TRU s annual budgets are conducted amid a "culture of fear," student union representatives accused Friday. Dustin McIntyre, president of Thompson Rivers University . . .
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It may only be $70 or so a year, but a tuition increase approved by TRU s board Thursday adds one more brick to the already heavy load students carry, says the school s student union.
Nathan Lane, the executive director of the Thompson Rivers University Student Union local 15, said he thinks the board of governors made the wrong choice approving a two-per-cent across-the-board tuition increase. We need a tuition freeze and a rollback, Lane said. We think this is the wrong direction for institutions to be heading.
The board approved the increase largely to fund higher costs related to the progression of staff through previously negotiated wage grids.