The Columbia University student strike is about far more than tuition | Indigo Olivier

Rather than waiting for the adults in the room to relieve our debt burden, students are taking matters into their own hands

At the start of the spring 2021 semester, students at Columbia University said enough is enough. With the highest tuition in the country, the university is contributing, in no small part, to the ballooning $1.7tn student debt crisis which now affects more than 45 million Americans and leaves graduates, on average, entering the world $30,000 in the red.

Coming across the strike you may have been led to believe that some students at Columbia, who have been engaged in distanced learning since mid-March, feel they are being overcharged for virtual classes and decided to do something about it. That would be a glaring oversight.