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More than 1,000 students at Columbia University refused to pay tuition this semester, striking against the university's refusal to lower its fees in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced thousands of students to take online classes and limit the use of campus facilities.
Students are demanding the university, a private Ivy League school located in New York City, slash tuition by at least 10% and increase financial aid to offset the financial burdens the pandemic has created.
I'm actually on the students' side on this one. They're not receiving the entire educational experience that they're paying for, so they should get a discount. Granted, I can understand the university's point of view as well. Their expenses probably haven't gone down much; they still have to pay the mortgage and the utilities on all those buildings that aren't being used. But that's not the students' fault.
The students should boycott colleges for an entire year. Pay nothing. No online classes. Zero participation including but not limited to sports participation and / or game attendance, fraternities, sororities, clubs, meetings and the like.
Nothing that would support or contribute financially in any way, shape, or form to the renumeration of the colleges and university staff, physical plant, including donations from every alumni still alive.
After they all have received rebates plus interest then and only after all monies are received, think about and carefully consider and re-evaluate actually what higher education actually buys a student in these trying times.
More than 1,000 students at Columbia University refused to pay tuition this semester, striking against the university's refusal to lower its fees in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced thousands of students to take online classes and limit the use of campus facilities.
Students are demanding the university, a private Ivy League school located in New York City, slash tuition by at least 10% and increase financial aid to offset the financial burdens the pandemic has created.
Can't be on campus to use the facilities, but still have to pay student activities fees!
My alma mater, Syracuse, lost $35 million in revenue due to covid, but was able to come up with $50 to renovate the Schine Student Center, and rebuild it during the pandemic.
The cost of university is the problem, bloated budgets, overpaid coddled professors, etc. Canceling debt is not the answer, cutting the cost of is.
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