Scholarships
OPSEU Scholarships
OPSEU Global Solidarity
Scholarships
The Ontario Public Service
Employees Union offers ten scholarships annually to support our goals of
social justice and global solidarity for the working class.
The Larry Cripps Scholarship
Fund
Open
to students in correctional services or police foundations
Hospital Professionals Division
Scholarship Fund
The Hospital Professionals Division offers seven scholarships (one per
region) annually to students who are entering professions in the allied
professions represented by the division.
The Carol McGregor Scholarship
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union offers an annual scholarship of
$3,000 in the memory of Carol McGregor, a longtime union activist on disability
rights issues
Winners
of the 2007 OPSEU Global
Solidarity Scholarships
The Ontario Public Service
Employees Union offers ten scholarships annually to support our goals of
social justice and global solidarity for the working class.
Our fund offers children,
foster children or wards of OPSEU members in good standing an opportunity
to win a $1,000 scholarship towards post-secondary education in a
publicly-funded, recognized Canadian university or college.
OPSEU has made the fight
against HIV/AIDS a top priority in our work towards a healthier
international community by adopting the Live and Let Live Fund as part of
our responsibility as a trade union.
HIV/AIDS and international
worker solidarity across borders are the foundation of the OPSEU
scholarships. We will ask our applicants to tell us about them in essay
format, along with a summary of their personal involvement in helping to
build our communities.
How to apply for an OPSEU
Global Scholarship:
1. Applicants are asked to
submit a 1,500 word essay responding to one of the following
questions:
· Why is HIV/AIDS an issue
for all people and how can you contribute to making a difference in
the fight against HIV/AIDS?
· Why is worker solidarity
across borders so important?
2. Along with the essay,
students are required to submit a summary of their recent community,
labour or other volunteer work, which helps to build healthy communities
in Ontario.
3. Applicants must be
children, foster children or wards of OPSEU members in good standing.
Please submit your relationship to an OPSEU member and the number of
his/her Local. At least five of the 10 scholarships will be awarded to
students who identify as representing equity seeking groups: people of
colour; aboriginal; disabled; gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered and
women. Applicants should acknowledge their eligibility for this equity
qualification, if applicable.
4.
The deadline for submissions is June 15 of the each year.
5. Essays and personal
summaries are reviewed and marked by an independent person commissioned
by the Communications Division of OPSEU. Essays will not be returned to
the applicants.
6. Scholarships are awarded
by Sept. 30. The successful applicants will then be asked to provide
confirmation of university or college enrollment before the scholarship
will be issued.
7. All selections are final.
Scholarships are one-time only and will not be awarded more than once to
the same applicant.
Mailing address:
OPSEU Global Solidarity
Scholarship Fund
c/o OPSEU Training and Development Unit,
100 Lesmill Road,
Toronto, ON M3B 3P8
Or submit by email to:
OPSEUcommunicationsdepartment@opseu.org
2006 Larry Cripps Scholarship
Winner
Open
to students in correctional services or police foundations
The
OPSEU Executive Board unanimously approved an annual bursary/scholarship
of $2,000 to be awarded in the memory of Brother Larry Cripps, a
Correctional Officer and longtime union activist who died in 2004.
Who can apply:
The
scholarship is open to dependents of OPSEU members in good standing who
are studying at a publicly-funded, publicly-run post-secondary institution
in Ontario. To receive the scholarship, the student must be confirmed as
enrolled in either a Police Foundations Course or a Law and
Security/Corrections course.
How to apply:
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Applicants must complete a personal statement about why they have chosen
to study corrections and what their future goals are as a result of
their studies.
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Applicants are asked to submit an essay of no more than 2,000 words
responding to both of the following questions:
What are the major issues
facing correctional workers in the Ontario Correctional system today and
how does their union, OPSEU, help workers deal with these issues? What are
the strengths of a publicly-funded, publicly-run, correctional services
system for Ontario?
Deadline for applications:
The deadline for submissions is June 15 of the each year.
In your cover letter,
please include the name, address and OPSEU Local number of the OPSEU
member in good standing upon whom you are dependent.
Essays and personal
statements are reviewed and marked by an independent person commissioned
by the Communications Division of OPSEU. Essays will not be returned to
the applicants.
All selections are final.
Scholarships are one-time only and will not be awarded more than once to
the same applicant.
In succeeding years, the
deadline will be June 15 and the Scholarship is awarded by Sept. 30 of
each calendar year.
An appointed OPSEU
representative will, to the extent possible, follow-up with the award
winner and the school they are enrolled in at the time the award is issued
to offer congratulations and ensure the scholarship is recognized as part
of the student’s record of achievement.
Please address all applications to Larry Cripps Scholarship Fund, OPSEU
Training & Development Unit, 100 Lesmill Road, Toronto, ON, M3B 3P8, or by
email to: bstevens@opseu.org
The Hospital Professionals Division offers seven
scholarships (one per region) annually to students who are entering
professions within the HPD.
The fund offers OPSEU members or their dependents an
opportunity to win a $750 scholarship toward post-secondary education at a
publicly funded recognized Canadian university or college. To receive the
scholarship, the student must be confirmed as enrolled in a Hospital
Professional program.
How to apply:
1. Applicants must complete a personal statement
about why they have chosen a hospital profession and what their future
goals are.
2. Applicants are asked to submit an essay of no
more than 1,500 words answering the following questions:
What are the major issues facing Hospital
Professionals today and how does OPSEU help workers deal with these
issues? In your opinion what are the strengths of a publicly funded
health care system?
Deadline for applications:
The deadline for applications and submissions will be June 1 of each
year.
The scholarships will be awarded to successful candidates by mid-
August. Successful candidates will be asked to provide confirmation of
university or college enrollment before the scholarship is issued.
In your cover letter, please provide the name,
address and OPSEU local number of the member in good standing upon whom
you are dependent, or your own information in the case of a member
application for scholarship.
Essay and personal statements are reviewed and
marked by an independent panel commissioned by the Communications Division
of OPSEU and The HPD. Essays will not be returned to the applicant.
An appointed OPSEU representative will, to the
extent possible, follow-up with the award winners and the school they are
enrolled in at the time the award is issued to offer congratulations and
ensure that the scholarship is recognized as part of the student’s record
of achievement.
Please address all applications to HPD
Scholarship Fund, OPSEU Training and Development Unit, 100 Lesmill Road,
Toronto, ON M3B 3P8.
The Ontario Public Service Employees Union offers an annual
scholarship of $3,000 in the memory of Carol McGregor, a longtime union activist
on disability rights issues, who died in 2006. This scholarship is open to
children of OPSEU members.
The recipient must have a visible or invisible disability and be
pursuing post-secondary education at a publicly-funded university, community
college or trades program. Extra consideration will be given to students who
have participated in a collective action or community organizing on disability
or human rights issues.
Applicants must submit a short essay (no more than 1,000 words)
on a topic related to disability issues, along with a brief resume indicating
their disability, accomplishments, field of study and their relationship to an
OPSEU member in good standing.
Deadline for applications: Sept. 15
Please send submissions to:
Carol McGregor Scholarship
c/o Training and Development Unit
OPSEU
100 Lesmill Road,
Toronto, ON
M3B 3P8
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