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| Authored by: uws archive on Sunday, February 02 2003 @ 03:32 PM CST |
This is an archived comment posted by Andrew Dilts, Candidate for President. You can view the original
here. Curious,
I'll answer this question in greater detail in a bit, but to answer you briefly:
Do I think that all tuition should be deregulated? Absolutely not.
Do I think that it's fair that some students' tuition costs increase by 15% while others only by 2%? No.
Recognizing that the difference in inreases often is telling of the different needs of the programs (Engineers do use more lab equipment than Arts students, I believe), and that because of this tuition increases will likely never be equal "across the board," I still don't see this as fair. I doubt that we'll see tuition that doesn't increase on a yearly basis, at least not anytime in the near future, but that doesn't mean that we can't encourage the rates of increase to be more acceptable to students.
How to ensure that the University remains accessible? Two ways:
1. Help to convince the UW admin that 15% hikes do discourage the best and the brightest from coming here to UW, and
2. Lobby the provincial government to increase funding to Post-Secondary Education (PSE). More money from the Province of Ontario means less money from students' pockets.
Do I see this as priority? Yes. If elected, I would spend quite a bit of time focusing on deregulation issues. As would my running mate, Liam McHugh-Russell, candidate for Vice-President, Education.
Sorry for the brief answer. Please look forward to a more detailed response on how I would approach the issue of tuition deregulation, and why. [ Parent ]
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