The College Student Alliance (CSA) represents students in Ontario community colleges. They currently represent 16 colleges and 22 student associations with over 135,000 student members.
Founded in 1975 as the as the Ontario Community College Student Parliamentary Association (OCCSPA), the College Student Alliance (CSA) is an advocacy and student leadership organization which serves Ontario’s college students.
CSA’s main competencies are advocacy related on behalf of its membership on all issues relating to college education including tuition, accessibility, quality and transferability. Independent of any political or organizational affiliations the CSA is dedicated to championing the needs of Ontario postsecondary students from the students’ perspective.
2012-2013 Board of Directors:
President Ciara Byrne (Conestoga College)
Vice President Rachel Calvelli (Durham College & UOIT)
Northern Director Jordan Borneman (Sault College)
Central Director Hansel Menezes (Humber College)
Eastern Director N/A
Southwest Director Adam Gourlay (Fanshawe College)
Famous quotes containing the words college, student and/or alliance:
“Mrs. Pilletti: This girl is a college graduate.
Catherine: They’re the worst. College girls are one step from the street, I tell you.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“To be born in a new country one has to die in the motherland.”
—Irina Mogilevskaya, Russian student. “Immigrating to the U.S.,” student paper in an English as a Second Language class, Hunter College, 1995.
“Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites—rather than fighting for jobs or education—fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)