MTA applauds governor for legislation protecting against Trump cuts to public higher ed
MTA applauds governor for legislation protecting against Trump cuts to public higher ed
Legislation
MTA President Max Page issued the following statement on Governor Maura Healey's DRIVE Initiative.
“The federal administration is waging a war on our universities that threatens life-saving and world-improving research, as well as the Commonwealth’s leadership in academic research and innovation. UMass Amherst alone has lost $30 million in federal research funding this year; it is likely that this coming year will bring even more cuts. The vast majority of those research dollars went to pay for the outstanding faculty, staff, graduate students and post-doctoral students who do research that is crucial to the health and welfare of our nation. There are other threatened cuts, including federal funding for the TRIO programs which help underprivileged students, often first-generation college students, succeed. The MTA applauds the Healey administration for using revenue from the Fair Share Amendment to protect the invaluable research and academic work taking place at public colleges and universities. We are proud to have played a significant role through our Raise Up Massachusetts coalition to pass Fair Share, which is exceeding expectations and thereby making this kind of funding for public education, in preK through public higher education, possible.”
MTA Legislative Priorities About Gov. Healey's DRIVE Initiative