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) P9 N8 T% B* R# \. ?: P" O5 C- xGood 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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Dear International Undergraduate Students,5 m# Q, T9 ]0 v7 H
0 E$ g) P# q% I( O0 `0 X. [1 SYesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
% b7 p. U+ V% d; n" Y3 v; K* w2 ICouncil met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
+ C p6 u! D; P* d9 @news to report from that meeting.3 L4 W. n0 ~0 q2 }, i4 O7 q/ N
" `$ S6 u S Z9 }9 z5 [First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
% m- ~3 `/ \' ~9 x+ H+ F: ?undergraduate international students from the increase to the : w. }) H& o. z6 q7 g9 Y
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international 3 h8 l- {4 Y$ F$ H* e% Q
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base 5 K" ^3 F5 Q+ }
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
. l- |9 n3 J1 ?2 k. Y5 VAlso, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase $ }7 h; k V0 `: [. v7 j6 U. ~
the differential for international graduate students.1 N4 k( P" U* T: `3 N" [
# [- t$ [( U2 | v0 ?% PNow, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an / F0 X7 H, q7 P; _( a
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
2 {. q9 }! a: [) x" |5 Y220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students / Q X% R/ J; i: A% a2 L
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At 9 y$ X4 P7 c4 f- S: P
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in ) r' b: |9 x% c
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected 9 o1 i8 q* u- u; p, K
increases once they are here.
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1 c) o; D- ]8 r, N i5 AThe Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
, ]7 b2 y" M7 X3 W, M9 b0 Pinternational differential as well as the base tuition increase. I 1 U! u! {2 T4 b9 Z6 A
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that
! }7 R0 W( g# e2 w: \ Zhave sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
) Z& w" ~! G0 q8 F! }! Hincrease. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
1 b' O3 L u2 P4 s$ Z, T! chelp. Thank you.! { F- Z2 X( v
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Sincerely,
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Jordan Blatz
5 t- S( d# @' I1 uPresident0 A% Y8 b" j3 _' J- @
University of Alberta Students' Union |
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