Services

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

• Pencils/sharpeners

These items are available in all OCSU offices.

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.

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

At the beginning of each month we send out a e-newsletter letting you know what events are happening on campus, important date, office hours, service of the month, and more! Click here to sign up for our monthly e-newsletter to stay up to date!

In partnership with the OC Library, each OCSU office has a collection of books featuring topics and authors that have been banned in other spaces such as secondary schools, and all under the umbrella of 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 and the list of available titles.

Some of our titles include:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

All Boys Aren't Blue - George M. Johnson

1984 - Goerge Orwell

Indian Horse - Richard Wagamese

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto - Tiffany Yu

And so many more!

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)

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!

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!

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.

To learn more about how we can help, please visit our Advocacy page.

OCSU Health Plan Members, through Prosum Health Benefits and Sykes Assistance Services provides you with timely, cost-effective access to experienced lawyers to guide you through most major types of law, including: Family, Criminal, Civil litigation, Landlord and tenant, Residential real estate, Wills and Estates, Tax, Employment, Condo/Strata, Immigration and Identity Theft Support. As a member of the Health Plan you have access to unlimited free summary telephone legal advice and unlimited referrals to local lawyers at preferred rates.

You can call on the toll-free number 1 877-333-3884 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to speak to a customer service representative who can put you in touch with a lawyer at no charge. Advice lawyers are available to call clients from 8 am to Midnight daily. Please do not hesitate to request a call back after regular business hours, on weekends or holidays