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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. & D" ], e/ O) {5 ^8 k5 N5 r" Z( n
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Dear International Undergraduate Students,& B. @1 S9 H6 s4 k+ x/ W
$ D# Q' o- E% ~Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties 2 |* r- U* E Y$ k( `6 u
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
1 F' l2 q5 w& D: q& E6 l/ r# h: ?news to report from that meeting.
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6 u0 P5 I7 Y2 ]First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current
; p) u( g7 e6 A4 _5 K0 L9 N' c) nundergraduate international students from the increase to the
# V& Q3 \: ]- B9 C, Ldifferential fee. This means that next year, all current international
# F# ?( I- a c8 W- }8 I4 g; \! E/ istudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
, X& x. d8 v L0 f# gtuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). + F6 _, @& ^2 w2 p: L
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase 3 ^' }( R" ~$ @& t* ^
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an 5 Y% f0 }( ~$ U
increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to , A- X) i% E8 q( {- ?2 m
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students ' K$ P8 i9 `& F6 D e6 q
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At . j+ D9 O# X' Y1 h( V' n% c
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in : {% ?2 O: Z6 _0 d6 C% ?/ e
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected 4 P9 i& \* J; E$ {. ]" {
increases once they are here.
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
1 t2 z8 h7 c) a3 ~2 ^international differential as well as the base tuition increase. I 4 i C" x+ Z# k& E; c, `. A3 E
would like to say thank you to all of the international students that , D- J5 K0 @' ~' F! b. h8 F
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this - S% P+ i, C; _$ h w& d3 e" ^
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your ' P+ o# ?" S$ Z+ ^
help. Thank you.2 g3 D; {" E% C# j
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Sincerely," k! G- E2 ~8 K) k* C
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Jordan Blatz O1 T8 l' z8 ~6 h
President. E: q4 R9 [8 C" a3 d
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