Category: News & Commentary
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“Nestled between credit cards and a drivers license should be a public higher education card…”
Can you spare 2-1/2 minutes? Listen to this thought-provoking commentary by PHENOM Board member Max Page that played on WFCR on October 12.
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In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants: It’s About Time
Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants are lining up around the country to take advantage of “Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”, the program recently announced by President Obama […]
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Boston Globe: “Fee hikes threaten viability of public university system”
“The term ‘state university’’ starts to lose its meaning when the state provides just a quarter of its operating cost.” The Boston Globe editorialized about costs at the State Universities […]
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Videos of Public Higher Ed Advocacy Day 3-8-12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=eG5ocFD1p_4 , produced by Bristol CCTV, includes the inspiring short speeches given by Charles Desmond, Chair of the Board of Higher Education, Angel Donohue-Rodriguez, student, Salem State University, Tom Sannicandro, House […]
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Finish Line grants referenced on leading economics blog
One of PHENOM’s priorities is finding ways to improve graduation rates at public colleges in a way which is meaningful and stays true to our goal of meaningfully improving accessibility for […]
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Berkshire Eagle says Fund Public Higher Ed!
PHENOM has begun a series of meetings with newspaper editorial boards. Our April 27 meeting with the Hampshire Gazette led to a reporter and photographer riding the bus with us […]
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House Budget Proposal FY 2012
The FY 2012 House Ways & Means budget proposes: $818 million in direct appropriations to the state’s campuses of public higher education. Of this total, $418 million is for UMass, […]
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Make UMass Affordable
The average debt levels for students at Williams, Amherst College, Wellesley, Harvard, and MIT range between $8,000 and $15,000. At UMass Amherst it is $23,614. This article in the February 23, 2011 Boston […]
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A Speech That Says It All
UMass President Jack Wilson, Commissioner of Higher Education Richard Freeland and PHENOM Vice President Max Page were invited to address the formal founding of the Joint House-Senate Public Higher Education […]