Universities with regulated tuition have a long history of charging extra fees, saying they are not tuition. But, of course, it is tuition, and it can be illegal. This story describes how lawyer Bob Herman successfully sued the University of Missouri for illegally charging tuition for 15 years, leading to a court decision this month could lead to as much as $500 million in refunds. I have a strong sympathy for such cases. In 1991 I and a group of graduate students took the University of Alberta to court for exactly the same infraction, leading to almost a million dollars in fee repayments. I handed many of the refund cheques out personally, something that to this day gives me great satisfaction.
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