Please use our letter campaign to urge your Massachusetts legislators to support more financial aid funding! An amendment to the Senate budget would increase the financial aid expansion by $10 million, getting closer to level funding from last year and giving students the aid they need to continue their education. We need as much momentum as possible to get this through!

UMass administration, along with other state schools, announced that tuition must increase to keep up with inflation, despite not increasing financial aid investment as well. Since the state has not committed to increasing financial aid, this is making our public colleges more expensive for all UMass students!

The excuse of inflation does not make sense either: if tuition increased based on inflation alone for the last 40 years, it would only be around $5,000 rather than today’s $17,000.

162,930 students across Massachusetts attended public institutions in 2024 and many of them depend on the financial assistance provided by the MASSGrant and MASSGrant Plus programs. In order to ensure bright students across the Commonwealth can continue to afford our public colleges without taking on excessive debt or working multiple jobs, please urge your legislators to support increasing financial aid funding!