Take a minute (well, actually a minute and a half) to watch great TV coverage about the Student Speakout at Holyoke Community College. Organized by PHENOM members, drawing a large crowd, this event clearly struck a nerve. Nationally, two-thirds of the class of 2011 held student loans, with the average amount owed being …
Category Archive: PHENOM in the News
Mar 15
How to Improve Community Colleges
This op ed, written by PHENOM Vice President Max Page after extensive discussions within PHENOM and with our allies, appeared in the Boston Globe March 14, 2012.
Mar 09
Media Coverage of 3-8-12 Advocacy Day
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x1957363860/Students-faculty-rally-for-less-expensive-college-experience Metro West, also ran in Milford Daily News “A boisterous crowd of nearly a thousand students and faculty members gathered at the State House yesterday to lobby lawmakers for a better education at a lower cost. …” Channel 22 http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/politics/students-concerned-about-college-cost (Includes a 2 minute video) “Students and professors from community …
Jun 10
Berkshire Eagle says Fund Public Higher Ed!
PHENOM has begun a series of meetings with newspaper editorial boards. Our April 27 meeting with the Hampshire Gazette led to a reporter and photographer riding the bus with us from Northampton and publishing a full page spread on the Act to Invest in Our Communities. On June 2, we met with the Berkshire Eagle …
Feb 11
A Speech That Says It All
UMass President Jack Wilson, Commissioner of Higher Education Richard Freeland and PHENOM Vice President Max Page were invited to address the formal founding of the Joint House-Senate Public Higher Education Caucus on February 10. With many legislators and college administrators in attendance, Max clearly laid out what needs to happen for Massachusetts to have the …
Jan 19
PHENOM on the Boston Common
Check out this great slide show about PHENOM’s March 8, 2010 rally on the Boston Common, as experienced by a first-time rally-goer.
Jan 15
Press Turns to PHENOM
Jul 19
PHENOM-enal rally for a Better State of Mind
This newsletter from the Massachusetts Community College Council contains a very detailed report and great photos from PHENOM’s Rally, March, Race to the Median, and State House Day March 8, 2010.
May 14
Letter on “Vision Project” in Boston Globe
For higher ed, ‘Vision’ first, then follow-through May 14, 2010 KUDOS FOR editorializing that “there is something fundamentally wrong with a state education system that puts so much attention on getting its K-12 students ready for college only to give short shrift to the state’s five public university campuses, nine state colleges, and 15 community …
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Sep 06
Finish Line grants referenced on leading economics blog
One of PHENOM’s priorities is finding ways to improve graduation rates at public colleges in a way which is meaningful and stays true to our goal of meaningfully improving accessibility for poor and working class students. The neoliberal approach currently being pursued by Beacon Hill focuses on increasing graduation rates by increasing selectivity, using metrics which …
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