{"id":2422132,"date":"2025-04-10T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-demand-answers-from-ivy-league-schools-over-price-fixing-allegations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:58:08","slug":"republicans-demand-answers-from-ivy-league-schools-over-price-fixing-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-demand-answers-from-ivy-league-schools-over-price-fixing-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans demand answers from Ivy League schools over price-fixing allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-demand-answers-from-ivy-league-schools-over-price-fixing-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2422132&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A group of congressional Republicans is scrutinizing Ivy League universities over allegations of price-fixing related to tuition costs. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley,House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan,and other lawmakers have expressed concerns that these practices may violate antitrust laws. In a letter sent to institutions such as Harvard and Yale,they requested documentation dating back to 2019 that discusses pricing coordination among these universities. The move comes <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">amidst rising tuition costs<\/a>, adding to ongoing debates surrounding higher education funding and practices. The request for data is due by April 22, highlighting an increasing congressional interest in regulating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-rosensweig-why-tech-is-the-solution-to-the-student-debt-dilemma\/\" title=\"Can Rosensweig: Why Tech Is the Solution to the Student-Debt Dilemma\">higher education sector<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Congressional Republicans demand answers from Ivy League schools over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-thunes-involvement-tipped-the-scales-in-the-house-budget-fight-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"How Thune&#039;s involvement tipped the scales in the ... budget fight - Washington Examiner\">price-fixing collusion allegations<\/a><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2088435\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"House\">House<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"House\">Senate Republicans<\/a> are demanding answers from Ivy League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/colleges-and-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"House\">institutions<\/a> about alleged price-fixing regarding their tuition costs.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chuck-grassley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Chuck Grassley\">Chuck Grassley<\/a> (R-IA), House Judiciary Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jim-jordan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jim Jordan\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-OH), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), and Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) sent letters to Ivy League universities Tuesday expressing concern over potential antitrust violations and collusion over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unhinged-and-abnormal-fed-warns-of-housing-bubble-as-average-cost-of-new-homes-hits-record-high\/\" title=\"\u2018Unhinged\u2019 And \u2018Abnormal\u2019: Fed Warns Of Housing Bubble As Average Cost Of New Homes Hits Record High\">continued rising cost<\/a> of tuition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3376349\/house-republicans-vote-pass-trump-budget-resolution\/\">House GOP holdouts back down and give Trump budget resolution win<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3376253\/elise-stefanik-house-gop-leadership-committees-return\/\">Elise Stefanik returns to House GOP leadership and committees: &#8216;Honored&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3376135\/brandon-gill-grills-democrat-witness-baltimore-safe-city\/\">Brandon Gill grills Democratic witness defending Baltimore as safe city<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;The House and Senate Committees are concerned that the Ivy League member institutions&rsquo; coordinated practices and alleged collusion violate the Sherman Act and that the institutions continue to benefit from their prior collusion despite no longer having an antitrust exemption,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2025-04-08-jdj-sf-cg-ml-to-brown-paxson-re-production-request.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"letter\">letter<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The structure and operation of the higher education market strongly suggests the market is not functioning properly and is subject to widespread violations of antitrust laws,&rdquo; the letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>The letters sent to the universities of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Yale ask for any documents the schools have dating back to 2019 between them and other institutions and college organizations regarding pricing and similar topics. The congressmen asked the documents to be handed over to the committees by April 22.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/3362792\/tax-reckoning-coming-besieged-universities-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TAX RECKONING COMING FOR BESIEGED UNIVERSITIES AT HANDS OF GOP\">TAX RECKONING COMING FOR BESIEGED UNIVERSITIES AT HANDS OF GOP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High tuition costs for colleges and universities have been a problem in recent years for students seeking higher education. The investigation by the congressional committee heads came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/education\/2024\/10\/10\/college-price-fixing-lawsuit\/75590520007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"months after\">months after<\/a> a lawsuit was filed against the College Board over allegations it overcharged students of divorced or separated parents for tuition at various institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The letters are the latest instance of congressional Republicans<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3366121\/alan-garber-harvard-antisemitism-trump-threatens-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> scrutinizing higher education<\/a>, specifically Ivy League schools, over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/3352439\/trump-administration-funding-upenn-transgender-athlete-policy-lia-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">variety of topics<\/a>, including actions to combat antisemitism, which has spiked on campuses in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2088435\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2088435\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers seek answers from Ivy League schools on tuition collusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2422133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/harvard-university-school-campus.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5609,35136,38379,19699,3756],"class_list":["post-2422132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-allegations","tag-education-policy","tag-ivy-league","tag-price-fixing","tag-republicans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/harvard-university-school-campus.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422137,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422132\/revisions\/2422137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2422133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}