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| [Feds] UW Board of Governors approves 'notional' tuition increase |
Contributed by: Chris Edey on Tuesday, April 06 2004 @ 09:34 PM CDT
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At its April 6 meeting, the UW Board of Governors voted in favour of 'notional' tuition increases for the 2004-2005 academic year. These increases (1.6 per cent in regulated and 15 per cent in deregulated programs) will not take effect if the Ontario government follows through on its commitment to freeze tuition.
The Government has indicated that it will do so, the University has passed a budget based on a frozen-tuition scenario; however, the government has not yet legislated the freeze or indicated how much compensatory funding (if any) will be provided to Ontario's universities.
The chief justification offered by UW officials for this increase was to keep tuition levels consistent with the Board’s existing tuition fee policy and to apprise "university stakeholders and the provincial government… of the growing revenue gap created by [the tuition] freeze."
The Federation of Students opposes this tuition increase. The Federation is very concerned that these 'notional' increases will become very real once the tuition freeze ends, which could result in a huge tuition increase in two years time. Furthermore, the Federation feels that this measure is unnecessary, given that UW’s 2004-2005 budget included $13.7 million in 'strategic investments' and that quality is being maintained. Funds from the Quality Assurance Fund and from the expected government compensation are sufficient to fund the university’s current needs without tuition increases.
At Tuesday's meeting, Feds President Chris Edey and the President of the Graduate Students' Association, Simon Guthrie, spoke out against the increase. All student board members voted against the increase, they were joined by one staff representative. The motion received broad support from the remainder of the Board and passed comfortably.
At its Sunday meeting, Federation of Students, Students' Council passed a motion opposing the increase and calling upon the Liberal government to enact its campaign promise. A formal announcement regarding the tuition freeze is expected soon.
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| Authored by: Merv on Wednesday, April 07 2004 @ 12:52 AM CDT |
I read today that Child Care for a year costs about $6000, which is about as much as my tuition. So just to put this into perspective: we're getting a world-class education for as but as much as it would cost to sit in a room all day and drink apple juice.
If university is worth something to you, it's worth money to you.
[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: hems on Wednesday, April 07 2004 @ 03:57 PM CDT |
On another, less philosophical topic than the other comments, Edey and
Guthrie raised an interesting point about the long-term consequences of
using 'notional' fees.
Clearly, in the short term this is a bargaining tactic that UW is using with the
ON government. No real consequence from that IF the Liberals hold the
freeze and somehow compensate with extra funding.
The long term consequence is that when the freeze comes off, the University
could drastically increase tuition based on their 'notional' rates they have
been keeping track of and making everybody aware (stakeholders and
governments alike) how much they would like to increase tuition by.
What are the mechanisms in place so that UW doesn't have to increase
tuition by such a drastic rate in 2 years? Will the regulated/deregulated rules
still apply to maximum amounts of tuition hikes? Will UW not stop raising
their tuition until they hit their 'notional' goals?[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: reposter on Wednesday, April 07 2004 @ 04:25 PM CDT |
click here.
It even refers to Waterloo specifically...[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: mr. hansard on Wednesday, April 07 2004 @ 10:49 PM CDT |
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LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO
ASSEMBLÉE LÉGISLATIVE DE L'ONTARIO
Tuesday 6 April 2004 Mardi 6 avril 2004
www.ontla.on.ca/hansard/house_debates/38_parl/Session1/L027A.htm#P369_70575
TUITION
Mr Rosario Marchese (Trinity-Spadina): My question is to the Premier. You have frozen tuition fees. If this is true, why is the board of governors from the University of Waterloo voting on a 15% increase on deregulated programs today?
Hon Dalton McGuinty (Premier, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs): The minister is anxious to speak to this.
Hon Mary Anne V. Chambers (Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities):
We have good news for universities and colleges in Ontario. As I said, I think last week, good news is about to be announced and provided to them. I'm sure the member for Trinity-Spadina will also hear the news when I provide that to the universities and colleges. I hope he will also respect the fact that we are honouring our commitment to freeze tuition fees for two years, and honouring our commitment to compensate the universities and colleges appropriately. We are fully committed to accessible, affordable, high-quality education in a sector that has been strong and will be maintained.
Mr Marchese: This is good news indeed. I've got a problem: The universities don't seem to know it yet. If this is true, why has the board of governors from Wilfrid Laurier University passed a motion calling for a 10% fee hike in 2004 for the business math programs? Clearly they haven't heard the good news. My point to you is: Are tuition fees frozen or not? If they are, would you let the universities know about the good news as quickly as you possibly can?
Hon Mrs Chambers: I truly hope that politics will be set aside and the member for Trinity-Spadina will help me communicate the good news to the universities.
Copyright © 2004
Hansard Reporting and Interpretation Services
Office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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| Authored by: Avi on Thursday, April 08 2004 @ 08:36 PM CDT |
Back to the original subject, I thought I would share a link to the Board of
Governors meeting agenda of this week, which includes some budget
numbers that may be of interest, and help give an understanding of how the
university works. In particular, see pages 18-23 of http://
www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/2004.apr6.bog.ag.open.pdf
Also, I encourage all of you to bookmark www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/
infosec/Sen_BOG.htm and keep up to date. You can also actually attend the
open portion (which is usually everything but the last 5 minutes) of these
meetings. You can learn many interesting things about the university this
way. Whatever your politics, it would be great if more students were
interested and involved in governance here at Waterloo.[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: joe on Monday, April 12 2004 @ 08:02 PM CDT |
i think the idea might be, continue with this notional tuition hike every term that tuition remains frozen. when tuition thaws, they can charge us the super inflated price.
more likely, if the tuition freeze were to become a long term thing, then the university could lock the gov't into a long-term funding model, to avoid a real meltdown when tuition thaws.
... i'm putting my tinfoil hat back on now.
joe.[ Parent ]
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| Authored by: No CEO on Thursday, April 15 2004 @ 03:59 PM CDT |
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