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Northwestern University has settled a class-action lawsuit alleging the school and 17 other universities violated antitrust laws and illegally collaborated in a price-fixing scheme to limit students’ financial aid. On Friday, Northwestern agreed to pay $43.5 million to settle the claim that it drove up the cost of attendance for students on financial aid. In a statement to the Tribune, ...

Dartmouth College, alongside Rice, Northwestern and Vanderbilt universities will pay a total of $166 million to settle a two-year-old lawsuit accusing them of colluding to limit financial aid for admitted

Negotiators for the Northwestern University Graduate Workers union reached a tentative contract agreement with the University Wednesday night after a 14-hour bargaining session.  The agreement comes after about nine months of negotiations, which reached a climax in January when more than 2,000 union members threatened to strike. Members of the union will vote to ratify...

The university claims its decision is driven by "growing volatility' in the Middle East.

Northwestern students who made a prank pro-Palestine front page for the school newspaper face criminal charges under an obscure anti-KKK law.

The Students Publishing Company reached out to the State’s Attorney’s office after receiving letters to campus editors, social media posts and thousands of petition signatures calling for the charges to be dropped.

Eighty-nine student organizations, faculty and Northwestern community members signed a letter to the editor published by North by Northwestern Friday calling on Students Publishing Company — The Daily Northwestern’s parent company — to drop a criminal complaint against two Black students connected to the distribution of imitated front pages of The Daily. The students were...

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into accusations of antisemitism at Northwestern University, as similar allegations continue to rock colleges and universities across the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. A complaint against Northwestern was filed last week by Zachary Marschall of Campus Reform, a Virginia-based organization that describes itself as a ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation Tuesday into Northwestern’s compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin. The investigation is the result of a complaint filed by Zachary Marshall, the editor in chief of Campus Reform — a...

Northwestern Antisemitism Complaint Triggers Federal Investigation - Evanston, IL - The U.S. Department of Education opened a probe Tuesday into allegations Northwestern discriminated against Jewish students.