Empowering students across Massachusetts higher ed institutions.
The Table seeks to build collective power to guarantee administrative transparency, student representation, and college affordability.
Our mission is to connect, coordinate, and empower higher ed organizers and student-led organizations across Massachusetts higher education institutions.
Our Goals.
Build a shared infrastructure to maintain student-led cross-constituency (faculty, staff, alumni, students) organizing.
Serve as a centralized hub for student and higher ed organizing across Massachusetts
Connect students doing parallel work so efforts are not duplicated, siloed, or lost
Connect students with other constituencies like faculty, staff, alumni, unions, and nonprofit organizers
Preserve institutional memory so that organizing knowledge and momentum endure beyond individual campaigns or academic years
Strengthen cross-campus strategy and effectiveness.
Share organizing strategies, tools, and best practices across campuses
Exchange messaging frameworks, research, and tactical resources to strengthen student-led efforts at both the campus and statewide levels
Coordinate collective action and public impact.
Align messaging and strategies across institutions
Develop shared narratives, campaigns, and actions (protests, surveys, reports, etc.) that elevate student priorities with administrators, policymakers, and the public
Build lasting student power
Cultivate relationships across campuses, within labor unions, faculty groups, and community organizations
Coach student leaders directly and connect them to training resources
Expand organizing capacity across institutions and issue areas statewide
Integrate student voices into systematic processes and emphasize the importance of intergenerational collaboration
Stop Trump’s Attack on Financial Aid and Academic Freedom in Massachusetts
Donald Trump is escalating threats to strip our colleges and universities — from UMass Amherst to Northeastern to MIT to Wellesley — Title IV financial aid if they refuse to comply with his ideological demands about what can be taught and what students and faculty can say. If Trump succeeds, millions of students could lose access to the financial aid they rely on and see college pushed further out of reach.
The nation’s accreditation committee is considering these dangerous proposed rules right now. And our state has a chance to help the national movement to stop them.
As we build this movement across the state, the first step we are asking of all students, faculty, you to sign this petition to the accreditation committee demanding that they oppose these draconian proposals and go on the record —alongside thousands across the country — to defend financial aid, academic freedom, and democracy.
Losing even a semester of federal aid would devastate students, families, and institutions. We cannot let political coercion determine who gets access to higher education.
Sign the petition. Add your voice to save financial aid, push back on authoritarianism, and build a multiracial democracy that works for all.