Class-action lawsuit claims Brown, other private schools, participated in price-fixing scheme

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BROWN UNIVERSITY is one of 40 private colleges and universities across the U.S., as well as national education support nonprofit College Board, are being sued in federal court over an alleged price-fixing scheme. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY
BROWN UNIVERSITY is one of 40 private colleges and universities across the U.S., as well as national education support nonprofit College Board, are being sued in federal court over an alleged price-fixing scheme. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

PROVIDENCE – Brown University and 39 other private colleges across the U.S. and the national education support nonprofit College Board have been accused in a federal class-action lawsuit of conspiring to increase tuition prices. In the 52-page complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois on Oct. 7, plaintiffs Maxwell Hansen and Eileen Chang, and

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