MUN to pay tuition refunds to some students for time lost during faculty strike
The university will pay out more than $3 million
Memorial University will provide more than $3 million in tuition back to students for time lost as a result of a strike by the faculty association, according to the university's official news site, Gazette.
The university said it recognizes the nearly two-week strike was challenging for students, most of whom had their classes cancelled over that period. A new collective agreement between MUN and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty Association was reached and ratified in February.
According to the Gazette's post, the university will first provide payment to undergraduate students, which will be dispersed at the end of the current semester. The payment will be based on a student's impacted course load, credit hours and tuition rate, according to the Gazette.
MUN also announced it will provide a rebate to graduate students, but added the refunds won't apply to technical and diploma students at Marine Institute or students in MUN's faculty of medicine, because their course work continued during the strike.
The university previously announced students will also receive a 100 per cent tuition refund for any course dropped before April 10, including courses that were suspended and have since resumed.