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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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' d/ L- f% M+ R# KYesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties
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news to report from that meeting.
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First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current ) g) c6 e: ^; y T! j! q
undergraduate international students from the increase to the
' w0 e& T' l, d& [differential fee. This means that next year, all current international + s# r( T( e8 U9 c3 b* `3 f" C
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
2 l. c0 U$ g% q$ J) D* a$ c$ [tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). ; M4 D' @# m( R! k8 i) `
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase . D( U6 r/ Z7 U; b4 J" B: F7 |
the differential for international graduate students.0 y' ]5 N- D/ s/ W3 T1 Z
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an ; ~" v% e$ u: L
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
+ g! d o. E a/ y' Q8 R& ^9 _6 a" ^. N220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students
& F/ i2 u0 m7 ]) G1 B/ dwill pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At # I( B' R* `. h; G* Z
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
& j+ V* I7 K: xtuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
; A+ W6 a) U% }( _4 Xincreases once they are here.
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9 w/ F3 P8 \7 n9 Q3 R: {The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the & x- X2 \ ~# ]# ~( ?* A
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I 4 w- {4 \9 t ]) ~' z) v5 f
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that
6 q7 O- O5 q! \have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
+ h5 ?# W" d8 Mincrease. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your
9 k- n4 ?& d( ^8 s2 h6 Phelp. Thank you.
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) U) C/ l; \3 y% KSincerely,
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Jordan Blatz
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University of Alberta Students' Union |
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