Campaigns List
Campaigns are focused efforts where you and your peers organize around a specific issue and use your collective strength to push the University of Toronto administrators and government officials for change. When all graduate students act together, individual problems become shared campaigns, and shared campaigns build power.
Get involved today to improve your working and learning conditions! Join current campaigns, started by you and your fellow graduate students, that address issues that matter to you.
Bill 33 is an omnibus bill currently at Second Reading that bundles unrelated reforms affecting child welfare, K-12 education, and post-secondary institutions.
In 2023, your fellow students unanimously voted to fight for livable base graduate funding. Since then you and your peers fought and achieved a partial victory, increasing funding for some graduate students. Your fight continues! Join your peers to hold the University of Toronto administration to their promises and achieve a livable wage for all graduate students.
The Food Security Committee addresses the growing challenge of food insecurity among UofT graduate students. We provide immediate relief through direct services while working on long-term solutions through education, research, and advocacy.
The Mental Health Committee addresses the increasing mental health challenges among UofT graduate students. We offer immediate support through direct services while working on long-term solutions through education, research, and advocacy.
The Housing Committee works to address housing insecurity among UofT graduate students through research, support services, advocacy, and sustainable development initiatives.
The Graduate Affairs Committee is focused on addressing academic and university issues graduate students face at UofT, including issues related to academic policy, student-supervisory relations and issues of academic freedom. A large focus of the Committee in 2024-25 is to tackle issues with student-supervisor relationships.
The Student Transit campaign is focused on improving the affordability and availability of public transit in the Greater Toronto Area.
The UTGSU is a member of the provincial and national levels of the Canadian Federation of Students. The CFS is a core part of the student movement and provides research, lobbying and membership mobilization tools for all students to organize for a strong post-secondary education sector and a more socially-just world.