IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO WIN, but this is a bad look for higher ed. GWU And NYU Beat Student COVID-19 Tuition Refund Lawsuits. The essence of their win was that they never “expressly promised” in-person classes of the sort they had offered consistently every semester since the beginning of time.

As I explain to my students, courts, as the most academic branch of government, tend to be especially friendly and deferential to academic institutions.