'I'm not saying that it's their fault,' one student said. 'But I feel they should refund some of the money, because I feel like I'm not getting what I paid for.'
The president of Brown University said reopening colleges and universities should be a"national priority" and many students are reconsidering their plans for college.Grainger Rickenbaker was more than halfway through his freshman year at Drexel University in Philadelphia when theforced the school to clear its dormitories and suspend in-person instruction indefinitely.
Drexel administrators informed students last month they wouldn't be on the hook for housing bills or meal plans while the campus was closed. But there would be no discounts to normal tuition rates, the university said, despite the shift to e-learning, which is ordinarily offered to undergraduates at up to 40 percent less per credit, according to rates posted on the school website.
"The university's economic challenges are no different and no more important than anyone else's," said Kelly Gibson, whose son attends Arizona State University and is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the school."They have no right to keep money for services they are no longer providing." "Are you a college student who was forced to leave campus?" reads a banner on the site's homepage. "You may be entitled to compensation."
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