The entire class of seven first-year MFA students dropped out of the University of Southern California’s arts and design school in protest of faculty and curriculum changes, according to The Huffington Post.

The group of students posted a statement online explaining their decision to withdraw, describing what they called “the University’s unethical treatment of its students.” The statement contains a list of several grievances, including a significant decrease in tuition subsidization.

“[W]e have no idea what MFA faculty we’d be working with for the coming year; we have no idea what the curriculum would be, other than that it will be different from what it was when we enrolled and is currently being implemented by administrators outside of our field of study; and finally, we have no idea whether we’d graduate with twice the amount of debt we thought we would graduate with.”

In the same statement, they also argued that, due to “the effects of the administration’s denigration of our program,” the former MFA program director resigned in December 2014, which soon led to the resignation of tenured professor Frances Stark. The MFA program director position was never filled.

“We each made life-changing decisions to leave jobs and homes in other parts of the country and the world to work with inspiring faculty, and, most of all, have the time and space to grow as artists. . . . Because the University refused to honor its promises to us, we are returning to the workforce degree-less and debt-full.”

In response to the letter, Dean Erica Muhl said in a statement, “I regret that several of our MFA students have stated they will leave the program over issues that were presented to us and that we considered to have been resolved, specifically having to do with financial aid and curriculum. . . . Changes are made to the curriculum on an ongoing basis. Minor changes were made to the MFA curriculum prior to the students’ arrival in fall 2014, mainly involving one elective in the summer of 2015. Studio visits and study tours remain part of the curriculum as the students requested.”