Posted on 05/24/2020 6:42:42 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A student’s father has brought a class-action lawsuit against Rutgers University, seeking refunds for tuition, fees and room and board after the school moved classes online to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
The suit, filed May 20 in Middlesex County Superior Court, accuses the university of breach of contract, unjust enrichment and conversion for “continuing to reap the financial benefit of millions of dollars from students."...The suit was filed by a man identified only as John Doe, the father of a student enrolled at Rutgers during the spring 2020 semester. It claims the student missed opportunities to view videos or listen to recorded lectures because professors sometimes sent links incompatible with her computer. Instead, she had to rely on lecture slides with bullet points as a substitute for the classroom experience.
As students left campus, they also lost use of university resources, like the library, health facility and certain technology, the claim states.
In March, Rutgers announced it would give students prorated refunds for room and board...
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Actually 15K a year is not terrible. Never mind it’s practically free to go on campus. 15K. So they are charging same amount. I had no idea Rutger’s was so cheap.
Reminds me of a scene from High Plains Drifter where some of the town people especially don’t like having their stuff “acquired” by the High Plains Drifter.
— “everyone’s got to put something in the kiddie”
With people out of jobs and businesses going under I suspect the universities thought they would just keep getting paid even though online is not the same as in-person and their costs are less.
$15,000/year for in-state tuition alone. Add in room and board, and the price is doubled.
Sounds like this student was living on campus.
For a Rutgers education?
You can learn shapes and colors on youtube if you're persistant enough. That'd make you Magna Cum Laude most years in New Brunswick.
I hope the guy wins. The student paid for classes at the campus, not sitting at home in front of a computer. What good is a campus for if everything is done online? The campus is suddenly worthless for nothing but sports, and even those are cancelled. I could give you a complete course on Fungi online but you can’t ask questions, at least not ones answered such that the class can hear and learn from. And what about lab courses? You cannot mix a .23 molar solution of anything online. There is more to a college education than sitting in front of a computer getting carpal tunnel syndrome.
Libraries, in class professors instructing, yeah,yeah, right-—and lost toga parties and beer kegs. Can’t experience that virtually on a computer screen.
LOL. I'm so old that we never "viewed videos" in lieu of a teacher actually teaching us something. Maybe once or twice a year the teacher would roll in a huge Bell & Howell projector and we'd watch some special movie. Even then the geeks would love getting it properly threaded and working. I couldn't tell you what a single one of the few movies we watched was about or what we learned. I suspect most kids who went home have watched LOTS of videos -- just not school-related.
Yup, that’s cheap. Compared to my Stanford tuition in 08 senior year, that’s a bargain. That’s also close to my B school online class as well, which I’m too lazy to finish..
Lol. I always thought it was elite. But what do I know.....not much.
No matter. I’m sure everyone will graduate or move on to their next year, regardless of any results or lack thereof. An actual education is immaterial.
kitty (n.2) "pool of money in a card game," 1884, American English, of uncertain origin. OED connects it with kit (n.1) in the 19c. sense of "collection of necessary supplies;" but perhaps it is rather from northern England slang kitty "prison, jail, lock-up" (1825), a word itself of uncertain origin.
Regards,
“And so it begins, the overdue but inevitable reform of our university system.”
If the Harvard and Yale Schools of Government were burned to the ground it would be a net positive for America.
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$15K per year for in-state tuition surely makes Rutgers one of the most expensive public universities in the country. New Jersey has had a reputation for expensive schools like this for years. When I was in high school there were a lot of kids who got a better deal paying out-of-state tuition in neighboring states than they’d pay as NJ residents in NJ state schools.
Don’t send your kids to college, folks. There are plenty of other paths to success like certifications or trade schools.
JoMa
I imagine private outfits that have been doing remote learning for years are doing better at it than standard colleges trying to transition into it.
Then again, I think I’d miss the interplay of ideas in a classroom setting.
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