill out the online signup form each day they want a lunch. Each student can use the service up to three times per week. All current OC students are eligible to participate in OC Serves Up.

Here are is the complete guideline for accessing the service:

• Each student may sign up a maximum of three times per week
• The deadline to apply for a meal is 10:30 a.m. the day of. You must fill out the online form each day you wish to request a meal. Please don’t sign up more that once per day.
• Please do not submit a form more than 24 hours in advance.
• Meals can be requested Monday through Friday (excluding statutory holidays). Pick-up is available from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. inside the OC Cafeteria (F building) at the Kelowna campus. Remember, wearing a mask is mandatory.
• Some meals may need to be heated prior to eating.
• If you are unable to pick up your meal for any reason, please email us at ocservesup@ocsu.ca and let us know as soon as possible so we can give it to another hungry student. We have a limited number of meals each day, and failing to pick up your lunch without letting us know might mean that we have to turn students away.

‘SHH!’ (AKA ‘Sexual Health Handouts’) anonymously provides Okanagan College Kelowna-based students with free sexual health and menstruation products on a monthly basis. As OCSU has a longstanding history of providing free access to safer sex and menstrual supplies — ‘SHH!’ strives to bring awareness and greater accessibility to these services.

USING THE SERVICE

Using this form, OC Kelowna students can select the products they would like to add to their order. Each item has a pre-set, monthly amount. If you would like your order to remain anonymous, you will choose a code word (e.g., Doughnuts, Spider-Man, etc.) that you will use to pick-up your bag, rather than using your name. You are also free to just use your name if you are unconcerned with anonymity! Each order is contained in a brown paper bag to conceal your products (please recycle these!).

STEP BY STEP:

1. Submit the request form
2. Wait for a confirmation email that indicates your pick up date/time
3. Pick up your personalized “SHH” bag at The Pantry (A148, OCSU Office) using your code word

Thank you for using the “SHH” program; created and operated by OCSU. Please email shh@ocsu.ca if you have any questions or comments!

We have several poster boards around campus on which we post information about OCSU events and services. Students, staff, and community members may also use our boards to advertise their own student-oriented events, services, and products. Please read our poster board guidelines before posting on any OCSU poster board.

POSTER BOARD GUIDELINES

• All posters must be reviewed by an OCSU staff member for approval prior to posting. Any poster on our boards which has not obtained approval will be removed without notice. To have your posters reviewed, please bring them to the OCSU front desk (A148) during business hours. An OCSU staff member will review your posters on the spot with you. We’ll let you know if they meet the criteria for posting, or if any changes are necessary.
• It is your responsibility to put your posters up after they have been approved. If you are unfamiliar with the campus layout, we will gladly give you a map with approximate locations of our boards.
• Posters for events must be inclusive to all people.
• Images or messages that are racist, sexist, ageist, ableist, or otherwise derogatory or offensive, will not be approved under any circumstance.
• Images or messages must be politically and religiously neutral.
• All events with ticket/entry fees of more than $10 must list a discounted student price on the poster.
• All paid services/products must display a discounted student price.

RENTAL/HOUSING POSTINGS

We have a dedicated poster board in the S Building for rental listings. Please use one of our Housing Forms (provided under the poster board) to advertise your listing. You don’t need to bring it to the OCSU office for approval if it’s on one of our housing forms, but please be aware that we may take your listing down without notice if we feel it violates our guidelines.

For students seeking assistance with affordable housing, please see the BC Rent Bank website.

JOB POSTINGS

We have a dedicated poster board in the S Building for job opportunities. Approval by OCSU staff is required prior to posting.

If you have any questions or concerns about any of OCSU’s poster boards, please contact laitinen@ocsu.ca.

Our ping pong tables are finally back!! Kill some time between classes with a friendly (or not so friendly?) match or two. We have tables set up in the Pit (S Building) and in the Trades Building, each equipped with paddles and balls. Extra paddles and balls available for rent in our office as well.