With around 100 institutions of higher education in the Greater Boston area, the decision could have a massive impact on the hundreds of thousands of college students that call Boston home.
According to BirdCast, a migration tracker through The Cornell Lab, roughly 1,000 birds crossed over Suffolk County on Tuesday night as part of this fall's yearly migration.
WBUR reporter Deborah Becker spent the day in the area on Monday, and talks with us about what she saw. Plus, state Sen. Nick Collins, who represents the 1st Suffolk District, joins us to discuss what state aid could or should look like.