And also that these practices enable the colleges to charge higher tuition for all students.
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Why would they have to prove No. 3?
The plaintiffs have to prove damages. I think they would have to show what effect, if any, binding ED agreements have on what they pay to attend the defendant schools. IMO, this can be done by showing a disparity in pricing in either the ED or RD stage.
I think any theory of the case more esoteric than that risks falling of its own weight.
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There is another thread on the case itself, and a few knowledgeable posters have explained more about the claims - without agreeing with them. Worthwhile reading.
Middleburyâs new president just announced that the college will end its graduate programs in Monterey. The Middlebury Institute of International Studies accounted for a majority of the collegeâs deficit over the past few years. While tough to hear for many, I think this is the right path forward. The focus will now be on the undergraduate college, summer language schools, and schools abroad.
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Thanks, @arcadia . Private colleges and universities are constantly hunting for additional income streams. Wasnât it Benjamin Franklin who said, âNothing ventured, nothing gained.â?
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Smart decision.
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Yes the title is clickbait, 100m investment for harvard is quite small. But multiple nescac schools could feasibly buy this amount or up to double.
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Seems like itâs time for another rankings post to breathe a little life back into this thread as we start the new school year. It came up in another thread and I posted it: a ranking of the LACs economics departments. The NESCAC does pretty well in this one. Seems like there have been a few changes since it was first posted but overall itâs largely consistent.
The NESCACs:
#1 Williams
#4 Middlebury
#7 Hamilton
#8 Amherst
#9 Wesleyan
#14 Bowdoin
#15 Bates
#19 Colby
#22 Trinity (expected to see them a little higher but whatever)
Of note, the top midwest LACs donât fare as well as their northeastern cousins in this ranking, with Oberlin claiming the top spot at 18 and perennial heavyweight Carleton ranked 32. Also note that Conn doesnât show up in this ranking at all. Hard to believe that they donât fall somewhere in the T50 but maybe econ isnât a strength. IDK.
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Those of you interested in film may enjoy The Visitor, in which a Connecticut College economics professor is portrayed.
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Itâs football game week around the NESCAC. Anyone else excited about this?
Bates hosts Amherst, Colby hosts Trinity, Wesleyan hosts Middlebury, Hamilton hosts Williams and Bowdoin hosts Tufts. (Reminder Conn does not field a football team)
The school I follow does I think a pretty good job with their sports media efforts (for a D3 program at least), so I thought Iâd share their season hype video. https://www.instagram.com/wes_athletics/?hl=en
Here are some clipped photos from it. Iâm going to poke around and look at what other NESCAC schools are doing by way of social media for sports. I have to add that the conference website https://nescac.com/ is also very well done.
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Yes! I know Bates is celebrating their 150th year of Bates football, and many students will be helping out with promotion for that. First home game this weekend & will be watching to see what they do. Right now there is a 5 part series on the program history - think the first part dropped yesterday. PS - Noticed that they moved the famous bobcat statue that people touch for good luck to the end of the football field (front and center) â why it was hidden over on a small pathway for so many years Iâm not sure??? Supposedly they chose the bobcat for a mascot all those years ago because, even though itâs small, it fights like a giant. 
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I just learned that Bates was part of the very first intercollegiate football game in the state Maine, when they hosted Tufts:
Things have changed a bit.
Here is their hype video. Itâs also very well done. Bates has a nice campus.
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Bates also has really good social media, marketing, photography. The best of NESCAC Iâd say.
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Regarding the Bates mascot, people may enjoy this video, âWhat Does the Bobcat Say?â
All the NESCAC mascots are mentioned, although Amherst were still the Lord Jeffs.
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They really do! Very good Athletic Communications department at Bates. I think Aaron Morse has been there for 10 years (covers a lot of the games). They also have a lot of students who help out with social media, video, photography, etc. One of the football players has his own video/photography social channel as well and that gets re-posted by Bates quite a bit.
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Love this!!!
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All the hype over the 150th year of Bates football (and packed stands) must have worked! Crazy game. First double OT in decades. 26-23 win over Amherst! Football rallies to defeat Amherst 26-23 in double overtime thriller - Bates College
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Bates is weird. They only won two NESCAC games last year, but they were against WesU, the eventual champs (their only loss) and Middlebury who ended up 6-3. Giant killers.
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