Chairman Jordan Questioning at Hearing on the Elite Universities Cartel

Bloat@Brown creator Alex Shieh ’27 testified in front of Congress on Wednesday morning in a hearing related to a congressional probe accusing Ivy League schools of antitrust violations and collectively hiking tuition prices.

Shieh — one of four witnesses at the hearing — called on the committee to subpoena President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 and ask her why Brown’s sticker price has exceeded $90,000 per year.

In March, Shieh took a page out of Musk’s book. As part of an investigation for the Brown Spectator, a conservative and libertarian school publication, he sent similar questions to nearly 4,000 Brown administrators. According to Shieh’s website, he asked them to explain their roles, what tasks they had performed over the prior week and how Brown students would be impacted if their positions were eliminated. “Some of them answered, and the ones who answered seemed to have pretty useful jobs,” Shieh told lawmakers on June 4. “I guess we can infer that the ones who didn’t have jobs that are not so important.”

In March, Shieh launched Bloat@Brown, a database aiming to expose alleged “administrative bloat” at Brown. Inspired by emails sent to federal employees by the Department of Government Efficiency, Shieh contacted over 3,000 University administrators, asking them to describe what they had accomplished over the previous week.

Shieh was subsequently investigated for alleged student conduct violations. In May, Brown cleared him of all charges

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Chairman Jordan to Alex Shieh Brown Univ: $90K/yr, $7M/year, 3805 admins-7000 students. Shieh was investigated for conduct violations