Month: September 2013
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Freebies for the Rich: Why Are Public Colleges Giving More Non-Need-Based Aid?
This excellent article from the New York Times describes how – and why – many public colleges have shifted more of their financial aid away from students who need it […]
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Tell Legislators About Student Debt!
The Massachusetts Legislature has a new committee to investigate, study, and make recommendations on the issue of student loans and debt. They are holding hearings around the state and want […]
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PHENOM Reframed
With the June 2013 annual meeting, PHENOM reorganized its structure to encourage more organizing on campuses and in communities, while continuing to be effective in our statewide work. Membership now […]
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Road Trip: PHENOM GoesTo Montreal
Last year, hundreds of thousands of students throughout Quebec were on strike for much of the year in a fight against tuition increases. The strike succeeded in reversing the increase, […]
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EducateMA
Neil MacInnes-Barker has been a busy guy since he served as Student Government President at UMass Boston. All those speakers on Advocacy Day 2013 were flanked by a poster based […]
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Celebrating a Sea Change
Any program of dramatic change sounds preposterous when first proposed, especially when it runs up against a decades-long status quo. But change is the only constant, and you should never […]
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Legislature Takes on Student Debt
By Anastasia Wilson In June, the Massachusetts legislature took a step to investigate student debt by creating a Subcommittee on Student Debt as part of the Joint Committee on […]
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PHENOM Helps Win State Funding and Fee Freeze
By Ken Haar, Westfield State University In this year’s budget battle, the legislature and the governor dramatically reversed a decades-long trend of reducing spending on public higher education. This […]