The financial aid conspiracy; plus, 'For Colored Nerds'

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A group of elite colleges and universities this week found themselves at the center of a lawsuit alleging that they conspired to limit financial aid to admitted students. Sam talks to Washington Post higher education reporter Danielle Douglas-Gabriel about the lawsuit and what it means for students and families across the country. Plus, Eric Eddings and Brittany Luse join Sam to talk about the era of Black abundance in media and their revamped podcast, For Colored Nerds.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam Zant Betty.
0:02.7	This week, our colleges play fair with financial aid
0:07.3	and the host of the podcast for colored nerds.
0:12.3	All right, let's start the show.
0:16.9	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute
0:18.7	from NPR.
0:20.0	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:21.5	You know, the last two years or so,
0:23.7	and this pandemic, it's all put a big strain
0:26.5	on America's higher education system.
0:28.9	Lots of students are still taking college classes online,
0:32.4	and it's not clear when campus life will get back to normal.
0:36.1	In this week, new data showed the college enrollment
0:38.9	is down by more than one million students
0:42.1	since the pandemic began.
0:44.3	With all that bad news, I saw another headline
0:47.1	about college this week that kind of floored me.
0:50.8	A lawsuit was filed against 16 elite universities,
0:54.5	accusing them of price fixing.
0:57.6	Yeah, price fixing.
0:59.3	The claim is that schools like Georgetown and Yale and Duke,
1:03.0	they fix financial aid decisions and admissions decisions
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