(CAMPUS REFORM) – Citing “glaring inequities,” students at New York University are refusing to pay tuition in the fall.
A press release from the New York University Young Democratic Socialists of America asks their peers to refrain from completing tuition payments for the fall semester and from giving the school donations upon graduation.
“We’re going on tuition strike to take back control of our university and its policies,” NYU YDSA member Joe Whitcomb explained in the press release. ”We have no power beyond the fact that the tuition we pay the school allows it to continue operating the way it does. Thus, in order to protect our students from the police, shield them from a predatory financial burden, and reign in our school’s abuses both at home and abroad, we need to withhold that tuition until our demands for a freer and more just university are met.”
