Columbia University M.F.A. Students Demand Refunds in Pointed Open Letter

New York’s Columbia University resumed its spring semester classes online this week after the coronavirus forced its campus to close. But graduate students at the school’s Visual Arts Program doubt how much they can learn about painting and sculpting through a webcam.
In a letter sent yesterday, nearly 60 M.F.A. candidates demanded that Columbia administrators refund tuition for studio courses, create an additional free semester for affected students, produce year-end degree exhibiti