The Globe and Mail: Students won’t lose year, colleges to promise
Ontario community colleges are set to promise students that they will not lose their academic year despite a strike by teachers, now in its second week. Newspaper advertisements tomorrow and Thursday will tell students that they will complete their winter semester, with management teaching classes if necessary.
The colleges will look at the transcripts of graduating students first to determine the essential work necessary to complete each course, said Rick Miner, president of the colleges’ committee of presidents and also president of Seneca College.
About 150,000 full-time and thousands more part-time students were shut out of classes last week after negotiations collapsed between the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the province’s 24 community colleges. More than 9,000 teachers, librarians and counsellors are on strike, pushing for smaller class sizes and more full-time instructors. There are no talks scheduled between the two sides.
Toronto Sun: Students to air views at rallies
Whether through a placard-waving rally or by bringing teachers a coffee and a doughnut, local college students will be weighing in on the provincewide strike.
A group of local college students affected by the full-time faculty and librarians’ strike at Algonquin College have launched the Take Action Campaign to “have our voices heard and stand up to the teachers’ union.”
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