Category: PHENOM Blog
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PHENOM Gets Ready for 2013-14
PHENOM members are a dedicated bunch! On June 15, a group of 20 students, staff, alums and faculty spent 5 hours on a beautiful Saturday at Quinsigamond Community College […]
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PHENOM Goes to Quebec
11 Massachusetts activists went on a PHENOM-sponsored trip to Montreal for several days in May. The purpose was to learn from student activists who had participated in last year’s student […]
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PHENOM Calls on Senate to Match House Funding
The Senate Ways and Means Committee has proposed a budget for public higher education that falls far short of that passed by the House of Representatives. Most importantly, it does […]
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All You Need to Know about Student Loans
This New York Times article by Joseph Stiglitz is a particularly clear explanation of the student debt crisis, along with suggestions of how to fix it. Stiglitz, former chief economist […]
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Per Student Support for Public Higher Education
This graph shows how state support for public higher education students has declined dramatically, But if the budget proposed by the House Ways and Means Committee is passed, we’ll start […]
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Free Public Higher Education – How It’s Done Elsewhere
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 […]
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Big Budget Boost May Lead to Fee Freeze
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 […]
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The Big Shift: Who Pays for Public Higher Education
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 […]
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Advocacy Day a Huge Success
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 […]
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Building Our Common Wealth: New Flier Says It All!
This new 2-page flier from the Department of Higher Education is one of the items that will be given to legislators on Public Higher Education Advocacy Day March 5. It’s […]