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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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$ P, X& V, s) [% EDear International Undergraduate Students,# v6 g8 ^2 H3 _8 ?
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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties , W, Q5 E# K3 {7 @2 y( I
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad : B- Y% v7 \7 i. H* G! J
news to report from that meeting.
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# v1 O# ]' |- d qFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current v* g+ F2 W+ q( J! P! \ B
undergraduate international students from the increase to the + Q" B) B0 }4 B" [, t5 U/ \
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international
5 K# Q4 k( F7 q' astudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
; D! e1 C n) }5 a# f: s, p) Y5 [tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). + @* H% J) x# B! I- P6 b
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase * F0 s6 |5 Q8 e% e4 T
the differential for international graduate students.
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an - e8 x6 p0 L% Q
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
& U. L$ |0 H9 R' M+ H2 j220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students
, J, O# i W+ e2 lwill pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
0 F; q6 k$ w+ L- B2 W% G! Y. Bleast, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
, L8 [! S4 d& ]4 v, j' D+ Xtuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected * s" L. v8 K- H' G- n* z
increases once they are here.2 N! Y) m$ P( o) [
, ]1 J" x2 N2 t9 U5 R6 m/ e- z2 UThe Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
/ L4 _ t# n0 I7 ` `5 W1 Finternational differential as well as the base tuition increase. I 5 W. y2 m' d6 _: J1 P
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that
$ q- Q# e1 A E# _( z" I }' Ghave sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this 1 H2 m/ q) ~/ m
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
2 d! ~0 N& P2 p" V: d, m3 Ohelp. Thank you.: P9 _% i Q r9 X
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Sincerely,
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Jordan Blatz1 @- E- q2 |& a5 R% @% F1 c" }
President# {: f: E7 K0 X" u' |8 b0 p
University of Alberta Students' Union |
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