Ontario Committee on Student Awards

• Ontario Committee on Student Awards

• Ontario Student Awards Committee

• OCSA

• OSAC

The Ontario Committee on Student Awards was first appointed by the Minister of University Affairs in 1966 as an ad hoc advisory board on policies relating to financial assistance to students in all areas of post-secondary education. The committee was broadly representative of the academic community in Ontario, including administrators, faculty and students from both the universities and colleges of applied arts and technology as well as members of the Department and of the Association of Student Awards Officers. The Committee appears to have been alternatively known as The Ontario Student Awards Committee (OSAC). It continued to exist after the formation of the Department (later Ministry) of Colleges and Universities in 1971.

After an internal review by the Management Committee of the Ministry of Colleges and Universities in 1974, the Committee on Student Awards was replaced by a joint subcommittee of the Ontario Comittee on University Affairs and the Council of Regents. The Committee on Student Awards voted itself out of existence in February 1974 and dissolved on March 31, 1974.

The primary mandate of the Ontario Committee on Student Awards was "to ensure a clear articulation of the financial arrangements that will be required to ensure that all students have the necessary resources to undertake post-secondary education." A full statement of the "Terms of Reference" can be found in Appendix B-1 of the Annual Report, University Affairs, 1969-70, p. 21. In addition to the detailed study of current programs of student financial assistance, the Committee initiated several research projects, resulting in the preparation of the Cook-Stager Report (A Study of Programs for Financial Assistance to Students in the Province of Ontario), part of which was developed as the Clarke-Kent Report (Student Aid and Access to Higher Education in Ontario).

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Ministry of Colleges and Universities Annual Reports

Government of Ontario Telephone Directories

Internal materials in RG 32-53

Not found in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24

Archivist(s):
R. Anger/C. Levi