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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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" }" F( E' F$ P1 HDear International Undergraduate Students,! c: X7 a8 G) C9 l1 b
. F; x. M2 i8 d, k. QYesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
7 u1 ^' ?- D, @' V2 ]( S; TCouncil met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad / y1 V0 I8 p' _% d+ h
news to report from that meeting.
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$ g/ W2 ~& J! {- n5 yFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current 1 X0 u" W0 |8 r; F1 `1 v2 W- z
undergraduate international students from the increase to the : l- I3 Q5 W2 Y [
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international 8 H8 g/ H" k0 R" J1 C
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base W, p8 L# C9 d* A; I
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). 7 s3 F3 d5 j( b: Z, O$ @
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase 5 d6 P/ p. X/ {- P! I1 H
the differential for international graduate students. p0 \( ?, R; l2 f$ b) o6 E
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
- C/ ~( \2 D8 `2 z% r F) [increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
! x* p1 H; S; `- q* v220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students # V, @/ z6 p" O) C8 t5 ] y
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At , M; i1 g9 C+ e( f. A
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
$ d! J9 ~& f! c7 Gtuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
# S$ p/ D8 _; s, x) e% vincreases once they are here.
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1 U8 l* T" Q2 b7 c% r9 yThe Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
$ Y0 `0 G# t& z5 Yinternational differential as well as the base tuition increase. I & N6 M/ E& M" }5 ~" o
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that
5 x! r o/ e) Ehave sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
0 X" N8 V8 a- ?6 sincrease. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your 3 Q2 L# ~& p2 Z4 F% k/ H7 N' {( f
help. Thank you.% P3 W" r! V5 F3 }3 b) T
; L, z$ o. X. Q! fSincerely,
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. n. ^2 y4 ]8 h3 i. q& z) PJordan Blatz
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University of Alberta Students' Union |
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