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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 R7 |0 w1 m; F& O" u
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Dear International Undergraduate Students,! _0 }4 f3 }" g1 \3 Q' [- o3 w
0 U7 r: X& q4 K' V' Q, VYesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
, N" W8 l! _* X% C2 r0 CCouncil met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad 3 ?6 W$ R' C' a5 X4 u( v7 f
news to report from that meeting.
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' L8 c1 k+ A' {' A' i: b1 SFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current 8 S6 c* N- t& k9 a+ m( x, f/ o$ {
undergraduate international students from the increase to the
# v, T9 V' C- R) Gdifferential fee. This means that next year, all current international
/ ]* g! d! C6 L# X( ^5 G; e8 Jstudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base 5 Z4 \) m: J/ ?
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). . e0 G- n% F! J& R" G
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase
- z E9 Z; Z7 V5 K; S( U! sthe differential for international graduate students.
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& q4 |( L) ?/ z( k" P. S) y% HNow, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an 7 N9 R" W. z: ^) w. r6 @
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to 8 Z R: ?2 i! L4 v! S5 d
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students 7 E: q) j" A s2 w
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At & E. y. Y( ?; q
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in 8 @' C# g7 H* J6 V- j- R- r# a
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the 7 }* `/ m" O* i" I! b
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I O- `6 D$ ]4 l+ t
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that " w- k9 g! w# ~8 U
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
& G. s# V6 H4 [% `! qincrease. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your * S9 _3 F/ m1 Z/ h
help. Thank you.4 E% @5 W1 L9 @" M
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Sincerely,) n8 @( g' ?; `0 C" U2 c
5 o- X: v: x) k: YJordan Blatz4 Q5 H4 _1 _- k3 a: W0 @% s
President
3 [. l* e8 x& U+ ^: @ Q- E8 ^, E' xUniversity of Alberta Students' Union |
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