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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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4 S" x, J2 H4 ]2 v, _Dear International Undergraduate Students,
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( P) E4 q: r5 Z: zYesterday, the Academic Planning Committee of the General Faculties `. i* Z/ k8 E8 j9 W! i( |0 C
Council met to discuss the tuition proposals. I have both good and bad
4 m) K+ y N6 {6 ]% Tnews to report from that meeting.6 V, e$ ^8 q( w2 r& [
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First, the good news. The committee decided to grandfather all current 2 a6 K' _2 `2 I# ~+ c
undergraduate international students from the increase to the
) t9 S3 a' f7 ydifferential fee. This means that next year, all current international
2 F2 X! W' K' ]& `! K2 Dstudents will pay the same tuition as this year, plus whatever base
* l5 C* b, {4 Q: E/ @tuition increase that all students face (the proposal calls for 5.75%).
' }4 X' M" G: Q* CAlso, the administration decided to withdraw their motion to increase 3 V$ D& q$ Z( X, r9 e$ G# |
the differential for international graduate students.
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6 g4 s ]. ^0 o. l. G" eNow, the bad news. The motion that the committee approved called for an
, c! a8 t1 O: F0 V% S; Mincrease in the international undergraduate differential from 157% to
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will pay $15,353.89 (assuming that the 5.75% increase happens). At 2 B6 F( R& `8 d. h) Y* Y; w3 `7 y8 m5 b
least, all new students will know what the U of A is charging in 7 \1 \/ s+ I i; I5 C0 H6 }2 d
tuition before they come and they will not face any large unexpected 2 ]. l$ c7 @; y' @1 s+ T" r4 {, d
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The Students' Union will continue to oppose both the increase in the
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a/ b% y4 I, U! i7 v- wwould like to say thank you to all of the international students that 9 B6 b! v6 U6 _9 v" J3 _, N
have sent me emails, come out to consultations, and opposed this 4 @" H/ N, j. F
increase. I couldn't have got the increase grandfathered without your 2 w0 A; ~: `3 s; N u6 Q
help. Thank you. o9 y6 x }2 w6 a. P
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Sincerely,
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1 Q! s& x" G5 R1 \Jordan Blatz
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