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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! Greenfield CC SGA […]

Happy New Year 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 […]

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 […]

Amherst, MA — As a non-profit dedicated to improving public higher education in Massachusetts, we at the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM) unequivocally condemn the University of Massachusetts-Amherst […]

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, […]

Activists of UMass-Amherst Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), Amherst College YDSA, Hampshire College YDSA and PHENOM joined forces to call on Massachusetts’ richest universities like Amherst College pay their […]