Stronger Together: Unions and Students Ally to Fight Higher Fees
Fall 2015
By Jennifer Berkshire, Union News editor
The message delivered to UMass Board of Trustees on September 16 couldn’t have been clear: fee increases are akin to “digging an ever-deeper well of student debt.” But the messengers weren’t just students. Instead, an alliance of students, faculty and staff, all working together to tell university administrators: “enough.”