
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed Harvard University on Thursday after the university failed to provide adequate documentation for the committee’s inquiries into suspected antitrust violations.
The subpoena was sent to Harvard President Alan Garber after the university failed to abide by a previous deadline of April 22. The goal of the committee’s investigation is to determine if Harvard is violating antitrust laws relating to tuition costs and financial aid packages.
“We are particularly concerned that Ivy League member institutions appear to collectively raise tuition prices while engaging in price discrimination by offering selective financial aid packages to maximize profit,” the committee wrote in their initial request to Harvard on April 8. “By apparently engaging in anticompetitive pricing practices, Harvard University may be acting inconsistent with U.S. antitrust laws.”
The committee asked Harvard to provide all documents, records, and communications relating to admissions from Jan. 1, 2019, to the present day by April 22 in their initial request. Instead of cooperating, the university waited until the deadline to ask for their first extension and didn’t provide any documents until May 22.
By June 25, the university had only provided 380 documents, which the committee referred to as “one of the lowest totals among Ivy League institutions,” and the university refused to commit to a specific date when it would fully comply with the committee’s record request, prompting them to issue the subpoena.
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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