Higher Education

Relative to students accessing food and nutritional information

Relative to higher education tuition and fee waivers for seniors

Relative to establishing a tuition free program for teachers and paraprofessionals

Relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program

Relative to instate tuition

Relative to transcript notations

Relative to debt-free public higher education

Relative to college tuition and admissions

Providing full student representation on the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees

Relative to Hispanic-serving institutions

Designating the Senator Bill Owens Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Ensuring students' access to academic transcripts

To establish comprehensive rights and career advancement for contingent faculty in public higher education

Relative to the Bean New Deal

Promoting an adjunct bill of rights

Relative to community colleges and the career technical initiative

Establishing the public higher education contingent faculty reform pilot program

To modernize the endowment match program for community colleges

Relative to debt-free public higher education

Designating the Senator Bill Owens Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Expanding the community college training incentive program

Protecting students abroad

Relative to the endowment match program

Relative to the rights of faculty members at the University of Massachusetts

Relative to the endowment match program

To require disclosure of conflicts of interests in academic institutions

To establish a master of library science assistance program

To support access to vocational schools

Establishing a fund to further educational opportunities for caregivers to adults with disabilities

Protecting public higher education student information

Increasing awareness of public student loan forgiveness

Relative to tuition waivers for children raised by a grandparent or other relative

To provide green and healthy public colleges and universities and address their deferred maintenance needs

Relative to tuition waivers for children raised by a grandparent or other relative

Protecting public higher education student information

To provide green and healthy public colleges and universities and address their deferred maintenance needs

To modernize financial aid access

To support college students in recovery

Relative to advanced placement examinations and college credit

Relative to opioid overdose prevention in college housing

Relative to college in high school

Banning legacy preferences in higher education

Relative to advanced placement examinations

Relative to tuition and student loan reimbursement in gateway cities

Relative to admissions requirements to institutions of higher education

Banning legacy preferences in higher education

Ensuring tuition equity at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture

To facilitate student financial assistance

Establishing a fund to further educational opportunities for caregivers to adults with disabilities

Relative to the Honorable George V. Kenneally, Jr

Committing to higher education the resources to insure a strong and healthy public higher education system

Relative to debt-free public higher education

Committing to higher education the resources to insure a strong and healthy public higher education system

To authorize state universities to offer clinical and professional doctorate programs

Relative to the rights of faculty members at the University of Massachusetts

Relative to mental health awareness in higher education

Promoting educational awareness and opportunity

Providing full student representation on the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees

Assisting with higher education recordkeeping responsibilities

Relative to a tuition and fee freeze at all public colleges and universities

Relative to instate tuition

Relative to the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center

Relative to higher education capital investment in gateway cities

To ensure tuition equity for Massachusetts residents

Relative to college in high school

To advance fairness, integrity, and excellence in higher education admissions

Relative to Social Work Uplifting Practices and Exam Removal (“The SUPER Act”)

To support college students in recovery

Relative to the endowment match program

Banning legacy preferences in higher education

Establishing a fund to further educational opportunities for caregivers to adults with disabilities

Relative to the endowment match program

Relative to admissions requirements to institutions of higher education

Establishing a behavioral health workforce center of excellence

Relative to community college affordability

Instructing the board of higher education to engage house of corrections and state prisons

Relative to college athlete compensation and agent regulation

Relative to social work uplifting practices and exam removal

Relative to higher education financial literacy counseling

Relative to tuition waivers for children raised by a grandparent or other relative

Providing access to higher education for high school graduates in the Commonwealth

To require disclosure of conflicts of interests in academic institutions

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

To establish a Master of Library Science assistance program

Establishing the Finish Line Scholarship Program

Providing access to higher education for high school graduates in the Commonwealth

Relative to advanced placement examinations

Relative to advanced placement examinations

Relative to advanced placement examinations and college credit

Relative to acceptance of AP scores for college credit

To authorize the state universities to offer clinical and professional doctorate programs

To authorize state universities to offer clinical and professional doctorate programs

To facilitate additional financial student assistance

Relative to the Honorable George V. Kenneally, Jr

Relative to online education for high school students for college credit

Compelling the president and fellows of Harvard College to divest from fossil fuel

