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/ N( j' ~, Y6 B. }" A) A- sGood 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. : O8 V. d( T% I7 Q5 O3 Q1 S
" k0 q# i) u" m8 u$ yDear International Undergraduate Students,9 x5 w8 Z" [* I3 v
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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
3 l* i3 i) y* I5 D2 v6 sCouncil met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
8 k3 R3 j9 d% ^; n; e0 ^5 T- F, I2 Ynews to report from that meeting. W$ C# i0 j3 ]% Z/ e5 _
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First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
, X) X7 O$ V' e4 Z+ dundergraduate international students from the increase to the
- Z' _% ?* G2 L7 V! E2 Q) c! ]3 Jdifferential fee. This means that next year, all current international
$ _/ n; p! V4 f. Z& n5 N; Ostudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
, D$ q( Q4 y7 Mtuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). 9 r$ V; a- Z; G9 a( ~
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase $ e1 V5 _; \; l0 b
the differential for international graduate students.# \% ?0 h# s' l% a/ T! B& [
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
7 r6 p9 R& X& X; @* S0 Y/ Pincrease in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to : C2 J& \& q) m
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students 3 r( ?5 R- \2 x7 i9 C! ^
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
# p4 T# i6 t Z3 K( ~% xleast, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
1 ?- b* w7 M( R2 B" e$ ktuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected 4 q! ]( `( {/ o1 _+ i; e8 ]
increases once they are here.
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the ; z: j8 H' l( s% c, k- Q e# T; V
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I
. a$ ]* P, Y( E5 }! rwould like to say thank you to all of the international students that
+ P& b' T! q7 S% V. qhave sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this & U) L6 _5 D+ y. N( M% }
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
. ^ N/ u' I* w+ C# zhelp. Thank you.
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* k7 \4 O5 q" M4 [Sincerely,, I% A+ t" j" T; @& |$ D7 ^5 y
" Z' n6 i7 p; n+ Q1 ~( M9 D2 MJordan Blatz& W" K& j7 [6 X( u% T- H6 h \
President
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