College leaders raise alarm on budget cuts - Boston Globe

The presidents and chancellors of the 29 public colleges in Massachusetts are asking the House of Representatives not to make a proposed 13 percent cut in public funding for the system. They reminded lawmakers that cuts over the past five years to the state’s system are the nation’s deepest. In a letter that was also signed by Higher Education Commissioner Richard Freeland, they said state support for the University of Massachusetts and for state and community colleges has declined 37 percent over two years as both enrollment and applications saw “substantial increases.’’