Rasmussen Colleges: Giving students partial refunds on tuition

Transitioning to online courses rather than continuing to facilitate them in person diminishes the quality of education students receive. Students will not have the same face-to-face interactions with our professors and peers in the intimate class settings. Moreover, many majors are not designed for virtual or online learning, and forcing them to switch to remote, virtual, or online forms of learning will be ineffective in allowing students to fully immerse themselves in what they’re learning, take advantage of resources, or have access to proper equipment. While we understand the difficult position that the pandemic has put on Rasmussen Colleges and Universities, this suspension of face-to-face instruction and suspension of access to labs, simulations and other on-campus resources presents a notable reduction in the quality of our education that we as students expected to receive at this institution. Because of this huge financial, personal, and professional loss, the students demand that our technology fee, clinical fee, and class fees be reduced and that our tuition be pro-rated or reduced, specifically funds that contribute to maintaining on-campus resources. As students, we are suffering.

Thank you for your time,
The Students of Rasmussen College