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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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. ^7 x$ A/ P+ d/ `0 K4 w$ GDear International Undergraduate Students,
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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
9 h- R. E$ c( M/ E8 pCouncil met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
3 J/ [# L5 x3 n! I1 Y+ _news to report from that meeting.# Z- T9 |0 ]( Y8 Z9 Y3 x2 X
5 A- s' p8 F. KFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current ( U/ A) x5 D0 h+ }" w+ P5 s
undergraduate international students from the increase to the 8 P$ w0 Y# _% B* I ~
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international 0 a3 l2 ?5 J" c1 G" [ m- s" w
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base 4 L- D3 Q3 K: B5 G
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
2 W( x9 w( J {7 x- eAlso, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase
9 m0 D: k1 E' v. H7 f# e, L( athe differential for international graduate students.3 U0 ~* [# S$ j m7 N$ a, e: i
, M8 \! w" N+ Z) pNow, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
3 h$ n! @* n4 r; ~/ n, [; Q: u4 ]increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
" k" O" E7 h3 @, V220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students / x; p& I8 `7 j
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
) h, v. f0 F0 e4 _, A n I) W& @# dleast, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in : r/ h7 z& r# Z5 e8 j* A
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
; U( N5 s- u: n6 Mincreases once they are here.
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. i. L% a2 W9 u3 `- D$ ~* R. lThe Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the + B/ h, U. k* Y4 k
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I 5 z9 q! n# ]" }
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that ! ^3 l- e& x+ j% P# j
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
$ j1 m3 t/ \7 H/ T1 @increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
+ x3 j/ [7 N' T/ @6 h0 y0 w8 Zhelp. Thank you.6 u9 g' {1 O: M% T! t7 L
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Sincerely,
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4 z9 K) }( y3 Y K* K8 J( @, C9 CJordan Blatz8 N2 A: m6 n9 ?( X# N+ `" u
President
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