{"id":2236958,"date":"2024-05-03T22:46:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T02:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-universities-are-now-getting-hit-with-yet-another-problem-furious-parents\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T22:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T02:52:37","slug":"elite-universities-are-now-getting-hit-with-yet-another-problem-furious-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-universities-are-now-getting-hit-with-yet-another-problem-furious-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Universities Face New Challenge: Angry Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felite-universities-are-now-getting-hit-with-yet-another-problem-furious-parents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2236958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>### Summary of Search\u2063 Results:<\/p>\n<p>#### 1. Parents Protesting Colleges&#8217; Reactions to \u2063Campus Tensions:<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated parents are pushing back against universities&#8217; responses\u2062 to Gaza protests, leading to demands for refunds and a reconsideration of support.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: [Newsmax](https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/us\/colleges-protests-parents\/2024\/05\/03\/id\/1163365\/), [Washington Examiner](https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/2989843\/parents-try-get-tuition-refunds-threaten-pull-donations-backlash-anti-israel-protests\/)<\/p>\n<p>####\u200d 2. Waubonsee \u2062Community College Student Handbook 2023-2024:<\/p>\n<p>Waubonsee Community College \u2062emphasizes exceptional and accessible \u2063education in its handbook, aiming to enrich student experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u2062 [Waubonsee Community College](https:\/\/www.waubonsee.edu\/media\/2497)<\/p>\n<p>#### 3. Parents\u200c Seeking Tuition Refunds and Threatening\u200c Withdrawal:<\/p>\n<p>Parents express\u2062 discontent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fortress-australia-lowers-drawbridge-to-the-world-reopens-after-two-year-isolation\/\" title=\"Fortress Australia Lowers Drawbridge to the World: Reopens After Two-Year Isolation\">seeking refunds<\/a> and withdrawing support due to disturbances on\u200c campuses, impacting students&#8217;\u2062 educational experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: \u200d [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/01\/business\/college-protests-fall-enrollment\/index.html), [Fox News](https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/parents-students-livid-colleges-remote-learning-anti-israel-violence), [Western Journal](https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/)<\/p>\n<p>These search results \u200dhighlight parental concerns and reactions to various issues impacting educational institutions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/%20\"><span>Jack Davis<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 3, 2024 at 5:38pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>For $90,000 a year, parents of some elite school students expected more than hate.<\/p>\n<p>A report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/education\/college-protests-parents-angry-e93bb2ef?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> says some parents are calling for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-college-to-pay-millions-to-settle-lawsuit-over-shutting-down-in-person-classes\/\" title=\"Top college settles lawsuit over ending in-person classes, pays millions.\">tuition refunds<\/a> and rethinking future enrollments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not getting the education they expected and paid for,\u201d Zev Gewurz, a Boston real-estate lawyer whose daughter is a senior at New York City\u2019s Barnard College. Barnard was founded as a women\u2019s college adjacent to Columbia University. The <a href=\"https:\/\/barnard.edu\/finaid\/cost-of-attendance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost of attendance<\/a> at Barnard tops $90,000<\/p>\n<p>Gewurz said Barnard gave an \u201cinadequate response\u201d to hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to tell her that this is not her fault, and that she is living in a moment in history and needs to keep her head high,\u201d he told the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Debra Lynn Eden, whose daughter is a junior at Princeton, complained, \u201cIt\u2019s all a giant distraction to the students who are trying to complete their studies in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-dungy-told-his-super-bowl-team-to-go-out-and-party-before-the-game\/\" title=\"Tony Dungy Told His Super Bowl Team To Go Out and Party Before the Game\">high-stress environment<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education, which helps students complete applications, said parents of Columbia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-absolute-chaos-erupts-police-take-anti-israel-ucla-encampment-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of California \u2013 Los Angeles<\/a> students are calling for refunds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysically blocking their child from attending class or a lecture hall is 100 percent not what they signed up for,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are beyond upset at what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had so many parents emailing, calling, asking me what they can do,\u201d Rim told the London <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/us-colleges-face-their-next-big-challenge-furious-parents-t333t6stf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should colleges have been quicker to end anti-Israel encampments?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been protests, encampments and physical violence that has interrupted their education and they\u2019re not happy. Fees at these sorts of schools are phenomenally high; parents want to feel like they are getting what they pay for and right now they don\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of a commencement also galls parents.<\/p>\n<p>Lana Shami\u2019s daughter will graduate from the University of Southern California without a ceremony due to protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no celebration at the university where we paid an exorbitant amount of tuition for the past four years. It\u2019s a huge letdown,\u201d Shami said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the experience that my freshman daughter should be having, that any of the students of any year should be having,\u201d Amy Gallatin, whose daughter attends Barnard, said, according to  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/parents-students-livid-colleges-remote-learning-anti-israel-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gallatin said her daughter took a final exam Tuesday as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nfl-owner-cuts-funding-columbia-university-anti-israel-protests-no-longer-institution-recognize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protests<\/a> were raging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter is also frustrated [and] understandably so,\u201d she said. \u201cShe had a final exam yesterday at 6 o\u2019clock that she was taking from her dorm only to have the protesters on the street banging and clanging and chanting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearing chants interpreted as seeking the death of Jews was \u201ca very unsettling experience,\u201d Gallatin said, and \u201cwalking through all of those people is a scary thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/01\/business\/college-protests-fall-enrollment\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> reported that one Jewish high school senior, whose name was not used, ditched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ilhan-omars-daughter-whines-losing-privileges-90k-college-arrested-anti-israel-encampment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnard<\/a> due to the protests.<\/p>\n<p>The student chose Brandeis University in Massachusetts, in part due to its A rating from an Anti-Defamation League list of colleges that ranked their support for Jewish students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarnard was my top choice. I was so dead set on going,\u201d the student said. \u201cBut after seeing what is happening on campuses, I feel so glad I am going to Brandeis. I feel really happy and safe knowing they got an A.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. The 2024 election is the single most important election of our lifetime. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We here at The Western Journal are committed to covering it in a way the establishment media simply will not: We will tell the truth, and they will lie.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech and the elites don\u2019t want the truth out. That\u2019s why they have cut us off from 90% of advertisers. Imagine if someone cut your monthly income by 90%. 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Together, we really can save the country.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Thank you for your support!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Please stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44685\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44685\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44685\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44685\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44685\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues. <br \/> Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com. <\/p>\n<p>  Location <\/p>\n<p>  New York City <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  Politics, Foreign Policy, Military &#038; Defense Issues <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, parents of elite school students paying $90,000 annually express dissatisfaction and demand tuition refunds due to unmet educational expectations. 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