(CNN)Sixteen top US universities, including Duke, Vanderbilt and Northwestern, are being sued by five former students claiming those schools may be involved in antitrust violations in the way those institutions worked together in determining financial aid awards for students, according to the lawsuit filed in a US District Court in Illinois.
The complaint, which was filed Sunday, alleges that these private national universities have "participated in a price-fixing cartel that is designed to reduce or eliminate financial aid as a locus of competition, and that in fact has artificially inflated the net price of attendance for students receiving financial aid."
The suit is asking for class-action status to cover any US citizen or permanent resident who paid tuition, room, or board at these institutions within varying timeframes from 2003 to the present. The plaintiffs want a permanent injunction against this alleged conspiracy, and that they are also seeking restitution and damages to be determined in court.
[...] The lawsuit alleges nine schools (Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern, Notre Dame, the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt) have "made admissions decisions with regard to the financial circumstances of students and their families, " thereby disfavoring students who need financial aid."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 15 2022, @06:01PM
Exactly, there are Republucan voters more progressive than some Democrat voters. That's why they have wedge issues, to make politics more emotionally driven which enhances tribal loyalty.
The trend in education to test and punish is very old-school conservative. Oddly it frequently is paired with financial cutbacks and mis-allocations of funds. Teachers get more students and more stringent rules. If students do poorly on tests it has real consequences for teachers. Punishment is necessary at times, but generally conservative policies use punishment as the basis for all 'solutions.'