Category: Higher Education News

An important article in “Inside Higher Ed” discusses how and why Germany is abandoning its experiment with charging tuition fees to college students. The state and federal governments are making […]

The House Ways and Means budget, released on April 10, would increase funding for public higher education by $110 million, the same amount proposed by Governor Patrick.  This would be […]

This chart shows very clearly how the cost of educating students in Massachusetts public colleges and universities has been shifted from the state to the students and their families.  This […]

600+ students, faculty and staff from around the state came to the State House March 5 to advocate for a dramatic increase in funding for public higher education, AND progressive […]

Governor Patrick (along with passionate and articulate students) will address what promises to be a record-setting crowd at this year’s Public Higher Education Day of Advocacy on March 5.  Sign […]

Thanks, as always to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, for their quick and concise analysis: Higher Education The Governor’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 proposal for higher education makes steady […]

On January 15, Governor Patrick called for major new investments in education, and proposed a set of very progressive tax reforms to pay for them   This is potentially the biggest […]

Save the date and start spreading the word!  Public Higher Education Advocacy Day at the State House will be March 5, 2013.  This will be an opportunity for hundreds (thousands?) […]

As reported in the Boston Globe on November 19, Governor Patrick is directing public colleges and universities to allow young undocumented immigrants to pay the in-state rate for tuition and […]