Category: PHENOM Blog

“Performance Funding” is all the rage in public higher education these days. A cornerstone of the Department of Higher Education’s Vision Project, it is playing a bigger role in how […]

By Ken Haar (Westfield State), PHENOM Legislative Director The fiscal 2015 budget process is over, and while there were many successes for public higher education, there was a good deal […]

By Kim Selwitz, PHENOM President We have exciting news to share: after a rigorous, extensive search process we have hired our first ever Executive Director, Natalie Higgins. Natalie graduated in […]

During a wide-ranging conversation on April 14, 2014 at UMass Amherst, it was clear that Representative Jim McGovern was passionate and well-informed about the current state of affairs in higher […]

By Colleen Avedikian, PHENOM Vice President UMass Dartmouth’s PHENOM chapter has hosted weekly meetings and campus events since 2009. Its formula for success is close contact with student groups, support […]

By Ira Rubenzahl, President, Springfield Technical Community College When we look back on terrible wrongs–slavery, unjust wars, periods of deep and pervasive inequality–we may wonder how individuals tolerated and ignored […]

On July 15, Barbara Madeloni took office as President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the 113,000-member union of educators in public schools in Massachusetts. This follows a year-long campaign during […]

PHENOM fights for better state funding, lower student costs, and improved access to public higher education. Even when we make important gains – like the fee freeze – we are […]

The success of the massive 2012 student strike in Quebec, which lasted more than 6 months, involved over 200,000 students, and brought down the provincial government, demonstrated that students were […]