Month: May 2012
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Writing to our Legislators
800 students at UMass Amherst recently wrote personal letters to their legislators. The letters told compelling personal stories and asked for increased funding for our campus budgets and for financial […]
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3 Important Recent Articles
A Generation is Hobbled by Student Debt (New York Times, May 13, 2012) Ninety-four percent of students who earn a bachelor’s degree borrow to pay for higher education – up […]
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New Research Shows Economic Value of Investing in Public Higher Education
PHENOM joined the Massachusetts Society of Professors in the State House release of an important new research study: Economic Impact of Investment in Public Higher Education in Massachusetts:: Short-Run Employment […]
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Learning from our Neighbors to the North
As many as 300,000 students have been on strike against tuition increases in Quebec over the past 3 months, with 180,000 still out on an unlimited strike. Demonstrations of more […]