ABOUT Colleges Ontario

Colleges Ontario is the advocacy and outreach association of Ontario's 21 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and three College Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning. It advocates for policy improvements and measures that will help produce the skilled workforce that is needed to strengthen Ontario's competitive advantage. It provides strategic counsel and services to advance Ontario's colleges as a learning resource of choice and a key gateway to both Ontario's and Canada's success. Colleges Ontario's services to colleges include advocacy and communications, research and policy development, information co-ordination, and professional development. Its current activities include coordinating advocacy and outreach campaigns for policy improvements that support colleges in their role as a major contributor to employability, economic development and technological innovation.