February 14, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University will pay $4.8 million to settle claims that it should have refunded tuition and fees to students whose classes were moved online at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a proposed class action settlement submitted to a Pittsburgh federal court for preliminary approval Friday.
June 28, 2021
Carnegie Mellon University's course catalog listing the times, classrooms and professors for each class were part of the university's promise that education would take place in-person and on-campus — a promise broken when courses shifted online due to the pandemic, counsel for students seeking refunds told a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday.
June 02, 2021
Students at Carnegie Mellon University told a Pittsburgh federal court that more than a handful of written agreements governed the school's alleged obligations to provide in-person instruction, as they sought to avoid dismissal of a proposed class action over a switch to online classes during the coronavirus pandemic.
May 18, 2020
A student at Carnegie Mellon University says the school's online learning options during the COVID-19 pandemic aren't worth the tuition she and others have paid, and she has filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Pennsylvania federal court seeking a refund.