Yes.
At my nephew’s college, they’re giving a partial refund if you completely check out of the dorm now. Only three weeks left, so he has the option to commute. Inconvenient, yes, but doable.
To date, quality/effectiveness of education hasn’t been very important to those paying tuition.
Maybe this will be a good catalyst.
This will be a big issue going forward, and I bet the government gets involved, generously.
I’d like to point out that the prorated cost—amount of term used/not used—isn’t the entire cost to the payor or the student. Credits are granted for completion of courses, usually upon the demonstration of some competence, such as grading on an exam, project, or paper. If a course is interrupted in the middle, how can it be finished? Does it have to be completely retaken? Will working via computer from home provide enough education? It’s going to get complicated, with different answers for different areas of study.
You will lose -force majeure.
In an ideal world these politicians and media members would pay dearly fir the economic nightmare that is about to be unleashed around the globe by this insane panic. But they will just move in to the panic over the worldwide depression they helped create..
No, they are acting prudent, my wife is a teacher, one of her co-workers has the virus, they have closed the school for two weeks. Do you feel they should force the school to expose your child to the virus? Here at TCU I understand they are going to do the rest of the semester all on line.
All the schools I know of are continuing the semester via digital means for at least the next few weeks. So, the tuition dollars continue to pay for what they’re supposed to buy. Fees for room and board seem like another matter.
I don’t think you would win. They are acting in best interest of the public, students, staff. I think this would be supported by the government, medical community, and the court.
It would however be good public relations to give even modest refunds.
Absolutely. I intend to demand that I be fully refunded the tuition, fees, dorm rental, and meal ticket. There is no way that my daughter will get what I paid for this semester.
My grandson was on spring break when notified by Lehigh the semester would be held on line. Aside from the qualitative loss of student interaction and campus life, he has fully paid room and board that the school is now saving. To me that should be proportionally refunded for that cost at least.
My Son is requesting same. $35,000 a semester for on line courses seems way over priced.
College is a leftist scam.
Ping!!!
Trudeau is ignoring this stuff.
Have you read JKyleBass before? Kyle Bass
https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1221065421874397185
Friends are getting a pro-rated refund on their kid’s housing and meal package.
This same university offers online classes routinely anyway, and the cost per credit hour is the same as an in-person class.
This works well for classes such as mathematics, history, writing, and humanities.
It doesn't work at all for lab-based classes such as chemistry. In those cases, special lab hours are set, class sizes are tightly controlled, and the student-to-student contact is minimized in the lab.
You could, but they probably would win citing an “Act Of God” and the fact it wasn’t just their institution that shut down. If they switched to distance-learning and were going business as usual otherwise, that would add to their case.
But if you paid for housing, I think they should refund that as it’s separate from education costs. But that’s just my thinking.
We’ve been doing online classes for over a decade. They are not a new thing.
Most of the respectable colleges seem to be planning on finishing the classes online. But if your are talking about a full shutdown, no, the refund should be full.
There should be a proportionate refund. Kind of like paying in advance for an air flight which is cancelled because of the risk and they would refund your prepayment.If you don’t provide the service, no matter what the reason, you don’t get to keep the prepayment
“...arbitrarily shutting their doors in the past week or so, purportedly as a countermeasure to the coronavirus “pandemic.”
We have many colleges up here that have reacted to the shut down demand by our governor. In some states, this has become the practice...shutting down large assemblies. And it effects the whole country.
The problem goes a lot further than just the colleges. A perfect example is our recreation. Do season ticket holders all over the country for different sports get a refund? Who’s going to pay the stadium or arena reservation. How many people does that effect all the way to the facility ownership to the hot dog venders. Imagine the New York stock exchange or the paying of the border guards. Do you send military, and if so, how do you fund them. And the house isn’t going to suspend the condoms for hookers program to use for that.
We’ve never had a governmental organization take what could be considered martial law in this size, before. It’s going to take years to fix the financial ramifications as no one has the liquid funds to back this move. I hope all you get your refund. But don’t hold your breath, you’ll be past turning blue before it happens. You can’t bleed a turnip. Your money is already spent.
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