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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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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
: q, [! n& e/ f" S7 f" [- {Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
1 v& ~. w$ u3 G- E0 Q6 Jnews to report from that meeting.. ]3 r* J8 Q) g9 j
* O9 J3 p/ D( ~* A. e2 c8 AFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
4 _7 a1 O# T; R/ Eundergraduate international students from the increase to the $ d" j" n ?6 D r1 O
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international : U9 {: ~0 l# r" g
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
# J9 W. B& ]! Ktuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
( R5 g# p5 N9 `, u* QAlso, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase
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; {# f- `2 c0 sNow, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an - t* z+ |. L4 y8 i6 [7 k+ M
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to - I$ M7 u6 E& {1 @ R+ N
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students - x( ~+ X2 }, a' R
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
7 m- T4 Z" C( O7 @least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in ; D- v+ b9 ~; _6 g
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
E' P1 ~5 l" ]. e) C6 W8 hincreases once they are here.1 \/ \) p$ q) U' E5 d* B
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the ) `& U2 z& c2 b- }0 b
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I
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have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this 5 J9 S2 f% d! N8 z
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
# E$ x3 [; [& T ghelp. Thank you.
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Sincerely,
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University of Alberta Students' Union |
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