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 Massachusetts: Board of Higher Education to coordinate a statewide effort to strengthen public campus policies surrounding sexual assault prevention National: Students demand across the nation: “UnKoch My […]
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 comments below. Center for American Progress released two reports on public colleges: A Great Recession, a Great Retreat and Effects of State Higher Education […]
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 comments below. Robert B. Reich explores the gap between government subsidies of elite private universities versus public institutions. Richard Vedder suggests the solution to low […]
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 for Everyone to Come Our of the Debt Closet NPR: Florida Limits Student Borrowing Forbes comments on the American Enterprise Institute’s new report, Untapped Potential […]
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 free — even for international students. [No, wait, don’t all leave – we need you here!] Read why and how in this article.
$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 country! Rolling Jubilee had previously raised money to buy portfolios of medical debt on the secondary market and then declined to collect from the […]
A new study by Standard and Poor’s “suggests a more progressive income tax that requires wealthier individuals to pay higher tax rates could help states deal with revenue problems.” As the rich have gotten richer, growth in tax revenue has slowed — hurting all of us. Massachusetts is among the very few states with a […]
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 […]
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 will make it extremely difficult to prove the students’ debt exists. As explained in this article in the Guardian, this artistic action comes on the […]