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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Lawsuit over certain UC fees during coronavirus crisis

According to AP, a lawsuit has been filed against UC and CSU regarding certain supplementary student fees - not basic tuition - on the grounds that the services that would normally be provided by such fees are not available or are of reduced quality or utility:

...“The effect of CSU’s COVID-19-related protocols and messaging is that all students have effectively been forced to leave campus, unless they truly had no other safe place to go,” the Los Angeles suit said. “For students who do remain on campus, services are now extremely limited. For students who do not live on campus, there is no reason to come to campus, since all activities have been cancelled.” ...The fees ranged from around $850 to more than $4,000 for CSU students for the 2019-2020 academic year while the UC basic student services fee was around $1,100, while fees related to specific campuses doubled that or more, according to the lawsuits...

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