There are a lot of feelings involved when a university announces its imminent closure; even more so when faculty, staff and students hear the news through the media rather than a direct announcement from school leadership, and exponentially more so when the news leaks a week before the closure is set to go into effect.
Lawsuits are the end result of those feelings: anger at being allegedly misled by university leadership, fear about finding a new educational home, worry about all the money sunk into a failing institution. Philadelphia’s University of the Arts is one example of such a case, with four suits filed by four separate plaintiffs firms rolling in within two weeks of the school’s closure date.
