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 aid. After many hours of late night sorting, the letters were hand delivered by students and PHENOM members, and the entire stack of 800 has […]
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 from 45 percent in 1993, according to an analysis by The New York Times of the latest data from the Department of Education. ..”If one […]
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 Stimulus, Long-Run Public Returns, by Michael Ash, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at UMass Amherst and Shantel Palacio of the Center for Public Policy […]
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 than 250,000 people have taken place in Montreal. A massive movement against austerity and for education as a right and not a privilege is unfolding […]