Okanagan College Students’ Union

Local 1 of the British Columbia Federation of Students

OCSU is the membership organization of over 8000 students at Okanagan College across the Kelowna, Penticton, and Salmon Arm campuses. We provide students with advocacy, services, campaigns, and events year round. We work hard to ensure students’ voices are heard and we strive to support students in the best means possible while achieving their educational goals.

We respectfully acknowledge that our places of work are on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Syilx/Okanagan people & Secwepemc Shuswap people.

Meet the team

OCSU is run by an elected team of student representatives and dedicated staff who are passionate about social justice, student advocacy, and a positive campus community.

Our Mandate

The Okanagan College Students’ Union operates under three specific mandates. We aim to ensure that post-secondary education is of high quality, publicly funded, and we hold education decision makers and stakeholders accountable to students. OCSU strives to achieve these goals through providing the students of Okanagan College with advocacy, services, and events.

Events

  • Fostering campus community

  • Promoting stress relief and mental health on campus

  • Education about important campaigns and causes

  • Empowering students

  • Free food

Advocacy

  • Social justice & fair access campaigns

  • Lobbying government officials

  • Lobbying college administrators

  • Providing support with grade appeals and academic & non-academic challenges

Services

  • Free supplies like handbooks, water bottles, and pens

  • Safer sex supplies, menstrual hygiene products, and hand sanitizer

  • Extended Health & Dental benefits for eligible students

  • Local & BC-wide student discounts

  • Subsidual services such as legal aid

Let's keep in touch!

Let's keep in touch!

OCSU Kelowna

@ocsu.kelowna

OCSU Penticton

@ocsu.penticton

OCSU Salmon Arm

@ocsu.salmonarm