6 higher education lawsuits to watch in 2022 — from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz
We’re keeping an eye on cases including a challenge to affirmative action that could reach the Supreme Court and alleged price fixing by wealthy colleges.
Excerpt:
Several major pending lawsuits have the potential to crumble the pillars of long-standing practices in higher education, including whether colleges can consider race in admissions and whether faith-based institutions can be exempt from a federal sex discrimination law.
Another high-profile case accuses top-ranked colleges of colluding to limit financial aid packages, while still another centers on the messy divorce between Liberty University and its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr.
Also see:
- Top-ranked colleges illegally conspire to limit financial aid offers, lawsuit alleges — from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz
A group of former college students is suing 16 top-ranked private nonprofit universities — including Yale University, Georgetown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — alleging they engaged in a price-fixing scheme that favored wealthy applicants and drove up the price of college.
Those institutions involved in the lawsuit include:
- Northwestern University
- Yale University
- Georgetown University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Brown University
- California Institute of Technology
- University of Chicago
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- Emory University
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rice University
- Vanderbilt University