Services
CAMPUS WIDE SERVICES
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OCSU gives out free frosh supplies to members every year, while supplies last. Our frosh supplies include but are not limited to:
Our handbooks/dayplanners
Pens and highlighters
Reusable water bottles
Hand sanitizer
Lip balm
Sunglasses
Lanyards
These items are available in all OCSU offices.
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Your Health and Dental plan helps cover part of the costs from a wide range of medical services, from dentistry to massage therapy. Your coverage is through Green Shield Canada. All OCSU members who are enrolled in full time studies are covered (3 or more college level classes).
For more details, please see our Health and Dental page.
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Every year, the OCSU hands out over five 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 Deals App and a list of businesses offering discounts in the area
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Each OCSU office has a collection of books centred on EDISJ (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice). Anyone can borrow a book for free for up to two weeks. Visit your OCSU office for more details!
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Each OCSU office is always stocked with a variety of free safer sex and menstrual hygiene supplies. Simply come to your OCSU office and take what you need. Everything is free of cost and free of judgement.
Safer sex supplies:
External and internal condoms
Dental dams
Pregnancy tests (by request)
Menstrual hygiene supplies:
Tampons
Pads
Menstrual cups (by request)
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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 Student Discount Program!
The easiest way to access these discounts is with the brand new Deals App!
Deals is available on Apple and Android absolutely free. Simply create an account with your student ID, and you’re ready to go! Just show your ID number at the point of purchase. The best part is, since this app is presented by the BCFS (a BC-wide organization), it shows you what discounts are available nearby, no matter where you are in BC.
Do you own a business, and are interested in offering a discount? Learn how here!
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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. Please see our Student Initiatives page for further details on how to apply!
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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
KELOWNA SERVICES
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The OCSU office is 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
Safer sex and menstrual hygiene supplies
The Pantry is also located inside our office.
Please note that our hours are sometimes subject to change with little notice. Follow us on Instagram (@ocsu.kelowna) for updates, or email info@ocsu.ca
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We sell a variety of bus passes from our Kelowna office.
Discounted passes:
30 Days - $55
Semester (available seasonally) - $176Regular passes:
dayPASS - $5 each
10 rides - $22.50
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Need something printed? OCSU has a Xerox machine that can be used to print, photocopy, and scan documents.
Printing is available by using the PrintByXerox app (details here), USB (.pdf files only) or via our office iPad.
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
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OCSU believes that no student should have to choose between buying groceries and paying bills. The Pantry is a food bank for OC students, run by OCSU, on the Kelowna campus. It 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.
The Pantry is located within the OCSU office in room A148.
Hours of Operation
The Pantry is open by appointment only. Appointment slots are generally available between 9am-2pm on weekdays.
For more information on the Pantry, please visit our webpage.
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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.
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
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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.
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OCSU has purchased several microwaves for student use. They are located in almost every building on campus. Please be mindful and respectful when using the microwaves- clean up after you’re done, and avoid foods with offensive odours.
PENTICTON SERVICES
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The Harbour offers a comfortable spot where students can drop by for campus support and community referrals, or access the food shelf for basic food items, toiletries, and safer sex supplies. This safe space on campus welcomes folks of all gender and sexual orientations. The Harbour also supports our LGBTQ2S+ members and offers programming & events.
Hours:
Monday – Thursday
9am-2pm
Location:
PC 213 (second floor in the Centre of Excellence).
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Need somewhere to stash your stuff? Drop a lock on any unoccupied locker, and then register it at the OCSU office (PEC14)!
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Bored between classes? Swing by the OCSU office and rent a board game!
SALMON ARM SERVICES
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A free lunch is offered to the first ten Salmon Arm students who sign up at the beginning of each month.
Stop by the OCSU Office in the Student Lounge to register and get a free lunch while supplies last – courtesy of OCSU!
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There is a free food shelf located just outside the Salmon Arm OCSU office. Students are encouraged to take what they need and pay it forward when they can.
