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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. # Z7 F8 q1 t1 K& T
) M4 t k! z- `) yDear International Undergraduate Students,
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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties % d1 O2 X8 v- D; s7 Y3 i. _5 t5 i
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad 1 Q$ O5 R1 D! k, ?2 [, K
news to report from that meeting." I/ | ^* T& Y5 W$ n
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First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
3 y7 @7 g" ?) Zundergraduate international students from the increase to the ' @ O$ W# ?+ j! T
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international
5 q/ d" T) Y) W- g. A4 y$ |# b2 kstudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
) P0 P5 ^5 L: h n3 s; ~tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
0 c5 t( q6 n( y7 v# J3 vAlso, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase : w( k+ z; ^ I8 M8 b
the differential for international graduate students.. ~; I7 w. c U4 N
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
. s5 w5 }+ s' z: j9 \( @9 d: Hincrease in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to * l3 I: Q& V) p7 [/ D
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students ; e$ p/ a& a# @. B
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
j/ o5 G3 A# U( ^# Nleast, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in 3 `- U; C2 u" e+ r0 G
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected " V* @7 T6 g$ D5 ^9 H. m& Y
increases once they are here.' _ H9 v, [9 i) X' M
9 r/ \# y0 x7 \: aThe Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
/ Q0 r! d! C: A1 jinternational differential as well as the base tuition increase. I ( j6 i; [- i7 u# I
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that / S p$ ]9 t1 J/ l9 p
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this % x: |9 R# _8 A7 ]4 D
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your R Q7 ]4 O3 ?( h
help. Thank you.9 X; k- V+ j! W6 A" v1 a$ U
% M0 I' {. Q k4 h0 V' WSincerely,
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Jordan Blatz
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