Relative to reporting equity in higher education

To establish the grow your own teacher education initiative

Improving graduation rates at public colleges and universities

To ensure minimum fair wages and employment stability for adjunct faculty

Relative to higher education financial literacy counseling

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

Relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program

Relative to instate tuition

Providing full student representation on the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees

Relative to veteran tuition

Improving access to affordable higher education

Relative to student debt

To guarantee debt-free public higher education

Creating a child savings program

Establishing tuition free community college in Massachusetts

Assisting low-income students success through work-study

Creating higher education opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other developmental disabilities

Establishing a community college campus hunger pilot program

Creating higher education opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other developmental disabilities who have exited special education

Relative to intercollegiate compensation and rights

Relative to community college tuition

Committing to higher education the resources to insure a strong and healthy public higher education system

Establishing the Massachusetts Hunger-Free Campus Initiative

Relative to the endowment match program

Assisting low-income students success through work-study

Establishing a behavioral health workforce center of excellence

Establishing a behavioral health workforce center

Protecting public higher education student information

Protecting public higher education student information

Requiring institutions of higher education to provide uniform financial aid information to accepted applicants

Investing in public higher education

Relative to advance placement examinations

Providing access to higher education for high school graduates in the Commonwealth

Expanding access to higher education tuition and fee waivers for adopted foster children

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

Relative to remedial course vouchers for students impacted by COVID-19

Protecting students abroad

Relative to UMass tuition credit

To ensure safe and healthy public higher education campuses

To increase access to higher education for disadvantaged students

Supporting urgent community college equity through student services

To amend the charter of Wheaton College

Relative to community college tuition

Establishing the Finish Line Scholarship Program

To ensure higher education student and campus safety

Requiring institutions of higher education to provide uniform financial aid information to accepted applicants

To guarantee debt-free public higher education

To address the degree gap and reduce student debt

Resolutions supporting efforts to ensure that students from Massachusetts have access to debt-free higher education at public colleges and universities

Requiring institutions of higher education to provide uniform financial aid information to accepted applicants

Establishing tuition free community college in Massachusetts

Requiring institutions of higher education to provide uniform financial aid information to accepted applicants

Relative to strengthening and expanding affordable, quality higher education opportunities for residents of the Commonwealth

Committing to higher education the resources to insure a strong and healthy public higher education system

Establishing a commission to study student loan debt relief programs

Relative to establishing institutional public private partnerships

Relative to online education for high school students for college credit

Relative to equal opportunity for high school graduates in the commonwealth

Relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

To ensure minimum fair wages and employment stability for adjunct faculty

Relative to college tuition and admissions

Relative to the endowment match program

Relative to higher education capital investment in gateway cities

Relative to the creation of the battlefield to STEM field incentive program

Regarding gender non-specific designation for financial aid forms

Suspending student loan debt due to the COVID-19 emergency

Relative to protecting our public higher education system during the COVID-19 pandemic

To ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff on the campuses of state colleges, community colleges and state universities

Relative to early college high schools

Ensuring students' access to academic transcripts

Investing in public higher education

Relative to the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center

Requiring sexual misconduct climate surveys at institutions of higher education

Related to educational courses in wine tasting at a qualified institution of higher education

Requiring written notice to students of the processes available for addressing sexual assault

Requiring sexual misconduct climate surveys at institutions of higher education

Creating higher education opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other developmental disabilities who have exited special education

Relative to training tomorrow’s truck drivers

Protecting public higher education student information

Creating higher education opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other developmental disabilities

Improving graduation rates at public colleges and universities

Relative to college athlete compensation

To establish a Master of Library Science assistance program

To improve the excellence to teaching programs

To require disclosure of conflicts of interests in academic institutions

Providing access to higher education for high school graduates in the Commonwealth

Establishing a special commission to review opportunities to reduce the costs of higher education by improving the utilization of digital learning technology

Relative to the rights of faculty members at the University of Massachusetts

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

Relative to UMass tuition credit

To support improved financial stability in higher education

Relative to higher education transparency

To prevent bureaucratic overreach in the collection of student debt

To authorize state universities to offer clinical and professional doctorate programs

