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Hi, there
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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. 4 S& \, b$ l$ v# E& _/ F& v" v
' I" J; Q1 e) w( h& }% o; tDear International Undergraduate Students,5 V$ G3 h+ G6 ]. v
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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
* T8 S1 X. Q \Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad , y+ o" }5 a- u
news to report from that meeting.
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First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
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differential fee. This means that next year, all current international
8 J& w& K0 u o, ~( T1 W, Sstudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base / j) r/ Q# z+ w0 s6 I3 B+ I4 S7 g
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). 6 t- Z9 g) t' d: ]
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase , M! j4 T0 n" ~2 w& r7 I; m& y" f
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an & E1 f% P9 Z" `9 ]6 Y
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to t7 e7 V7 L4 R9 [9 M
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students
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least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
- P( H/ A1 ^0 otuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
# W" z$ M$ ^# M) b& `2 l4 P- Kincreases once they are here.* o8 T8 j/ D4 t8 V
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the [9 ?) O: ?5 k4 I* P+ |
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I
) A1 x1 x3 \! R6 v: @% R2 x2 Uwould like to say thank you to all of the international students that
2 t9 j- }3 H5 ]% H) I! s0 Ghave sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this 9 H5 y# s' v- s6 Q: ]
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
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Sincerely,
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Jordan Blatz! C1 k" x8 c$ J! K1 i) `7 p
President; j% b8 c, I1 \( z/ u
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