Education Council

Other Education Council Standing Committees provide in-depth proposal review and include the Integrated Curriculum Committee (ICC) and the Academic Governance Committee (AGC). These standing committees make recommendations to Education Council and Council relies on its standing committees to ensure appropriate expertise. All standing committees report directly to Education Council.

In December 2005, the Okanagan College Education Council officially took over from an Interim Education Council in place during the transition from Okanagan University College (OUC) to Okanagan College.

Okanagan College Education Council has its roots in the Okanagan University College Education Council. The OUC Education Council met for the first time in February of 1995 following substantial changes to the College and Institute Act of British Columbia (“the Act ”). These changes to the Act included the establishment of a bicameral system of institutional governance in which the Board of Governors and Education Council were assigned roles and responsibilities.

OUC Education Council met monthly on a regular basis from February 1995 until April 2005. On March 17, 2004, the BC government announced the 2005 dissolution of OUC and the institution was placed under the control of a government-appointed Public Trustee.

The South Kelowna, Vernon, Penticton, and Salmon Arm campuses of OUC became the new Okanagan College and the Okanagan College Interim Education Council was formed with faculty, staff and students elected to the former OUC Education Council and moving to Okanagan College. To ensure representation from all regions and representative groups, a small number of volunteers were also named to the Interim Education Council. These members, as well as administrators named by the Okanagan College President, met from May to November of 2005.

Following elections, the formally-constituted Okanagan College Education Council began work on December 7, 2005.

The bylaws under which Education Council operates are available.

While some members of Education Council are appointed, others are elected. Faculty (10 seats) and support staff (two seats) elections take place in the spring; student (four seats) elections take place in the fall. The Election rules are available online.