Relative to breaking generational cycles of poverty

Relative to strengthening and expanding affordable, quality higher education opportunities for residents of the Commonwealth

Relative to higher education boards and trustees

Establishing a program for student loan forgiveness

Establishing the Massachusetts Educational Trust Fund

By Mr. Cusack of Braintree, a petition (accompanied by order, House, No. 2997) of Mark J. Cusack, Jack Lewis and Natalie Higgins that the joint committee on Ways and Means and the House and Senate committees on Post Audit and Oversight hold public hearings requiring public colleges and universities to assign their portion of the pension liability of the Commonwealth

To provide access to higher education for high school graduates in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program

Relative to state reciprocity agreements

Relative to equal opportunity for high school graduates in the commonwealth

Relative to tuition for U.S. veterans

To ensure tuition equity for Massachusetts residents

Relative to campus safety

Providing full student representation on the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees

To clarify comparable health care coverage

Making public higher education in Massachusetts free for residents of the state

Relative to limiting the cost of public higher education

To ensure tuition equity for Massachusetts residents

To ensure equal access to college course materials for visually impaired students

Protecting students and increasing accountability at Massachusetts colleges and universities

To establish a Master of Library Science assistance program

Increasing transparency for the University of Massachusetts Building Authority

Relative to access to higher education for veterans

Relative to educating students about the cost of a college degree

Relative to the rights of faculty members at the University of Massachusetts

Providing access to higher education for high school graduates in the Commonwealth

Establishing the Finish Line Scholarship Program

Relative to ensuring quality education and training programs

Creating higher education opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities, autism and other developmental disabilities

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

Relative to the public safety on urban college campuses

Creating a child savings program

Relative to improving graduation rates at public colleges and universities

Resolutions supporting efforts to ensure that students from Massachusetts have access to debt-free higher education at public colleges and universities

Promoting access to higher education beginning at birth

Relative to strengthening and expanding higher education opportunities

Improving graduation rates at public colleges and universities

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

Protecting public higher education student information

Expanding the community college training incentive program

Relative to early college high schools

Relative to early college high schools

Creating a sexual assault climate survey for Massachusetts colleges and universities

Investing in public higher education

Relative to uniform financial aid information

Protecting public higher education student information

For reimbursement for costs of the learning contract

Establishing an education loan repayment program for social workers in areas of need

Creating a right to representation for college students in some school disciplinary matters

Relative to student’s rights in higher education

Relative to the right to counsel in disciplinary hearings

Resolutions supporting efforts to ensure that students from Massachusetts have access to debt-free higher education at public colleges and universities

Creating a sexual assault climate survey for Massachusetts colleges and universities

Concerning sexual violence on higher education campuses

Relative to college tuition and fees for veterans

Relative to the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program

To examine the advertising and lending practices of for-profit schools in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Relative to instate tuition

To improve management and accountability in the delivery of state services

Relative to performance-based funding for the public system of higher education

Relative to in-state tuition fairness

Relative to establishing a tuition free program for teachers and paraprofessionals

Relative to equal opportunity for high school graduates in the commonwealth

Designating a certain building at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design

To promote higher education among employees of human services provider organizations

To require disclosure of conflicts of interests in academic institutions

To expand UMMS class size and allow up to 25 non-Massachusetts residents

To provide a no pay for higher education law

Regarding tuition equity for high school graduates in the Commonwealth

Authorizing performance-based education funding

Creating a right to representation for college students in some school disciplinary matters

To establish a commission to study the feasibility of creating and funding a universal children’s savings account

To establish a finish line grant program to encourage college completion

To create a college savings program for every child born in Massachusetts

To Invest in Higher Education Faculty

Relative to uniform financial aid information

Relative to community college tuition

Making community colleges in Massachusetts free for residents of the state

Resolve establishing a special commission relative to reducing the costs associated with the purchase of college textbooks

Creating higher education opportunities for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities

To expand veterans survivor benefits

Eliminating Form 901 reporting requirement

Relative to public higher education

Relative to strengthening and expanding affordable, quality higher education opportunities for residents of the Commonwealth

To establish a commission to study a "Pay it Forward" model of higher education financing

