Category: Reports & Publications

With the June 2013 annual meeting, PHENOM reorganized its structure to encourage more organizing on campuses and in communities, while continuing to be effective in our statewide work. Membership now […]

Last year, hundreds of thousands of students throughout Quebec were on strike for much of the year in a fight against tuition increases. The strike succeeded in reversing the increase, […]

Neil MacInnes-Barker has been a busy guy since he served as Student Government President at UMass Boston. All those speakers on Advocacy Day 2013 were flanked by a poster based […]

By Anastasia Wilson   In June, the Massachusetts legislature took a step to investigate student debt by creating a Subcommittee on Student Debt as part of the Joint Committee on […]

By Ken Haar, Westfield State University   In this year’s budget battle, the legislature and the governor dramatically reversed a decades-long trend of reducing spending on public higher education. This […]

Over 500 students, staff and faculty from almost every one of the public campuses came to the State House on March 8,  2012 with a simple powerful message: Public Higher […]

by Max Page   First, the bad news. Once again, when all the dust settled on the budget, the Governor and Legislature pushed through takeaways from public employees and continued […]

by Ellen Michaud Martins, UMass Lowell   On May 18, 2012, the Adjunct Faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell overwhelmingly ratified their first-ever union contract–between the University and […]