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Good news. U of A plan to stop increase tuition for students who are recently in U of A. However, they will increase tuition the current students who will go to U of A next year. Sounds fair. I deeply agree.
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* O' c8 Y" t( @+ L' N% j/ wDear International Undergraduate Students,
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) i' u" c4 e% n3 P& t' BYesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties $ t4 r4 \! c( b! u
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
, ~; e7 n; }1 D" m+ P" }: R' \news to report from that meeting.7 p/ e' T% e S6 T. l! I
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First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
3 K( L, ~" w5 ]1 B; |undergraduate international students from the increase to the 4 N! q" W j2 V5 T+ P, [
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international
8 d) g8 o" |+ N* w' h8 {3 i. ]+ [students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base $ I0 j4 E9 I) k
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). 3 o, W! y1 J; E$ V8 k9 h
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase ; C- s9 \$ q4 w
the differential for international graduate students.
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- J+ J- L% f2 x$ e* X+ JNow, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an ( J( u3 Z" a; }1 b) f% h
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to ; `# I9 f: i1 ^# u! g2 z. l# H
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students 8 L% ~; T/ M! ^5 k& C
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
; b1 Q9 F7 w% m5 Sleast, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
9 T" h X4 Z: y, M" d/ ntuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
5 e q. k) w4 b% B# Y" F* j! f7 jincreases once they are here.
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the ! ?1 C3 J( }! f8 T
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I ; W [9 u, N0 ~+ W5 c
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that ; `- f8 a8 @# p2 H7 c) `
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
8 y7 u; q" \& `8 K/ g N& Eincrease. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your 4 |! a) O/ P! I
help. Thank you.# r2 Q) f7 y/ w- [& @( x
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Sincerely,
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0 m5 g/ p& n5 j/ D$ _Jordan Blatz
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