(CNN) This month, New York University, like many colleges and universities across the country, announced it would transfer to remote classes as the coronavirus epidemic spreads.

For students at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, though, the situation presented a challenge. Without performance and rehearsal space, voice lessons and other necessary aspects of art school, could students really get the education they had expected?

Senior drama student Emma Hoersdig -- who has been doing scenes over Zoom, where she says there's "still a disconnect" -- put it this way to CNN: "It isn't the education we paid for."

While there will be prorated refunds for housing and dining for students living in dorms, Hoersdig and other students have called for some sort of tuition reimbursement for the spring 2020 term.

After conversations among peers, Hoersdig started a Facebook advocating for reimbursement, and it's garnered more than 800 members. More than 3,000 have signed an online Change.org petition , too.

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