Columbia University campus in Manhattan, on Aug. 28, 2023. Five universities have agreed to pay $104.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of violating an agreement to be “need-blind” when awarding financial aid. [Amir Hamja/The New York Times] For almost a quarter of a century, a coterie of the nation’s most elite universities had … Continue reading Yale, Duke and Columbia among elite schools to settle in price-fixing case