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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. , a5 E4 `. G6 C+ p# y$ v9 _
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Dear International Undergraduate Students,- {! Q0 h9 I! Z J, N% C
' j& V4 t5 j( s) N! PYesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties ( I7 \6 B! n3 P. @
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad 7 ~ j& [, U# d. k7 |5 Q; J
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) x! V, X. X3 a& xFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current ' w1 Z" z( c. F& e! {4 |
undergraduate international students from the increase to the
" r& D' `, C% r# V* C3 Zdifferential fee. This means that next year, all current international " L _0 `# h3 P0 g
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base 7 N) V" ^& L. k @
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
- A3 b3 h/ F! \; r3 G3 x2 JAlso, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase
$ Z! Z3 R% m3 O' Qthe differential for international graduate students.+ ~5 X# h2 n# @8 f
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
]5 T" X. E5 j, X" { @+ C" uincrease in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
0 {2 I. H8 J0 t% z220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students
4 m- I( n) e, Z% T- ]will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At 4 q# x0 |2 W0 ?" @0 `! q
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
, g$ O- J& b' i% B5 z$ [tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected / R) D! A7 n. v$ H* e! `7 U5 Z
increases once they are here.
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the $ W6 [) V4 s2 P) d5 S0 ~( F9 Y, O
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I ! C# P: K6 h+ Z
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that . f) y% Y6 j9 Y, I. P# ?# p5 N! R
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
4 a: f1 y( S) u" l; ^increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
6 e. [; ~) Z4 ^: s$ w- F5 Ahelp. Thank you.
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Sincerely,
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1 @9 q/ Z9 y. hJordan Blatz
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University of Alberta Students' Union |
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