Tough months ahead for students attending private career college in Kitchener

I felt a lot of emotions. I felt confused. I felt a little frustrated. Students attending private career colleges are facing a couple of tough months ahead. Many were anticipating that they were going to get OSAP to help them pay for school and tuition. But now that the Ministry of Colleges and Universities has paused payments to students attending these institutions, it means that they're going to have to think about maybe getting a job to help pay for school and for life expenses. Yeah, so right now I just, just getting a job, being able to start paying off, you know, just rent, school, groceries, life things right now, which is very difficult. One thing for, about OSAP, like in the past as well, when I had received it in post-secondary, it helped relieve like the stress of not having to work as much. And because of school, there's that added stress, so I'm not able to. be as successful as I would like in my school. It's also impacting the institutions themselves who rely on tuition dollars to operate. When you think of operational staff, adjunct faculty, student life, student resourcing. Learning resourcing platforms that we use in order to ensure students have a really great and excellent learning experience, all those are tied back to tuition dollars for a large part of the budget. So to have a lot of that pulled away for us, you know, upwards of $150,000 for a student size of... A 27 full-time enrolled students is massive. So the importance of our door staying open to our context is highly important because I feel like we're rare as it is as a Christian higher education institution. So looking for those that are passionate about that to come alongside and kind of support us in this journey is something that we're looking to do.