The Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Paul Mark and Sen. Eileen Donoghue, held hearings around the state, at which numerous PHENOM members testified.  While we believe the recommendations in this report are not nearly ambitious enough, the report describes the crisis well and offers some interesting suggestions.  PHENOM hopes to release an independent economic analysis on […]

We are very pleased that the 2014-15 budget includes an increase in state appropriations for all of the campuses in the Public Higher Education system for the third year in a row.  At UMass, the increase is enough to trigger another year of fee freezes for its five campuses and to reach the 50/50 goal […]