We seek to build collective power to guarantee administrative transparency, student representation, and college affordability.

Who We Are

The MA Higher Ed Table’s 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