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Hi, there
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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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Dear International Undergraduate Students,
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6 s. C8 @, \/ }1 p' H' [9 r) OYesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties ' L D: J! X& B! B
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
+ P1 [# Q/ G! ?6 f4 ]( Qnews to report from that meeting.
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f! D+ [; T/ e! o/ z& _+ B7 jFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current 1 d2 M8 z- V' S/ d7 Z: Z( ?/ M8 z+ _
undergraduate international students from the increase to the " Z( t7 G0 z( f6 W7 L
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international 0 V' V& _; z& F; C
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base $ I' n; h! M. l- C) [% e
tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
; V) H4 K6 s9 D- `+ Y1 O GAlso, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase ( V* a$ q$ C5 i( S' |" G5 g
the differential for international graduate students.5 Y3 Z5 J) t9 H% m& ^
* U# ]: P8 Y' u- |) ~Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an : j9 [5 }! C5 ~( x* A
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
( J) \/ F, Y) i a: i; f' _220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students
7 }5 W) K# o8 fwill pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At 3 s# n9 q2 v" T, O! ~
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in , [* V& q5 r7 \9 ?
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
( a8 T5 o, U' D5 eincreases once they are here.
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
+ }7 D) U- C4 |2 b! j$ ?international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I
# l" g' g/ r, X' j$ o# ?; e# ?1 _( {would like to say thank you to all of the international students that
+ S- V* c" Q/ l8 C! i! i* Dhave sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this 4 C* @% P$ H, V8 K
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
; J6 ~0 T0 c. T1 G, [# yhelp. Thank you.
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4 q9 Y- {8 c5 Q" qSincerely,
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Jordan Blatz; l- C" ~5 o) W$ Y! T
President$ n* s% `( ]8 }( v& l3 @
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