Category: Higher Education News

Once again, here’s PHENOM’s weekly round-up of higher ed news, both locally and nationally. As always — use the comments section below.   National: Gender gaps in student government associations […]

Here’s a recap of some of the public higher ed news stories from the last week. As always — we hope you engage in a dialogue about these in the […]

Here’s a recap of some of the public higher ed news stories from the last week. As always — we hope you engage in a dialogue about these in the […]

Here are just a sampling of the public higher ed news stories of the last week. What are your reactions? Use the comment section below.   Student Nation: It’s Time […]

Most countries in Europe have free higher education.  One exception was Germany which instituted tuition fees in 2006.  But now they are reversing course and college will once again be […]

$3,856,866.11 – that’s by how much student debt recently decreased!   Rolling Jubilee just bought that much student debt (for pennies on the dollar), thereby eliminating debt of 2,761 people around […]

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 […]

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 young artist in Chile recently took matters into his own hands and stole and burned up $500 million worth of tuition contracts from the for-profit Universidad del Mar.  This […]