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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. + A/ I5 q) \, e' N& n4 T
1 c; o" o1 L4 w( f" A r5 r9 dDear International Undergraduate Students,/ y0 j4 m3 L3 H# h2 v/ R. P
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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
3 u& n4 U4 y& `0 ]Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
h. q1 `: a# q5 `( ^3 X1 Vnews to report from that meeting.# K: Y' O) S! x' @. ~: Q! @; U
: j3 k5 ]8 |, X5 z4 @2 Y# c* zFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
`7 u) i4 \( f1 mundergraduate international students from the increase to the
$ l' ^* T7 Q2 {$ K3 T* P8 sdifferential fee. This means that next year, all current international
4 u$ n) V8 y# _/ istudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base ( U2 P7 A% F! }( G: n1 r6 L' ?
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
( ^3 @% J/ R% H$ T8 {Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase
3 a8 T+ h7 ~, d5 C- Q0 U5 Rthe differential for international graduate students./ k! W: p, V) h/ Z+ n6 C) T
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
# A5 ^) m4 z: N D% B# D, dincrease in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
7 p1 {) w3 {+ A0 o% w220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students * V& o F5 w+ [
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
- C0 h7 O: R, }; R9 m$ pleast, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
+ W* y2 N+ v1 H" q/ ytuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
; `) z1 ]0 \9 C. j) J- Y4 kincreases once they are here.
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
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would like to say thank you to all of the international students that 5 H# Z/ o1 L( B4 i- [1 Y
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
; G0 D9 B; W# F, r+ Oincrease. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your * W# H9 G3 N" Z! F. o5 U0 h
help. Thank you./ {. @% I% n. t, ]/ [. b
( b s- r1 Y) wSincerely,% G1 V, b. K/ U; Z" \- @; X
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Jordan Blatz: ]8 A! L2 v: g+ k
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University of Alberta Students' Union |
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