Amicus Brief on COVID-19’s Financial Impact on Colleges and Universities

AGB joined the higher education community in filing an amicus brief to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of in support of New York University in Christina Rynasko v. New York University. The case is one of the over 300 tuition refund class actions that the plaintiffs’ bar has filed against colleges and universities based on a false narrative that the unforeseen and immediate pivot to largely online operations caused by COVID-19 was somehow a financial windfall to institutions. This amicus brief explains the financial impact of the pandemic to higher education institutions.