On August 16, 2014 a group of 15 PHENOM members spent four hours planning PHENOM’s new agenda for the upcoming 2014-2015 year. Discussions included a Q&A with PHENOM’s new Executive Director, endorsements of Progressive Massachusetts and Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, upcoming actions, and PHENOM’s refocus on building a mass movement through Campus Chapters. Check out the Annual […]
PHENOM members are a dedicated bunch! On June 15, a group of 20 students, staff, alums and faculty spent 5 hours on a beautiful Saturday at Quinsigamond Community College planning for the coming year. After watching an inspiring 9 minute video about last year’s student strike in Quebec, much of the discussion focused on […]
PHENOM has its largest Executive Board ever! With diverse representation from all parts of the state and all our major constituencies, the Board is prepared to expand PHENOM’s role in the fight for affordable, accessible, high quality public higher education in Massachusetts. As UMass President Caret said recently in a TV interview, without additional state […]
Held at Quinsigamond Community College Attendance: Lane Lloyd, Patrick Burke, Nicole Ouimette, Max Page, Emily Round, Nedia Morsy, Paola Ozuna, Anastasia Wilson, Nicole Mitchell, Ben Taylor, Ryan Manita, Craig Slatin, Ken Haar, Jim Tarr, Stasha Lampert, Alex Kulenovic, Hollywood Aman, Ferd Wulkan Updates Nicole has formed Students for Affordable and Valuable Education (SAVE) at HCC […]
Meeting held at Quinsigamond Community College Attendance: Ken Haar, Marie Hedrick, Travis Henderson, Alex Kulenovic, Stasha Lampert, Ryan Manita, Max Page, Craig Slatin, Ferd Wulkan 1. Finances a) The Board reviewed and discussed the IRS 990 form. A motion was made to accept it. The motion passed unanimously. b) A motion was made to replace […]
The good news: This year was probably rock bottom. The state has passed very austere budgets for the past few years and higher ed has seen deep funding cuts, the worst of which was this year, the proverbial cliff many have been talking about, when stimulus funds finally ran out. From here, we will finally […]
It has been a very difficult year for public higher education, and next year’s budget will be extremely challenging, but PHENOM was successful in a number of ways.
Approximately 42 members of PHENOM attended the Annual Meeting June 6, 2009 at Springfield Technical Community College. Following a get-to-know-each-other icebreaker, members discussed what PHENOM did well this year, what could have been done better, and what we should do next year.