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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,& W% M$ N# T( B: p" ]& w: [
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Yesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties / `2 h1 @/ Q" {# B
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad * [0 ?- h& v7 }
news to report from that meeting.9 C, c: A" @( n0 S8 L
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First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current . w$ m3 A, ^* k5 ?) S
undergraduate international students from the increase to the
' L% \. k7 C; u* p7 |6 e) ddifferential fee. This means that next year, all current international , r# q" }* a' P( Y. H. c6 `3 y( n
students will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
) n W' |# g" Z$ ]/ Z- A1 ituition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
/ F5 B$ l/ {/ r6 `0 y& lAlso, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase & L4 @4 b. k- K+ D
the differential for international graduate students.' |5 z! b8 G8 i8 k- p! c, G8 p- v' E
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Now, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
W1 k2 t2 u# G: X* rincrease in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to 7 k3 O' H3 t2 H9 M0 ]$ b4 \
220%. This will mean that all new international undergraduate students
; ~4 d+ i' c9 d" M. ?' ?1 H5 b1 ^will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At
; G, e+ h7 s6 P4 e0 | Q, oleast, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in
; z$ e$ H, w3 r( ltuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected
- i, B2 B2 b, h) D0 \5 Xincreases once they are here.
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. R5 ? {$ g. F$ b; sThe Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
( Q* O3 ^2 l) O t" r1 x; Ginternational differential as well as the base tuition increase. I
) X% H# P+ ~$ h! G, Qwould like to say thank you to all of the international students that
4 [0 g) Z* S: v2 ?2 _8 W8 @have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this g s, I9 K4 ]. U
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your * V1 L- S. y! d! b. q
help. Thank you.. f5 |. Y9 B. ^* b- H) V5 i
1 t9 G4 I. h9 ], o6 z LSincerely,
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Jordan Blatz3 x, B$ C3 h) R( Y- \
President
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