CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Just weeks into the new semester, fall reopening plans at UNC-Chapel Hill have gone south.

"Feeling an array of emotions. Been feeling angry, concerned, been feeling sad,” junior Maya Logan says.

She's the vice chair of the Commission on Campus Equality and Student Equity. The group raised thousands of dollars to help students whose lives have been upended.

“Some students are needing help with just a night of a room so they can travel back home," Logan says. "They’re out of state and having to pickup their things in one week."

Logan's been reviewing applications for aid and some of what she’s reading breaks her heart.

“Some students are submitting requests for a simple $100 to their rent so they can start strongly in their new location. Some students are just asking for money for meal assistance," Logan says.

Finances are on the forefront of the minds of students like Seth Wiggins. The freshman says he can’t afford to move back home because it decreases his cost of attendance and in turn, his financial aid.

“I looked at the numbers the other day. Depending on how much they reduce it, I would’ve had to pay at anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000," the Goldsboro resident says.

An unaffordable number that had Wiggins contemplating dropping out and going to a community college, until he was approved for a housing hardship waiver to remain on campus.

"They kind of pushed us out without really letting us know what was happening at first," Wiggins says. 

It's a feeling shared by others in the student body.

"Students need to be on the forefront of this conversation and not invited after the conversation is done," Logan says.

The university has offered students in need a stipend to help with moving costs.