September 3, 2004

U. of Massachusetts Told to Drop Fee

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst must stop charging a $65-per-semester fee to international students, an arbitrator has ruled. He agreed with the university's graduate-student union that the fee is discriminatory.

UMass officials created the fee late last year to cover some costs of the international-programs office, including those associated with the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or Sevis, a federal database that colleges are required to use to track

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