Facing fall registration and diploma holds, students vote to end Columbia tuition strike columbiaspectator.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from columbiaspectator.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
18 Dec 2020
Students at Columbia University are striking this week to bring attention to their call for a 10 percent tuition decrease. Student activist Townesend Nelson said this week that the university is “vampirically sucking every drop of blood” from the “lifeless corpses” of enrolled students. Students participating in the strike have refused to pay their tuition bills for the spring semester.
According to a report by Campus Reform, students at Columbia University are striking in response to a list of alleged grievances against the’s university administration. Students are calling on administrators to drop the cost of tuition by 10 percent and increase financial aid grants by 10 percent. Annual tuition for enrolled undergraduates at the university costs $58,920.