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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
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& h9 G- J1 f+ q- J! v7 x* lFirst, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current % d" G: I& c& A- s: K, a
undergraduate international students from the increase to the 4 u2 C9 I, t, u! u0 p7 K
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international
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tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
+ B' g" F7 @ [/ V6 U, N# i0 s; \Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase
# O: `8 l; b/ v7 l+ `$ ]the differential for international graduate students.
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. L9 ~/ W7 P/ s, e, R/ I% [" f1 fNow, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
" Q( j2 p& }2 J- l: Y O, Kincrease in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to / z0 f' }; ^ o/ f7 H0 F' B, Z; G
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students ( q6 T& N6 g1 U5 D+ G
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At 5 n$ J! @6 X( I
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in " Q6 X A( P9 N1 C6 x
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
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) P5 M+ Q1 o# k; ^: G* gThe Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the 2 Q n. l9 \& N/ V% [
international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I 6 B* C/ ]$ W4 Y
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that ' P: F8 I9 ]% |
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
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help. Thank you.
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/ D6 o6 z( z/ ^$ p+ O) aSincerely,
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Jordan Blatz0 u- x" T F: J% B2 m- X6 u
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University of Alberta Students' Union |
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