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Post-Residency Fees Petition
Reduced post-residency fees allows graduate students to cope with
focusing on finishing their degress following the completion of their
course work. This practice recognises the reduced resources used by
students in the research and writing phases of their degrees, the
financial barriers faced by students pursuing a graduate
education, and the important role graduate students play in the
University’s research and teaching mission. Financial burdens delay or
reduce completion rates as graduate students seek paid employment and
even drop-out of their studies.
Fee increases have a greater impact on international students, students with disabilities, single parents, women, Aboriginal students, and students from low and modest income backgrounds. Reducing post-residency fees will help to open the doors of graduate studies to qualified students from all backgrounds and income groups and will demonstrate that a university is committed to accessible and equitable graduate education. Reducing post-residency fees will increase retention rates and reduce time-to-completion rates, thereby increasing the research and teaching capacity of the institution and in helping to ensure that Canada produces qualified candidates to address the anticipated faculty shortage. It is for these reasons that signing the pledge below is important.
Sign below to join graduate students, faculty, and alumni across Canada in supporting the call of the National Graduate Caucus of the Canadian Federation of Students to reduce post-residency fees.
As an alumnus,
I shall withhold any donations to my university until such time as the Board of Governors introduces post-residency fees at a maximum rate of 50% of regular tuition fees for all graduate students who have completed their required course work.
Furthermore, I call upon the Board of Governors to actively and publicly lobby to reduce tuition fees for all students, to increase public funding for the province's universities and colleges to at least the national average and to restore federal cash transfers for post-secondary education.
Fee increases have a greater impact on international students, students with disabilities, single parents, women, Aboriginal students, and students from low and modest income backgrounds. Reducing post-residency fees will help to open the doors of graduate studies to qualified students from all backgrounds and income groups and will demonstrate that a university is committed to accessible and equitable graduate education. Reducing post-residency fees will increase retention rates and reduce time-to-completion rates, thereby increasing the research and teaching capacity of the institution and in helping to ensure that Canada produces qualified candidates to address the anticipated faculty shortage. It is for these reasons that signing the pledge below is important.
Sign below to join graduate students, faculty, and alumni across Canada in supporting the call of the National Graduate Caucus of the Canadian Federation of Students to reduce post-residency fees.
As an alumnus,
I shall withhold any donations to my university until such time as the Board of Governors introduces post-residency fees at a maximum rate of 50% of regular tuition fees for all graduate students who have completed their required course work.
Furthermore, I call upon the Board of Governors to actively and publicly lobby to reduce tuition fees for all students, to increase public funding for the province's universities and colleges to at least the national average and to restore federal cash transfers for post-secondary education.
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