Relative to fees at community colleges and state universities

Relative to public higher education transfers

Relative to breaking generational cycles of poverty

Providing tuition retention at the University of Massachusetts

Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to a more robust public higher education oversight structure

Establishing an education loan repayment program for social workers in areas of need

Establishing an education loan repayment program for social workers in areas of need

Relative to breaking generational cycles of poverty

Relative to the creation of the battlefield to STEM field incentive program

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

Relative to student’s rights in higher education

Authorizing Performance-Based Education Funding

Relative to nursing school articulation agreements

To promote higher education among employees of human services provider organizations

Providing coverage of educational expenses to deceased veterans

Relative to fees at community colleges and state universities

Relative to a law student loan repayment assistance program

Regarding higher education opportunities for high school graduates in the Commonwealth.

Providing full student representation on the Univeristy of Massachusetts Board of Trustees

Supporting access and excellence in public higher education

To improve management and accountability in the delivery of state services

Relative to establishing a tuition free program for teachers and paraprofessionals

Relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program in the public system of higher education

Relative to George V. Kenneally, Jr.

Creating a scholarship fund to increase the number of medical providers who are knowledgeable in autism

Providing full student representation on the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees

Relative to the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program

To maintain faculty and college excellence in the Commonwealth

Relative to tuition for U.S. veterans

Relative to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency

Relative to public higher education

Relative to breaking generational cycles of poverty

Relative to students serving in the military

Securing access to higher education for people with disabilities

Relative to program approval

Creating a scholarship fund to further the study of developmental disabilities

Establishing an education loan repayment program for social workers in areas of need

Establishing an education loan repayment program for social workers in areas of need

Relative to creating job opportunities through improving access to education, empowering vocational schools, and investment

Relative to preserving Polish heritage in the Pioneer Valley

Restricting the Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium from charging a fee for providing qualified bidders with electronic bid information

Regarding higher education opportunities for high school graduates in the commonwealth

Relative to establishing a finish line grant opportunity to encourage college completion

Eliminating Form 901 reporting requirement

Relative to establishing a tuition free program for teachers and paraprofessionals

To maintain faculty and college excellence in the Commonwealth

Relative to public higher education

Increasing grants and scholarships for public higher education students

Allowing the use of credit cards to pay tuition

To promote higher education among employees of human services provider organizations.

Providing coverage of educational expenses to deceased veterans

Providing tuition to children of state employees killed on duty.

Relative to the development of a Northeastern Massachusetts Nursing Institute.

Supporting access and excellence in public higher education

To establish a Master of Library Science assistance program.

Relative to extension.

Regarding higher education opportunities for high school graduates in the Commonwealth.

To form a commission on for-profit schools

Resolve establishing a special commission relative to reducing the costs associated with the purchase of college textbooks

Improving the educational rewards grant program to assist low income workers

Establishing an education loan repayment program for social workers in areas of need

Making faculty sabbatical provisions at state universities consistent with other higher education institutions

Establishing the Massachusetts higher education matching grants program

Relative to oversight of private occupational schools

Relative to student records coordination across public higher education institutions

Establishing a public health Lyme disease research institute at the University of Massachusetts Medical School

Nursing school articulation between degree granting programs of state and community colleges of the Commonwealth

That public school teachers be included in the tuition waiver program for public higher educational institutions

That the grants for public higher education be administered by the higher educational institutions

For an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) relative to the establishment of a Pioneer Valley Polish heritage institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

That certain fringe benefit costs shall not be paid from local trust funds at public institutions of higher education

Student fees assessed by public institutions of higher education

Establishing a higher education assistance pilot program

Establishing the John and Abigail Adams scholarship program

The John and Abigail Adams scholarship program

That the Board of Higher Education be required to provide Braille and electronic material to visually impaired students

That the Health and Educational Facilities Authority state college and the community college loan pool

Restrict the Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium from charging a fee for providing qualified bidders with electronic bid information

Revenue bonds issued by the Educational Facilities Authority

Encourage licensed social workers to work in child welfare and human services programs

Legislation to allow faculty sabbatical provisions at state colleges to be consistent with other higher education institutions