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Getting to The Point

1/30/2025

Greetings, Colleagues!

Welcome back!

What can we say? If you are reading this, at least take the opportunity to have it remind you to relax your shoulders and unclench your jaw.

I have been responsible for writing the Point, this weekly email blast for the FSU, for years now—on my own for quite awhile and in the past year or so as part of an ad hoc communications committee.  Under my name and then as the product of this ad hoc committee, the Point has taken on as its mission the job of trying to help keep FSU members updated on matters of broad political, academic, and cultural interest.  In the past year, we have also tried to recruit more FSU members to take a turn writing the weekly column. 

What that means is that in addition to the usual voices of our committee (as here and here and here, for instance) we have been lucky enough to benefit from the academic expertise and personal wisdom of colleagues from across campus, as with Professor Suha Ballout’s crucial and moving work on how to support members of the campus community during a time of war and Professor Christopher Martell’s passionate argument in favor of ballot question 2 last election season.  These colleagues worked closely with our ad hoc committee members (and with final approval of the FSU executive committee) to develop these pieces and in doing so, offered members access to a kind of episodic labor-based education that we think academic unions should be in the business of providing.

Which brings us to you!

Do you have an academic/labor issue you have been burning to write about?  Are you interested in pitching an idea for the Point that you want to develop with our help?  We are officially open for business!  Please write us at fsu@umb.edu with “The Point” in the subject line and brief summary of what you would like to write about.

In Solidarity,

The Point Committee