They are paying another $ 7 million to the states themselves in litigation and investigation costs, and the
class action attorneys are finally getting paid
as well, collecting $ 8 million from Penguin, plus additional
administration costs.
Increasingly, however, such dreams are turning to
action — most notably in the case of the shocking May 2015 walkout of the University of Southern California's MFA
class of 2016 (now known
as the USC Seven), who left the program
as a group while issuing collectively signed communiqués about their grievances with school
administration over cuts in promised funding, treatment of tenured faculty and, perhaps most important, the very direction of the school's plans to emphasize already well - funded tech and design education over fine art.