2024

Average Ontario university undergraduate tuition fees: $8,514 (in current dollars)

Average Ontario university undergraduate tuition fees for international students: $48,267 (in current dollars).

OCUFA has 14 staff members.

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismisses the province’s appeal of Bill 124.

Canada’s only women’s university college, Brescia University College, closes.

$1.3 billion in new provincial funding for colleges and universities is announced, in part due to OCUFA’s strong advocacy work.

OCUFA hosts its first collective bargaining conference: Bargaining Stronger, Together.

OCUFA and its allies succeed in securing the passage of federal legislation that will exempt public universities from the provisions of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. This will ensure that public universities cannot use corporate-style restructuring processes to respond to financial trouble. 

OCUFA’s Board of Directors passes a motion condemning the caste system, caste-based discrimination, and colourism.

OCUFA grows to represent more than 18,000 faculty, academic librarians, and academic professionals in 30 member organizations.