Services

Student Bus Passes are sold through the Kelowna Office (Room H125) at a discounted student rate offered through the city of Kelowna. We sell semester bus passes, monthly bus passes and sheets of 10 tickets.

Bus Pass Tax Exemption

Beginning July 1, 2006, you can save on each monthly bus pass purchased by claiming a 15.25% tax credit on your income tax return. Simply keep your monthly pass and dated receipt, and print your name on the back of the pass.

In addition to claiming your own cost of transit passes, you can make a claim on behalf of your spouse or common law partner and your children under the age of 19. For more information, visit www.transitpass.ca.

Claiming Your Spouse/Common-law Partner

In addition to claiming your own cost of transit passes, you can make a claim on behalf of your spouse or common law partner and your children under the age of 19. For more information about claiming a spouse, common-law partner or dependent, visit www.transitpass.ca

Faxing can be expensive! Each office of the OCSU has a fax machine available for use for student related faxing. If you need to send off information for your student loan, for a summer work placement, or to apply to another college or university, we can help you fax for cheap.

How To Fax:

1. Determine what you’re faxing and where it’s going.
2. Come to any of our offices.
3. Fill out a cover sheet, and we’ll take care of the rest.

Prices

Local: $0.25 per page

Long Distance: $0.50 per page

International: $1.00 per page

Every year, the OCSU hands out over three thousand handbooks/dayplanners to students absolutely free. This is achieved by partnering with the British Columbia Federation of Students – BCFS. This project allows the OCSU to deliver a quality handbook with full colour pages, better quality paper with unique cover art and local flavour.

The handbooks are also a testimony to the OCSU’s commitment to sustainability; they are printed on 100% post consumer recycled material with vegetable dyes. Even the binding is recyclable!

What You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

• Details of who we are and the services we provide to our members
  • The in’s and out’s of our Health and Dental plan
  • Monthly and yearly calendars
  • A course timetable
  • Information on your membership in the British Columbia Federation of Students
  • Campus activities and events
  • Campaign details
  • Details on the International Student Identity Card (ISIC) and a list of businesses offering discounts in the area

Come to your Students’ Union office to get your free handbook today!

At the Salmon Arm campus will be relaunching this service come September 2017. Due to turn over in the Cafe the program was unable to take place this year. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to servicing you next year!

If you feel you have been unfairly treated in the assessment of your performance in a course, or that the determination of your final course grade is inconsistent with the grading methodology outlined in your course syllabus, it is your right to request a formal review of your course work or final grade.

What we can do

The OCSU can help you wade through the Okanagan College grade appeal policy and guide you step by step through the grade appeal process.

The OCSU can appoint a Student Representative to sit beside you as a student observer, in a non-voting capacity, throughout the review process. This Student Representative will ensure you are being treated fairly during the appeal process.

What we cannot do

The OCSU cannot expedite the Okanagan College appeal process.

The OCSU cannot determine or influence the instructors who make up the appeal committee, although we will ensure that you are treated in a non-biased and fair manner throughout the appeal process.

If you would like advice on how to proceed with a grade appeal, feel free to stop by the OCSU office on your campus and set up a confidential meeting with one of your Student Representatives.

Okanagan College policy on General Appeals on Academic Standing can be found here

On the Kelowna campus we have a housing board where you can view and post accommodations. It is located in the Health building, near our office (H125).

You can fill out the form below and print it, or email it to potter@ocsu.ca for posting.

When you are living on a student budget every penny counts. That’s why we are proud to offer another one of our extremely popular services available FREE to all of our members: the International Student Identity Card.

Every year we continue to grow this service and last year we managed to include over 150 local businesses throughout the Okanagan, plus discounts world wide. You can view the discounts nationwide at www.myisic.ca and globally at https://www.isic.org/ The ISIC is the only internationally recognized form of student identification.

Colleges and Universities all over the world issue this same card, and it gives you access to student discounts in over 60 countries worldwide, including all discounts offered through the Student Saver Program.

Signing up for your ISIC is easy! Pop into one of our offices, fill out the short sign up form, have your photo taken and we will make your card for you! You will receive it a few days later in the mail and then you can redeem all of the great discounts in the Okanagan!

How To Get an International Student Identity Card

1. Get your International Student Discount Card in one of our three offices.
2. Review the discounts available in our handbooks or online at isiccanada.ca
3. Go to the business.
4. Show your International Student Identity Card (ISIC).

How We Market Local Businesses

• Printed Material: printed in our Student Handbook and ISIC guide, rotating promotion in e-newsletter and around campuses
• Online: rotating promotion on our website, rotating promotion on our Facebook pages.
• Poster Boards: rotating promotion on our poster boards, and custom posters*.

*Provided by business, must meet Poster Policy standards.

How To Give A Discount

Are you a business that would like to offer students a discount in return for free on-campus and online marketing? Every spring we search for local business who would. If you’re interested, contact us by phone or email. We accept new discounts anytime throughout the year.

Contact: info@ocsu.ca

Are you a student who has an excellent project in mind that could help benefit the campus community? Are you a group of students who are fundraising to start a new a service or attend a conference? If you are an Okanagan College Students’ Union member and have a great initiative that would help benefit the campus community, we encourage you to apply for our Student Initiatives program. All you need to do is fill in the paper work for your individual or group application and we will consider each application and let you know if we can help financially or through letters of support. We know how important it is when a project is in the start-up phase and we would love to help out if we can. You can find more details in our policy manual.

Fill in the Student Initiatives Individual Funding Application:

Student Initiatives Funding Application-Individual PDF FORM

Fill in the Student Initiatives Group Funding Application:

Student Initiative Funding Application-Group PDF FORM

For students on the Penticton Campus, lockers are available for free! Choose an empty locker and place your own lock on it to claim it as your own. You may use this locker for a day, a week or the whole year.

Be sure to empty your locker before the end of your time here at Okanagan College. Annual lock cutting/emptying occurs every year in the last week of August to get ready for the next school year. Your lock and contents will be removed at this time if you have not done so yourself.

The OCSU manages over 25 poster boards in Kelowna and Salmon Arm. Check them out if your looking to get informed about our events, other student events, and great deals for students at local businesses. We welcome students, community members, and local businesses to post. We manage all poster boards in Kelowna and Salmon Arm with our Poster Policy, available at our offices. All posters must be approved at our office prior to posting.

If you would to post on the poster boards in Penticton, contact the Admin reception desk as they handle all poster boards.

How To Post A Poster?

1. Read our Poster Policy, available at our offices.
2. Design your poster.
3. Come to our office to get an approval stamp.
4. Post approved posters.

Located conveniently in the OCSU office on the Kelowna – KLO campus at our office, room H125 the Students’ Union office in Kelowna sells bus passes, photocopying, and fax services for students! We also have the lowest priced printing on campus (print from USB with .pdf only).

You can also find the lost & found for the Kelowna Campus at the Students’ Union office. The Students’ Union is open from 8:00am to 3:00pm, Monday to Friday (including throughout the Summer) and closed for lunch from 11:00am-11:30am.

SWAP offers programs for Canadians who want to go abroad to work and travel.

Have a lingering question about living and working abroad? When should you go? Where should you go? How do you prepare to live and work overseas? SWAP has all the answers.

SWAP not only gets you the Work Visa, but once in your destination, SWAP offer support services for the full duration of your stay.

For more information check out the SWAP website!

If you’re a student, you likely don’t earn a lot of income and you’re probably due for a refund come tax season. Most tax services charge you money for filing your tax return. Now can do it for free with UFile! They worked out a deal with the Canadian Federation of Students so students don’t have to pay. Visit http://www.ufile.ca/ for details