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Subscribe in a reader Check out our website at phenomonline.org __________ new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'profile', rpp: 5, interval: 6000, width: 'auto', height: 225, theme: { shell: { background: '#e6e6e6', color: '#000000' }, tweets: { background: '#fafafa', color: '#000000', links: '#0722eb' } }, features: { scrollbar: true, loop: false, live: false, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: false, behavior: 'all' } }).render().setUser('massphenom').start(); __________ __________ Tumblr (3.0; @massphenom)http://massphenom.tumblr.com/From Inside Higher Ed: February 8, 2012 - 3:00am A majority of more than 800 bankruptcy lawyers in...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17769088551http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17769088551Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:13:52 -0500studentnewssubmissionPlease distribute widely Public Higher Education Lobby Day March 8, 2012 Register now...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17667047421http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17667047421Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:11:31 -0500http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/getting-more-liberal-with-age/?hphttp://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17666998214http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17666998214Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:39:40 -0500The focus on community colleges as job training centers is part of the President’s budget as...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17584555427http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17584555427Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:57:19 -0500….it couldn’t hurt to review what the citizens of Massachusetts said about the purposes...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17501097681http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17501097681Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:02:00 -0500Where Americans Most Depend on Government Benefits. Guess where?: Here is a stunning map from...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17499292558http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/17499292558Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:33:23 -0500Governor’s Budget Taxes Students and Workers, not the 1% The Public Higher Education Network of...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16537577799http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16537577799Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:19:58 -0500This might be of interested to PHENOM members: Steven J. Tepper “Creative Work and the...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16469616645http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16469616645Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:14:01 -0500The governor is proposing a major change in the community college system, which has three...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16408030853http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16408030853Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:54:59 -0500PHENOM Board president, Stasha Lampert, quoted in Boston Globe article about UMass Boston student...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16405405828http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16405405828Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:09:29 -0500Declining state support for public higher education is a national epidemic. Max Pagehttp://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16134983259http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16134983259Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:23:45 -0500http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Simple-Dollar/2011/1016/Blame-students-for-loan-debt-Not-so-fas...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16063518370http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16063518370Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:37:47 -0500studentsubmission“The country has, for the most part, continued to subscribe to the once dominant European...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16063495659http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/16063495659Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:36:59 -0500Evan Dobelle on the economic value of investing in public higher education: One of PHENOM’s...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15827093950http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15827093950Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:46:20 -05004 Letters to the Globe, Criticism of the Globe's support for the Boston Foundation's call for...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15826142766http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15826142766Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:14:03 -0500Brian Mcgrory in the...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15824171341http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15824171341Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:49:45 -0500Yes, this is old, but worth a watch, especially in the discussion about taxes and investments in...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15785175231http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15785175231Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:40:06 -0500If that middle-of-the-road policy magazine, Commonwealth (published Mass Inc.) starts focusing on...http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15747261404http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15747261404Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:20:05 -0500http://www.nationofchange.org/decline-public-good-1325858730 Max Pagehttp://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15732500600http://massphenom.tumblr.com/post/15732500600Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:40:06 -0500Worth a listen, especially to what Paul Reville and Marty Meehan have to say. 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