The University of Chicago agreed to freeze the price of 2020-21 tuition, housing and fees for undergraduates, citing the economic challenges families are facing because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a letter to students signed by Provost Ka Yee Lee and John Boyer, dean of the college.
Some graduate programs will also freeze tuition, said Julia Attie, an organizer for UChicago for Fair Tuition, a student group demanding a 50 percent tuition reduction and fee waiver for the university’s spring quarter. Hundreds of Chicago students have said they will hold out on paying spring quarter tuition past the April 29 deadline in protest.
“The University of Chicago continues to recognize that COVID-19 has brought about a period of acute challenge and uncertainty,” the letter to students said. “The impact on our College community as a whole, as well as the strain placed on students and their families, is profound … The University will continue to do what it can to support its community during this unprecedented time.”
-- Greta Anderson