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PHENOM is hiring passionate and organized interns at our Salem State and UMass-Dartmouth chapters!  Under the guidance of our executive director and president, PHENOM’s student organizers will lead organizing and […]

Welcome back to The PHENOM Update, our official monthly newsletter where we keep you updated on recent goings on in our campaigns and around the higher ed world!  Come to […]

Alarmingly, the new “Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1) just passed by Congress disqualifies states such as Massachusetts from using Pell grants if those same states use them to provide students […]

Are you frustrated with the federal government’s cuts to higher education? Do you want to help improve financial aid access in Massachusetts and even fight for tuition-free college? Do you […]

Massachusetts’ state legislature is one of the least transparent in the country, so we can’t help but wonder: what do they have to hide? This is why PHENOM has officially […]

On Tuesday, September 17th, PHENOM and UMass Amherst’s Student Government Association hosted the event “Student Voices, Policy Choices” with progressive legislators Sen. James Eldridge, Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, Rep. Dan Sena, […]

What does it mean to have truly affordable college? It means having the guarantee of tuition-free college as a right with no ifs, ands or buts. This is why we […]

Massachusetts has just set a huge example for the rest of America by approving free community college! After a long series of drawn-out negotiations between the Massachusetts House of Representatives […]

While PHENOM’s goal of tuition-free public college is still a work in progress, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has fortunately brought us a step closer with its MassGrant and MassGrant PLUS […]

Here’s what to know about Massachusetts’ MassReconnect program, which gives all Massachusetts residents over 25 without a degree the chance to go to community college for free!  In August 2023, […]