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USF emails show secret pandemic fee scheme, lawsuit claims - Open Campus

Summary by opencampus.org
After a 2023 audit showed the University of South Florida overcharged students nearly $8.6 million in “distance learning” fees during the COVID-19 pandemic, USF denied wrongdoing. But newly released emails and meeting notes, uncovered in an ongoing lawsuit and disclosed in a recent court filing, allege that university officials intentionally raised those fees to secretly recoup revenue from other waived charges. The emails also show internal dis…
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opencampus.org broke the news in on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
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