Mountain Hiking

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#DebtFreeDecember

PHENOM wants to hear your student debt story. We’re starting a campaign this month called #DebtFreeDecember. Until we give a voice to student debt and start building community, we will never be able to tackle the student debt crisis! Submit your stories/pictures on Facebook and on Twitter @massphenom. Don’t forget to use #DebtFreeDecember! To get […]

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Performance Funding: What’s the Problem?

“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 state allocations are distributed to our campuses. Basically, externally-imposed, one-size-fits-all criteria are used to assess how well a school is doing, and the better it […]

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State Budget: When a Deal Is Not a Deal

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 of disappointment as well. Following the grand success of the fiscal 2014 budget, with progress made toward splitting the cost of public higher education 50/50 […]

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PHENOM Names Executive Director

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 May from the Northeastern University School of Law with her Juris Doctor. She received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. […]

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PHENOM Talks Higher Ed with Congressman McGovern

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 education. Initiated by PHENOM, a group of about a dozen students, staff and faculty met with Congressman McGovern. He shared a letter he wrote to […]

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UMASS Dartmouth Chapter Has Staying Power

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 from the UMD Faculty Federation, and academic department recognition. UMD PHENOM has been able to organize important events on campus, including teach-ins, Legislative Call-In Days, […]

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