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Hi, there
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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 1 @+ W+ h$ g0 t# D d' C
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad / c' o9 H# U* H
news to report from that meeting.; O& u2 @1 n; K, q4 [. M
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First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current " a+ x5 p) L4 c% y6 @
undergraduate international students from the increase to the + e& c1 G2 d- K* v( ~( s8 r
differential fee. This means that next year, all current international 4 V6 g/ O, ?2 O+ i1 R
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
* C" E# {. K" S* B5 stuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%). - b Q& \& ~0 d, {5 x1 t
Also, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase / m+ u0 q* d3 `& N; A1 Y1 I1 k) s
the differential for international graduate students.
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
2 `/ ?1 B' }7 L$ v( _6 w. p# [increase in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
. T8 ?$ O u s7 Q220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students / v1 E4 e9 p- C9 F6 p* d! t
will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At % C; M% Y( c0 d; v* i- }( G
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in ( M9 Z c* ~! l1 {- Q
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected $ J' ?5 E( {7 G0 W7 I. w
increases once they are here.2 k% {8 o8 t$ i2 a1 c; p- |
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
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would like to say thank you to all of the international students that ! |& e8 U9 o5 V! \/ Y
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this
6 t2 u4 u G4 p8 m- sincrease. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your 0 t8 U; O3 {5 c7 p
help. Thank you.1 e1 a+ s1 H3 b$ C w( \
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Sincerely, u. H* a" K8 G0 K/ z
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Jordan Blatz
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University of Alberta Students' Union |
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