Apply now for OPSEU/SEFPO’s annual scholarships

We are now inviting scholarship applications for the 2024/25 academic year. We offer 30 annual scholarship opportunities!

• The Continuing Education Scholarship is open to members in good standing who are looking to continue their education at any post-secondary program during the 2024-2025 school year. This scholarship is offered in each OPSEU/SEFPO region.
• The Curt Bishop Scholarship is open to dependents of OPSEU/SEFPO members in good standing who are studying at a publicly-funded, publicly-run post-secondary institution in Ontario for the 2024-2025 school year.
• The Fred Upshaw Scholarship will be awarded to a dependent of a racialized OPSEU/SEFPO member in good standing who is pursuing studies in labour relations and/or social justice and human rights and is studying at a publicly-funded, publicly-run post-secondary institution in Ontario for the 2024-2025 school year.
• Up to seven Hospital Professionals Division (HPD) Scholarships are offered each year – one per OPSEU/SEFPO Region – to students who are entering professions within the HPD. Applicants must be members in good standing or their dependents, and be confirmed as enrolled in a Hospital Professionals program at a publicly funded, recognized Canadian university or college for the 2024-2025 school year.
• The Karen Millar Memorial Scholarship is open to dependents of OPSEU/SEFPO members in good standing who are enrolled in a Social Services program at a Canadian college or university in the 2024-2025 school year.
• The Amy Stiles Scholarship is open to the dependents of any contract faculty who is an OPSEU/SEFPO member in good standing, and who is confirmed as having worked on a contract at one of Ontario’s public colleges within the six months prior to the application deadline.
• The Larry Cripps Scholarship is open to dependents of OPSEU/SEFPO members in good standing who are confirmed as enrolled in either a Police Foundations Course or a Law and Security/Corrections course at a publicly-funded, Canadian university or college in the 2024-2025 school year.
• OPSEU/SEFPO offers ten Global Solidarity Scholarships annually to support our goals of social justice and global solidarity. These scholarships are open to dependents of OPSEU/SEFPO members in good standing who are studying at a publicly funded, recognized Canadian university or college in the 2024-2025 school year.
• The Carol McGregor Scholarship is open to dependents of OPSEU/SEFPO members in good standing who have a visible or invisible disability and are pursuing post-secondary education at a publicly-funded university, community college, or trades program in Ontario.

Applications for all 2024 scholarships are due by July 31, 2024.For more information on each of these scholarships, and to download an application form click here.OPSEU/SEFPO Scholarships are administered by the Member Education Unit. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.