A lawsuit alleges that the universityeis engaged in price fixing an unfairly limited aid by using a shared methodology to calculate applicants financial need. "It's a little bit perplexing that we're included, given that we haven't been involved with this group for a decade," says Brown President Mark O'Mara. Can you explain why college tuition inflation has outpaste most other inflation may be outside of health care costs and may be real estate in some places? Youno, i don't know.
Enrollment is down for the first time in memory, and critics complain college is too expensive, too elitist, and too politicized. The economist Chris Paxson — who happens to be the president of Brown University — does not agree. (Part 3 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)