More than 16,000 University of Maine students are getting partial refunds of tuition and fees as part of a $2.15 million settlement of a lawsuit over online learning during the pandemic.
The Portland Press Herald reports students enrolled in the university system in the spring 2020 are eligible for various payments, depending on the campus they attended and the amount of tuition or fees they paid.
The class-action lawsuit claimed the school breached its contract with students when classes they had paid for were moved online because of the pandemic.
The university is not admitting to fault, saying the move to online classes was necessary in order to comply with government orders.
