The topic of college tuition has been hotly debated in recent years. More and more people have become aware of how colleges and universities exploit families and reap the financial benefits of skyrocketing tuition. Yet these academic institutions are inexplicably rarely blamed for putting families into significant debt or failing to uphold their end of the bargain in the supposed value of a college education.
And now, in 2024, college administrators and executives showed they would bow down to the demands of people who have no association with colleges, allow these deviants to disrupt school operations, enable them to affect students’ experience negatively, and demand these victims still pay their full tuition. It’s an abhorrent display of the incompetence and abuse of the exploitative power of the elitist intelligentsia who rule academia.
In what should only be described as a breach of contract, the aristocrats of the nation’s colleges prioritized the needs of radical left-wing agitators, many of whom used college campuses as a base of operations for their political activism yet were not even students at the colleges, over their obligations to the students who are forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars in tuition each year. The needs of the many were ignored to address the demands of the few.
This should not be permitted to stand. Those who pay tuition have certain rights. Unquestionably, those who had classes canceled, graduation ceremonies canceled, or any other aspect of the college experience negatively affected due to the choices and decisions of academia’s aristocrats deserve a refund of some portion of tuition. Colleges and universities enabled these deviants to occupy campuses. They should be held accountable for their poor choices and decisions, just as college students are held responsible for them.
A college education is a financial transaction. A consumer pays for a service for which colleges and universities are supposed to provide. Colleges should not be above being held responsible for a failure to uphold the obligations for which they are paid. Any cancellations due to the decisions of school officials who enabled an ideological occupation of their campus, which, in turn, caused disruptions in the lives of paying customers, should be considered a violation of the contract between universities and the families who pay tuition.
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Colleges had every right to decide to prioritize radical agitators and protesters. However, actions have consequences, and for once, colleges and universities should be held accountable for their horrific choices and decision-making.
Parents deserve a refund for whom and what school officials decided to prioritize. They should demand accountability.