Community News

6/17/2020

Dear FSU Members,     

Thursday, 12:00 to 1:30   (contact the FSU office for Zoom meeting information)

In response to queries from members, the FSU will host a discussion about the broad issues of policing and police unions, including complex questions of defunding, demilitarization, and disbanding that have emerged in response to events both nationally and on our own campus.  Prior to opening the discussion, we will start with interventions from:

6/15/2020

Dear FSU Members,      Thursday, 12:00 to 1:30   Zoom (contact the FSU office or Steve Striffler for Zoom information): 

In response to queries from members, the FSU will host a discussion about the broad issues of policing and police unions, including complex questions of defunding, demilitarization, and disbanding that have emerged in response to events both nationally and on our own campus.  Prior to opening the discussion, we will start with interventions from:

6/15/2020

Greetings, Colleagues.

Cognitive Dissonance: Last Monday afternoon I found myself in a strange place, toggling between two different meetings on zoom at the same time.  One was the weekly meeting at of the Academic Continuity Task Force, on which I serve as the faculty representative from CLA.  In this group, meant to represent the entire UMB community, we warmly treat each other as colleagues working on a shared mission: we have even begun sharing ideas and documents on (Microsoft) Teams! 

6/11/2020

Dear FSU Members,

Below is a letter from UMB Professor Reyes Coll-Tellechea regarding an important issue that many of you may have seen in the Boston Globe.  She is looking for signatures/support and we thought this might interest many of you.

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Colleague, below is a letter addressed to Milton Public Schools Board for your review and consideration

6/9/2020

Dear FSU Members,

The attached is a statement from the Executive Council of UMass Boston’s Black Faculty, Staff, and Student Association regarding the recent violence against African Americans and structural racism.