{"id":1382,"date":"2016-09-20T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2016-09-21T16:43:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T16:43:40","slug":"we-want-to-send-a-quick-strong-message-intl-student-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2016\/09\/20\/we-want-to-send-a-quick-strong-message-intl-student-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"We want to send a quick, strong message (intl student fees)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1383 size-medium colorbox-1382\" src=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fall2016statement_intlfee-232x300.png\" alt=\"fall2016statement_intlfee\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fall2016statement_intlfee-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fall2016statement_intlfee-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fall2016statement_intlfee-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fall2016statement_intlfee.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>Some international students have noticed that Columbia still appears to be charging us for the \u201cInternational Services Fee,\u201d even though <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Provost-Enhancements-to-PhD-Benefits-20160509.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Provost Coatsworth<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DeanBoyceAnnoucement-of-PhD-Student-Benefit-Enhancements-20160509.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Dean of Engineering Boyce<\/a><\/strong> told us in May that this fee would be \u201ccovered\u201d as of Fall 2016 for fully-funded doctoral students.<\/p>\n<p>We assume this is another error or oversight on the part of the University. Let&#8217;s send a quick, strong message to Columbia to address the problem, so that hundreds of us do not have to inquire individually and waste precious time away from our work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfjV-JYec6f5LRosxxqXRhz0RZ8rw3qUk0R-MC_lKk7lvnhkA\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>If you want to show your support, sign here to tell Columbia to keep its promise to waive the international student fee.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We will keep you posted if we learn more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Come to our CUMC Town Hall on Thursday, September 22nd, 6-8PM in Hammer Health Sciences Building Room 305.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking a moment to help,<br \/>\nGWC-UAW International Student Working Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some international students have noticed that Columbia still appears to be charging us for the \u201cInternational Services Fee,\u201d even though Provost Coatsworth and Dean of Engineering Boyce told us in May that this fee would be \u201ccovered\u201d as of Fall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/fall2016intlphdfees_website.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}