Overview

• The House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas to Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania on July 1.
• Each school has until July 22 to turn over broader internal communications and documents after their April responses were deemed inadequate by committee leaders.
• Investigators are examining whether Ivy League institutions colluded to raise tuition as price-fixing and leveraged applicants’ financial data to maximize net revenue through aid packages.
• Harvard University, previously subpoenaed, faces a July 17 deadline in the same inquiry into coordinated tuition and financial aid practices.
• Committee officials plan to use the compelled materials to shape potential antitrust legislation, while Brown and Penn assert they have fully cooperated by submitting thousands of pages of records.