To: The Massachusetts State House, The Massachusetts State Senate, and Governor Charlie Baker
Lower Middlesex Community College Tuition
We, as a collective force of students from multiple backgrounds, have come together and written the following demands for our college to implement immediately. Please sign on to have your voice heard in this movement. Tuition hikes impact every student on our campus.
Why is this important?
Middlesex Community College cannot continue to sideline students with tuition hikes. We want an affordable education, transparency regarding where our tuition dollars are going, and student voting power in the Board of Trustees to keep our administration accountable. Tuition acts as a filter of collegiate student candidates, separating out those who can afford to pay large amounts of money to attend school each year from those who cannot. It is unfair to create divides in this way and let people be disadvantaged due to their financial situation.
Our demands boil down to three main points - affordability, transparency, and accountability:
1. Affordability
We want a promise that tuition will not rise for the next 5 years until questions of Affordability, Transparency, and Accountability can be answered.
2. Transparency
We want to know where our money is going with a clear tuition breakdown that can be understood by both students and parents.
3. Accountability
Student Involvement: We want students to be involved in important decision-making that affects us. We hope to achieve this through the appointment of a student trustee who has voting power. We need Student-Administrative oversight to keep our university accountable to us.
Our demands boil down to three main points - affordability, transparency, and accountability:
1. Affordability
We want a promise that tuition will not rise for the next 5 years until questions of Affordability, Transparency, and Accountability can be answered.
2. Transparency
We want to know where our money is going with a clear tuition breakdown that can be understood by both students and parents.
3. Accountability
Student Involvement: We want students to be involved in important decision-making that affects us. We hope to achieve this through the appointment of a student trustee who has voting power. We need Student-Administrative oversight to keep our university accountable to us.