WECT Investigates update: Parent gets partial refund after college suspends courses due to COVID-19
College student receives partial refund for canceled classes By Ann McAdams | December 22, 2020 at 2:08 PM EST - Updated December 23 at 4:45 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Parent Susan Huggins said it was insulting. Miller-Motte College indefinitely suspended its massage therapy program this year due to COVID-19, when her daughter was just six weeks shy of graduation. The $12,000 tuition Huggins had borrowed for the 10-month course was already paid, and the school wasnât offering refunds.
âThey grandfathered in a couple of people who were maybe. two credit hours away, they did let those people graduate. But for those of us that were within that six week window, they said thereâs nothing they could do, it was due to COVID and it wasnât their fault,â Huggins said.