C.E.S. and UPEI Student Union call for tuition freeze

Recommendations made to Inter-Provincial Commission

Canadian Federation of Students - PEI

: Y and the UPEI Student Union to the WY Tultion Fees

A canadian Federation of Stutogs vp, | LUition Fees at U.P.E.I., 1980-94 Savas

Maritime Provinces Higher Education Com- mission (MPHEC) called for tuition fees at

U.P.E.I. and Holland College to be frozen at 2600 5 their present levels unless significant increases 2500 - are made in student aid. The submission, enti- 2400 + tled *‘Post-Secondary Education in Prince 2300 4 Edward Island: Declining Access’’, was pre- 200 - sented to the Finance Committee of the com- 2100-4

mission by UPEI Student Union President Todd

King on October 15. It also called for immedi- mere : : : 3 1900 - ate increases in student financial assistance and an end to frozen government education funding. bonnet The Maritime Provinces Higher Education 1M Commission makes recommendations to the 1600 - a three maritime provinces on the funding and 1800 - structure of post-secondary education. The 1400 - MPHEC, which is based in Fredericton, recom- . 1300 - aa 1200 ...the average unemployment 1100. —Y rate for full-time returning 1000 + Yy 7

Uy YU students combined in the Atlantic 900+ _ ; region was 25.4%" ~ LL 1900-8181-82 82-89 89-84 84-95 95-96 96-97 87-98 86-90 09-90 90-91 91-02 92-98 99-04

mended last year that funding to universities

and colleges be increased and tuition not be | U.P.E.I. Tuition Fees 1983/1984 - 1992/1993 (for a full-time student taking a

increased by more than 5%. In UPEI’s case | fy}] course load of 30 semester hours)

funding was frozen for another year and tuition f ; Academic Year

increased by 9.21%. The submission goes.on to Tuition Fees Percentage Increase

ee that the si ee oe 1983/1984 $1200 7.14% or fu |-time returning stu ents com ine: Hine ie 1984/1985 $1270 5 83% Atlant i 25.4% (PEI dered too male ee See ee Cates 1985/1986 $1350 6.30% separate student unemployment figures over 1986/1987 $1480 9.63% _ Ta also contained figures for 1987/1988 $1560 5.41% UPEI tuition increases which are contrasted 1988/ 1989 $1640 5.13% against the lack of any real increase in the 1989/1990 $1720 4.88% maximum personal amount available to stu- 1990/1991 $1840 6.98% dents through the Canada Student Loans in a 1991/1992 $2120 15.22% d i ® pees Lo at Be eS 1992/1993 $2280 7.55% The CFS-PEI/UPEISU submission is publicly 1993/1994 $2490 9.21%

available through the UPEI Student Union Of- fice or through the Canadian Federation of Students PEI Component.

BRUCE DAVISON

Cumulative increase 1983/84-1993/1994: 83.28%

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