Lawsuit Takes Aim at Wheaton College’s Billing Practices for Study Abroad – New York Times

Lawsuit Takes Aim at Wheaton College’s Billing Practices for Study Abroad – New York Times: “NORTON, Mass. — A month after graduating from Wheaton College, Jennifer Bombasaro-Brady was back on campus urging the student government to ask the state attorney general to investigate the college’s billing practices for students studying abroad. . . .

“A college’s fixed costs do not go down when students leave for a semester, and some institutions have many empty beds during the spring semester, the most popular study-abroad time. A few colleges, including Middlebury, admit first-year students midyear to help fill those beds. But Middlebury does not charge full tuition for those who leave campus.

” “We have parents pay the study-abroad programs directly, so they pay the cost of the program they choose,’ said Jeffrey Cason, Middlebury’s dean of international programs.”