2/20/2026

Dear Members and Non-Members,

We are pleased to share with you the first issue of our new FSU Newsletter. Not sure if you’re a member? Contact us and ask!

Warm regards, your FSU Executive Committee

2/19/2026

As always, this edition of The Point represents the views of its authors (this week, The Point collective) and does not represent the official position of the FSU.

2/18/2026

Dear Member,

How do you get to campus? Do you ever drive & park on campus?  Do you take the T? 

Our UMB campus unions have been fighting for years to lower the parking rates and raise MBTA subsidies for all UMB community members– students, staff, faculty and librarians-- which most other Boston-based colleges and many public agencies have already done.

2/12/2026

Dear Faculty and Librarians,

This morning the GIC commissioners voted to postpone action on benefit design changes which are the increases in our deductibles, co-pays, premiums, and to continue covering critical prescriptions such as GLP-1s.

How did this happen?  You. Everyone who sent an email to the GIC and to legislators urging them not to raise the rates.

The commissioners acknowledged receiving over 450 pages of emails.  One commissioner specifically mentioned the number of state legislators who contacted them to vote no.

2/12/2026

This week’s Point was written by Jeff Melnick of the American Studies Department, and former vice-president of the FSU. As always, The Point represents the views of the author and is not the official position of the FSU.

It is a truism, but one worth repeating to ourselves, that we are living in particularly challenging times.