Category: News & Commentary
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Feds Agree with PHENOM: Mass. Misused Stimulus Funds
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General issued an “alert memorandum” dated September 2009 which documents loopholes in the federal stimulus law that allowed at least 3 states, including Massachusetts, […]
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Midnight Classes?!
In case you weren’t convinced that enrollments at community colleges were way up, and that resources are stretched to the breaking point….Bunker Hill Community College is now offering some classes […]
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Massachusetts Neglects Its Public Colleges: New Study Documents Meltdown
The report demonstrates the downward trend that students and staff at our public colleges have been feeling in their guts as fewer faculty teach larger classes, buildings crumble, and students […]
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Commentary: The New GI Bill
President Obama explained the rationale this way: “This is not simply a debt that we are repaying to the remarkable men and women who have served — it is an investment […]
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Students may be eligible for Food Stamps
PHENOM is supporting the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute’s campaign to publicize eligibility rules for food stamps as they apply to college students. Currently, 1,700 Massachusetts college students receive food stamps, […]
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PHENOM Files Complaint about Stimulus Funds
The waiver will allow the state to forgo rules stipulating how the $813 million in education stimulus funding received by the Commonwealth should be spent in the second and third […]
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Higher-ed group blasts use of stimulus money
Higher Education Advocates Protest Use of Stimulus Funds By Peter Schworm, Boston Globe Staff June 4, 2009 A Massachusetts higher education advocacy group filed a federal complaint yesterday against the […]
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PHENOM Files Federal Complaint Over Use of Mass. Stimulus Money
The Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM) has filed a formal complaint with the Obama Administration, alleging that Massachusetts is violating the spirit and letter of the American Recovery […]
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Fighting to Restore State Taxes
The Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM) is strongly urging Massachusetts legislators to increase taxes in order to avoid the massive cuts facing education, social services, and other essential […]
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Successful Rally and Lobby Day
April 8 was a chilly day in Boston, but temperatures around the Boston Common and State House rose noticeably with the energy of PHENOM’s rally, march, and legislative visits. See […]