Colleges Ontario is the advocacy and outreach association of Ontario’s 21 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and three College Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning. Colleges Ontario advocates for policy improvements and measures that will help produce the skilled workforce that is needed to strengthen Ontario’s competitive advantage. Colleges Ontario provides strategic counsel and services to advance Ontario’s colleges as a learning resource of choice and a key gateway to both Ontario’s and Canada’s success.

Coordinating committees across the system cover a variety of divisions including finance, academic schools, physical resources and human resources. These coordinating committees report up to VP coordinating committees and Committee of Presidents (CoP). Click here to view and link to these committees.

OCASA partners with Colleges Ontario by sharing information, identifying key issues for administrators and aligning advocacy initiatives.

Linda Franklin, President & CEO
Colleges Ontario