Daily Bulletin

Tuition fees for 2000-01

(The spring meeting of the board of governors is to be held Tuesday, April 11 -- a week later than the originally scheduled date.)

Fee schedule for the current year

It's being proposed that fees in most programs will go up 2 per cent, the maximum allowed by the Ontario government under the five-year plan it announced two weeks ago. Increases of 7 per cent for undergraduate engineering and computer science, and 10 per cent for optometry and the Master of Accountancy program, were announced earlier this week. The provost also announced a plan to lower the co-op fee, currently $420 a term, to $400.

Here are the exact amounts of fees to be paid by full-time students, starting May 1, as they'll be presented to the committee today by the associate provost (general services and finance):

• Regular AHS, arts, environmental studies, math (except CS) and science: $1,976 per term.
• Co-op AHS, arts, ES, math (except CS) and science: $1,990 per term, plus the co-op fee of $400.
• Architecture: $2,145 per term, plus the co-op fee for students beyond first year.
• Computer science, regular: $2,263 per term.
• Computer science, co-op: $2,277 per term, plus the co-op fee.
• Engineering: $2,471 per term, plus the co-op fee.
• Optometry: $3,026 per term.
• International students: $6,209 per term in most regular programs; $6,223 in most co-op programs; $10,123 per term in engineering and architecture; $10,623 per term in optometry.
• Canadian graduate students: $1,616 per term (except $1,902 in the MAcc program).
• International graduate students: $4,080 per term.

The fee for a single course will be $444 in most fields, $508 in engineering and CS, $510 in the accounting diploma program, $523 in optometry. International students pay $2,025 for a single course in most fields, $975 for a distance education course. Part-time graduate students pay half the fees charged to full-time students.

Students also pay "incidental fees" -- for insurance, athletics, student services and various organizations -- that typically range from $240 to $350 a term.

Today's meeting of the board executive committee will also talk about the report of the "working group on tuition fee guidelines", which presented a preliminary report to the board in February.

Other matters on the committee's agenda include the UW budget for the coming year, property development, and a report from Ontario's provincial auditor about "quality assurance and information for decision-making" at universities.

Library open longer during exams

"Last term at the request of the Federation of Students, Library staff conducted a survey and found that 78% of students surveyed in the Davis Library and 70% of students surveyed in Porter wanted the Library to stay open later," says a memo issued this week. During most of the term, the Dana Porter Library is open until 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and the Davis Centre Library is open one hour later each night. Traditionally, the libraries stay open about an hour longer during the weeks just before and during exams each term.

"Given these results," says the memo, "the Library has made arrangement to stay open longer during the upcoming exam period. From Monday, March 27, until Wednesday, April 19, Davis Library will remain open until 3 a.m. and Porter Library until 2 a.m."

It adds that "in order to ensure the safety of library patrons", UW's security department also has extended hours for the Safe Ride and the Walk Safe programs. The last runs will begin at 2 a.m. nightly.

Talk tonight by Dalton Camp

Bob Needham, director of the Canadian Studies program based at St. Paul's United College, predicted that Camp's lecture would be "controversial". He'll speak under the title "Neo-Conservatism: How to Wreck a Country Without a Hammer (Part II)". The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m.

Camp, now best known as a columnist for the Toronto Star, was president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1964 to 1969) and senior advisor to the federal cabinet (1986-1988). He is the author of four books, the most recent being Whose Country is This Anyway? (1995). Camp can be expected to take a "red Tory" approach critical of the policies now being followed by many political leaders who claim his Progressive Conservative label.

The professorship was launched in 1996 and based at St. Paul's to honour the late Stanley Knowles, who served 41 years as a federal parliamentarian. It includes an annual lecture named after sponsor Robert Kerr, co-founder of Imax Corp., and the late Max Saltsman, who represented Waterloo South in the House of Commons for 15 years.

Last year's lecturer was author Mordecai Richler; former UN ambassador Stephen Lewis spoke two years ago.

As the term races to an end

It's Customer Appreciation Day at the UW Shop, the bookstore and Techworx in South Campus Hall. Customers can save 25 per cent off regular non sale merchandise at the Shop, 40% off Far West merchandise and up to 50% off clearance items. At the bookstore, there are savings on regular priced general books, and at Techworx it's 15 per cent off the price of architecture supplies today.

The computer science department presents a talk this morning (10:30 a.m., Davis Centre room 1302) by Nancy Day of the Pacific Software Research Centre. She'll speak on "A Framework for Multi-notation, Model-oriented Requirements Validation".

There's another student recital at noontime (actually 12:30) in the Conrad Grebel College chapel. Four students -- Jonathan Bowman, Jacinda Burden, Karen Choi and Carrie Schiel -- will play the piano. Admission is free.

On-line aerobics are offered this afternoon, or so the Learning and Teaching Through Technology folks claim. "This presentation," says Liwana Bringelson of LT3, "will be a live demo of multimedia technology that is available via the Internet and desktop computers. The HCI Aerobics class is an opportunity for professionals in human-computer interaction to meet on-line and discuss design ideas. This allows professionals to get a small dose of professional collaboration during the 'edge time' of their jobs. This synchronous event uses RealAudio broadcast from the facilitator, and a shared chat and whiteboard for participants to share their ideas." Anyone interested can see a demonstration at 1 p.m. in room 101 at the distance education office, 156 Columbia Street.

The department of statistics and actuarial science presents a seminar today by Smiley Cheng of the University of Manitoba, who will speak on "the 'Single' Control Charts for the Variables Data" at 3:30 in Math and Computer room 5158.

The religious studies department will hold an end-of-term reception, and present awards to students, at 4:15 this afternoon at the Renison College chapel lounge.

Emma Fedor of Toronto Right to Life will be the guest speaker tonight at a meeting of UW Students for Life (7 p.m., Modern Languages room 117). Her talk is titled "The Empirical Zygote: A Pro-Life Choice in the Modern World". A question period follows.

Montréal architect Phyllis Lambert will speak tonight at the school of architecture, as the Arriscraft Lecture series continues. Her talk begins at 7:00 in the "green room" of Environmental Studies II.

CAR

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