Higher Education

$574 Million.
That's how much the state is underfunding the Commonwealth's public colleges and universities.

The facts speak for themselves:

The state is underfunding public colleges and universities by more than $500 million a year.
Student debt has skyrocketed.
Too many full-time faculty have been replaced by poorly paid adjuncts, and staff have been asked to do more with less. Vital student and support services have been decimated.

Public higher ed deserves a foundation budget that guarantees students a high-quality, debt-free education.

In 2014, the state commission found that our public colleges and universities are underfunded by more than $500 million a year.

Call on your Board of Trustees to take action.

Our state has cut per-pupil spending on public higher education by 32 percent since FY01.

How privatization and underfunding have led to a budget crisis at UMass Boston.