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From: Stephanie Goodwin <sgoodwin@chat.carleton.ca>
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<cusa_dx@carleton.ca>; <cusa_vpi@carleton.ca>; <cusa_dos@carleton.ca>;
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Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 3:22 PM
Subject: graduation for seniors
> MOCK GRADUATION FOR SENIORS!
> MEDIA EVENT
> TUESDAY MAY 23RD @ 1PM
> BEHIND ROBERTSON HALL, CARLETON UNIVERSITY
>
> please pass this along to any listserves or interested parties. thanks.
>
> You are all cordially invited to show the Carleton University
> administration that you value the past and future contribution of seniors
> at our university on May 23rd. The students' associations will be
presenting
> senior students with an honourary degree to make up for the degree seniors
> will no longer be able to afford. The media will be attending this event
> so bring all the support you can muster.
>
>
> Before May 1st, 2000, senior students (60+ yrs of age) paid $5 for each
> course in which they enrolled at Carleton University. The Board of
> Governors has implemented a tuition scheme so that beginning the 2001/02
> academic year senior students will be paying 80% of the full tuition fees
> (over 1000% increase). The Carleton University Students' Association and
> Graduate Students' Association believe that this implementation needs to
> be reversed.
>
> The University has insisted that the issue is not finances but one of
> equity, where all students pay a uniform fee regardless of age. However,
> equity is ensuring that there is equal access and opportunity for all
> students. Seniors for the most part cannot access loans and if they do,
> their ability to repay is diminished since their employment and financial
> potential is not equal to that of younger students. Therefore, seniors
> being in the lowest income group of citizens and unable to access or repay
> loans, the idea of seniors paying more than $3000 for tuition per year is
> ludicrous.
>
>
> sincerely,
> stephanie goodwin
> director of educational affairs
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Stephanie Goodwin
> Carleton University
>
> Email address: sgoodwin@chat.carleton.ca
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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