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OPSEU Scholarships
The Curt Bishop Scholarship
Fund
Annually OPSEU offers a scholarship up to $2,000, in part or whole, to promote health and safety in
the workplace in memory of Curt Bishop, a member-activist who promoted
worker safety for more than 20 years
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
Annually OPSEU offers a scholarship up to $2,000, in part or
whole, in the memory of Curt Bishop, a long-time union health and safety
activist who passed away on June 30, 2008.
As a member of the Corrections division, Local 678 (Algoma
Treatment and Remand Centre), Curt understood that improvements in workplace
health and safety come only through worker action and effort. For more than two
decades, Curt dedicated himself at both the local and provincial levels to the
struggles of OPSEU members to achieve safer and healthier workplaces.
Who can apply
Open to dependents of OPSEU members in good standing who are
studying at a publicly funded, publicly run post-secondary institution in
Ontario.
How to apply
1. Download the Application Form
here and fill it out completely.
2. Include the following required documents with your
application form:
Why is worker activism and union involvement important to
make meaningful health and safety improvements in a workplace?
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A summary of your recent community, union, or other
volunteer work, which helps to build awareness of health and safety in the
workplace, community or environment.
The deadline for submissions is August
1, 2012.
Send your application form, essay, and personal summary to:
OPSEU Curt Bishop Scholarship Fund
c/o OPSEU Training and Development Unit
100 Lesmill Road
Toronto, ON M3B 3P8
Or submit by email to
scholarships@opseu.org.
Essays and personal summaries are reviewed and marked by an
independent adjudicator. Essays will not be returned to the applicants.
Scholarships are issued by September 30th. The successful
applicant will be asked to provide confirmation of university or college
enrolment before the scholarship will be issued.
All selections are final. Scholarships are one-time only and
will not be awarded to the same applicant.
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 activism 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.
Who can apply:
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 on your application form.
At least five of the 10 scholarships will be awarded to students
who identify as representing equity-seeking groups: racialized workers,
Aboriginal workers, workers with disabilities; LGBTTIQQ2S (lesbian, gay,
bi-sexual, transgender, transsexual, intersexed, queer, questioning, and
two-spirited) workers, francophone workers and women workers. Applicants should
acknowledge their eligibility for this equity qualification on their application
form, if applicable.
How to apply for an OPSEU Global Solidarity Scholarship:
1. Download the Application Form
here and fill it out completely.
2. Include the following required submissions with your
application form:
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?
The deadline for submissions is June
15, 2012.
Send your application form, essay, and personal summary to:
OPSEU Global Solidarity Scholarship Fund
c/o OPSEU Training and Development Unit,
100 Lesmill Road,
Toronto, ON M3B 3P8
Or submit by email to
scholarships@opseu.org.
Essays and personal summaries are reviewed and marked by an
independent adjudicator. Essays will not be returned to the applicants.
Scholarships are awarded by September 30th. The successful
applicants will be asked to provide confirmation of university or college
enrollment before the scholarship will be issued.
All selections are final. Scholarships are one-time only and
will not be awarded more than once to the same applicant.
The Larry Cripps Scholarship Fund
- 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. Please submit your relationship to
an OPSEU member and the number of his/her Local on your application form.
- 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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- 1. Download the Application Form
here and fill it out completely.
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- 2. Include the following required submissions with
your application form:
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A personal statement about why you have chosen to study
corrections and what your future goals are as a result of their studies.
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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
- The deadline for submissions is
June 15th, 2012.
- Send your application form, essay, and personal statement
to:
- OPSEU Larry Cripps Scholarship Fund
c/o OPSEU Training and Development Unit,
100 Lesmill Road,
Toronto, ON M3B 3P8
- Or submit by email to
scholarships@opseu.org.
- Essays and personal summaries are reviewed and marked by an
independent adjudicator. Essays will not be returned to the applicants.
- Scholarships are awarded by September 30th. The successful
applicants will be asked to provide confirmation of university or college
enrollment before the scholarship will be issued.
- All selections are final. Scholarships are one-time only
and will not be awarded more than once to the same applicant.
The Hospital Professionals Division offers seven scholarships
(one per region) of $750 each annually to students who are entering professions
within the HPD.(For more information about the HPD, and a list of professions included,
click here.)
Who can apply:
The scholarship is open to OPSEU members or their dependents who
are enrolled in a publicly-funded, recognized Canadian university or college.
If you are a dependent of an OPSEU member, please submit the member’s name, your
relationship him or her, and the number of his or her Local on your application
form.
To receive the scholarship, the student must be confirmed as
enrolled in a Hospital Professional program
How to apply:
1. Download the Application Form
here
and fill it out completely.
2. Include the following required submissions with your
application form:
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A personal statement about why you have chosen a
hospital profession and what your future goals are
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An essay of no more than 1,500 words answering both of
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?
The deadline for submissions is
September 4, 2012.
Send your application form, essay, and personal statement to:
OPSEU HPD Scholarship Fund
c/o OPSEU Training and Development Unit,
100 Lesmill Road,
Toronto, ON M3B 3P8
Or submit by email to
scholarships@opseu.org.
Essays and personal summaries are reviewed and marked by an
adjudicator appointed by the Hospital Professionals Division of OPSEU. Essays
will not be returned to the applicants.
Successful applicants will be asked to provide confirmation of
university or college enrollment before the scholarship will be issued.
All selections are final. Scholarships are one-time only and
will not be awarded more than once to the same 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.
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.
Who can apply
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.
How to apply:
1. Download the Application Form
here
and fill it out completely.
2. Include the following required submissions with your
application form:
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·A short essay (no more than 1,000 words) on a topic
related to disability issues
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·A brief resume indicating your disability,
accomplishments, field of study and your relationship to an OPSEU member
in good standing.
The deadline for applications is
September 14th, 2012.
Send your application form, essay, and brief resume to:
OPSEU Carol McGregor Scholarship Fund
c/o OPSEU Training and Development Unit,
100 Lesmill Road,
Toronto, ON M3B 3P8
Or submit by email to
scholarships@opseu.org.
Essays and personal summaries are reviewed and marked by an
independent adjudicator. Essays will not be returned to the applicants.
Successful applicants will be asked to provide confirmation of
university or college enrollment before the scholarship will be issued.
All selections are final. Scholarships are one-time only and
will not be awarded more than once to the same applicant.
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