Underfunding Public Higher Education

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<p>[Group</a> walks 114 miles to protest higher education cuts - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/08/group_walks_114_miles_to_protest_higher_education_cuts/]Group”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/08/group_walks_114_miles_to_protest_higher_education_cuts/)</p>

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Massachusetts ranks 46th among the 50 states in per capita support for public higher education and has cut funding per student more than almost any other state in the last five years, according to data compiled by State Higher Education Executive Officers. The cuts have driven the University of Massachusetts system to raise tuition and fees to among the highest in the country for public universities.

Senator Stan Rosenberg praised the crowd for mobilizing to demand that Beacon Hill begin to rebuild the higher education system in a state that gave birth to public education.</p>

<p>“We are seeing a national trend but it’s being played out in Massachusetts far more aggressively and far more destructively than any place else in the country,’’ said Rosenberg, a Democrat from Amherst. “The public higher education system in Massachusetts is absolutely dying. It’s time that Massachusetts get right and straight with public higher education again.’’

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