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.

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.

Governor Healey announced a bond bill that will be the largest infrastructure investment in the public higher education system in decades.

A new $2.5 billion plan will modernize public universities and colleges across Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday.