Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNTIL now, university managers have crafted the strongest defense for a tangential element of the Justice investigation. They say the practice--particularly among an "overlap" group of 23 elite Northeastern colleges that includes Harvard--of sharing applicants' financial aid data serves the public by preventing "unethical bidding wars" for top students...
...fact that tuition, room, board and fees for seven of the eight Ivy League schools fall within a 2 percent range of each other. Further, a group of northeastern schools annually cite each others' price raises to justify pushing their own fees into the $19,000-range, far in excess of inflation. Finally, some of the schools admit to sharing the range of their tuition increases with each other well in advance of public notification...
...words of one critic in August, "This is the arrogance of an elite which is absolutely certain it knows what is best for everbody." In lay terms, there is further justified cause for concern any time a group of 23 elite Northeastern colleges--or about 60 colleges nationwide--get together to set prices for one thing they define as "education...
...violated the Anti-Trust Act--a conclusion that is likely given the government's need to produce results since it has so far only spouted rhetoric--it will simply demand an end to such practices without allowing for a new form of regulation. And an end to the "overlap group" and other such discussions among schools will mean an end to the practice of setting across-the-board financial aid levels according to need...
...that the Hispanic community responds to different issues and concerns than the Black community and as a result would not really fit in as part of the Rainbow Coalition. "A major reason [for these differences]...is that the Hispanic community is more in the pattern of a Catholic ethnic group than a minority...