(WJAR) — The Maura Healey administration announced a bill on Tuesday that aims to modernize public higher education in Massachusetts. She made the announcement in Bridgewater at the campus of Bridgewater State University. The $2.5 billion bill will add capital improvements to the UMass System, state universities, and community colleges.

Gov. Maura Healey filed a $2.5 billion borrowing bill Tuesday that would dump cash into Massachusetts’ public higher education system to update aging infrastructure that the first-term Democrat argued has suffered from years of neglect.

Gov. Maura Healey is scheduled to make what her administration is calling a “major announcement” about funding for higher education in Massachusetts on Tuesday morning. The press conference and tour of the Bridgewater State University Cyber Range is scheduled for 11 a.

Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday announced a bill that will leverage millions of dollars raised by the Fair Share surtax to borrow up to $2.5 billion over the

The bill is the largest proposed investment in state universities including the UMass system and community colleges in decades. The post Healey commits $2.5 billion to modernizing Massachusetts’ public higher education campuses appeared first on Boston.

The plan will be bankrolled through Massachusetts' "Fair Share Tax."

Gov. Maura Healey announced a plan Tuesday to pump at least $2.5 billion into facilities at the University of Massachusetts, state universities and community colleges by the middle of the 2030s.