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Staff are seeking two months of pay, healthcare coverage, and damages after the Philadelphia arts school abruptly announced its closure.
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Staff are seeking two months of pay, healthcare coverage, and damages after the Philadelphia arts school abruptly announced its closure.
Many are accusing the school's leadership of giving a "middle finger to everyone."
The urgent calls and emails to Point Park University started within hours of the abrupt announcement that a venerable arts campus in Philadelphia would close within a week, leaving hundreds of students suddenly without fall college plans. University of the Arts, dating to the 1870s, had become the latest small
Kerry Walk stepped down less than four days after the Philadelphia institution abruptly announced it would shutter within a week.
These developments came just four days after Walk, who had been president of UArts for less than a year, announced the school would close June 7.