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Office of the Registrar

Election Schedule - Students

Nomination Period:
March 24 – April 4, 2025

Candidate Names Published:
April 7, 2025

Campaign Period: 
April 7 – 22, 2025

Election Dates:
April 23 – April 30, 2025

Announcement of Results:
May 1, 2025

Appeal Deadline:
May 5, 2025

Board of Governors Election - Students

Board of Governors - Students (2 Positions Available)
Term: Aug 1 2025 – July 31, 2026

To submit your application:

  1. Gather all supporting documents
  2. Download and complete three nomination forms
    1. Attach completed forms to the online application as part of step 3
  3. Submit an (form is open during the nomination period, see below for dates)

Education Council Election - Students

Education Council - Students (2 Positions Available)
Term: August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2026

  1. South Okanagan Similkameen (Penticton) - 1 Position
  2. North Okanagan (Vernon) - 1 Position

To submit your application:

  1. Gather all supporting documents
  2. Download and complete three nomination forms
    1. Attach completed forms to the online application as part of step 3
  3. Submit an (form is open during the nomination period, see election schedule)

Election Schedule - Education Council Faculty

Nomination Period:
April 1 – April 14, 2025

Candidate Names Published:
April 15, 2025

Campaign Period: 
April 15 – May 1, 2025

Election Dates:
May 2 - 11, 2025

Announcement of Results:
May 12, 2025

Appeal Deadline:
May 15, 2025

Education Council Election - Faculty

Education Council - Faculty (4 Positions Available)
Term: August 1 2025- July 31 2027

  1. Faculty Shuswap Revelstoke (1)
  2. Faculty North Okanagan (1)
  3. Faculty South Okanagan-Similkameen (1)
  4. Faculty Any Region (1)

To submit your application:

  1. Gather all supporting documents
  2. Download and complete three nomination forms
    1. Attach completed forms to the online application as part of step 3
  3. Submit an (form is open during the nomination period, see election schedule)

Information Regarding Elections and Campaigns

Elections for positions on 911±¬ÁÏÍø Board of Governors and Education Council are conducted by the Registrar’s Office. 

Questions may be emailed to elections@okanagan.bc.ca.

To obtain further details about the regulations governing the election, please click on the button below.

Election rules

To access further details about the guidelines governing the campaign process, please click the button provided below.

Campaign rules

Eligibility Requirements

Faculty/Instructor

Faculty/Instructor member means any faculty member or vocational instructor employed by 911±¬ÁÏÍø who is a member of the 911±¬ÁÏÍø Faculty Association or BC Government and Service Employees’ Union (Vocational Instructors).

Any faculty member or vocational instructor shall be deemed eligible to stand for election if they in good standing with their representative group and have an employment contract or a reasonable expectation of a contract that covers the period of the term of office.

Support staff

Support staff member means any individual employed by 911±¬ÁÏÍø who is a member of BC Government and Service Employees’ Union Support Staff or covered by the Terms and Conditions for Administrators or Excluded Staff and is not in a position excluded under Appendix A.

Any support staff member shall be deemed eligible to stand for election if they in good standing with their representative group and have an employment contract or a reasonable expectation of a contract that covers the period of the term of office.

Student 

Student means any person enrolled as a student at 911±¬ÁÏÍø in a program approved by Education Council.

Eligibility to stand for election and to hold office.

Be deemed to be in good standing by the Registrar. Any Student is eligible be nominated to be a Student elected member with the following exception: that a Student candidate may not be employed by the College as a Support Staff, Faculty or Educational Administrator except when the employment falls under one of the following: Letter of Understanding #1 - Student Employees, Letter of Understanding #2 – Co-operative Education Students and Letter of Understanding #3 – Research Projects as part of the Collective Agreement between 911±¬ÁÏÍø (Support Staff) and the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (2014-2019 and as renegotiated).  Be considered a Student on the day the election is held.

Appeal committee

  1. The Registrar/Associate Vice President who will chair the Committee and be non-voting;
  2. A student (President of the 911±¬ÁÏÍø Student Union or designate in odd years, the President of the Vernon Students’ Association 911±¬ÁÏÍø or designate in even years);
  3. A representative from the Faculty/Instructor representative groups (Chair of the BCGEU (Vocational Instructors) or designate in odd years and the Chair of the 911±¬ÁÏÍø Faculty Association or designate in even years); and
  4. A representative from Support Staff/Administrator representative groups (Chair of BCGEU Support Staff union or designate in odd years and the Chair of the Administrators Association or designate in even years).

Note: 911±¬ÁÏÍøFA & BCGEU Vocational and 911±¬ÁÏÍøSU & VSA911±¬ÁÏÍø agreed to serve on alternate years.