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Vision Project Twitter Photo Contest

*The #Memo2MA Twitter contest ended on November 14. Congratulations to our winner, Northern Essex Community College! View some of the best tweets from the contest on Storify.


Cover of Degrees of Urgency report

Download a copy of Degrees of Urgency and view a introductory presentation from the 2014 release event here.

Degrees of Urgency: Why Massachusetts Needs More College Graduates Now is the third Vision Project annual report, released Tuesday, October 28, 2014. The cover story, entitled “Memo to Massachusetts,” draws attention to a perfect storm of factors...

...that make excellence in public higher education, and the support needed to achieve it, a more urgent priority than ever.

We are inviting campus colleagues to join us in delivering this “Memo to Massachusetts” through a Twitter photo contest. Download one (or all) of our #Memo2MA signs and start earning points!

#Memo2MA

How to Participate

  1. Review the PDF #Memo2MA Twitter Photo Contest guidelines. You must tag your campus to collect points, and be sure to look at the opportunities for bonus points—all the info is in the guidelines.
  2. Download a poster (or all of them at once) below.
  3. Start snapping around your campus!

Posters

New (11/5/14)! PDF Download a blank poster to add your own #Memo2MA drawn from Degrees of Urgency!


Click a poster below to download the PDF or click here to download all the posters at once.

Memo2MA: Massachusetts ranks 46th in the nation in funding for need-based financial aid
Graduates of our public colleges & universities from the backbone of  Massachusetts' workforce
We must close achievement gaps so everyone has access to good-paying jobs in high-need fields
We need to help low-income males enroll and succeed in college
More employers than ever are requiring college degrees
More than half of undergrads in MA are attending a public college or university
National leadership in K-12 education is not enough to secure Massachusetts' future
We need to help older adults enroll and succeed in college
Other states are producing more high-need graduates than MA
We need to help public colleges & universities scale up ideas that are working
Since 2008, Massachusetts has cut funding for higher education at 2x the rate of the top 10 states
We need to help veterans enroll and succeed in college