La Cité students eligible for up to $500 in strike compensation

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Students at La Cité Collégiale will be eligible for up to $500 for losses incurred during the five-week provincewide college teacher’s strike.

Ontario ordered the 24 colleges to reimburse students for their expenses with the money the schools saved in instructor wages during the strike, the longest in the province’s history. Each college is responsible for administering its own fund.

As is the case with Algonquin College, full-time La Cité students currently enrolled in the fall term are eligible to apply for funding. A spokesperson for the school was not immediately available. However, a memo sent to students states they have until April 28, 2018 to provide “supporting documents” that they are out-of-pocket as a result of the strike.

This can include anything from paid parking and bus passes that went unused to rent for those who live on campus and cancellation or change fees for airplane, train or bus reservations. The memo instructed interested students to discuss the relief fund with one of the school’s “client experience specialists” at the administrative office.

While Mirenda Volafeno, a 20-year-old hotel management student, did not lose money during the strike, she has friends at the school who felt overwhelmed by the lost class days and decided to drop their studies.

“I know some people that are just quitting because it was all too much for them,” said Volafeno.

While some programs may not be completed this year because of a lack of time, Volafeno’s department decided to condense the curriculum so the year would finish on time.

La Cité marketing student Alexandre Frappier said his year will also be condensed, which works well for him.

“I’m not going to lose the year after all. That’s pretty good. I’m pretty happy, too, the way they fixed it. I won’t lose my summer because I work in the summer.”

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