Angry Undergrads Are Suing Colleges for Billions in Refunds
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College students, kicked off campus by the coronavirus, have a new extracurricular activity: litigation.
U.S. undergraduates have sued more than 50 schools, demanding partial tuition, room-and-board and fee refunds after they shut down.
The proliferating breach-of-contract suits, many of them filed over the last week, target some of the biggest names in higher education: state systems including theUniversity of California and Arizona State, as well as private institutions such as Columbia, Cornell and New York University.
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