Jillian Poland

Graphic by Kathleen Moore On Thursday, May 3, faculty were informed via email the University would be adopting a new pay period schedule that would require some professors to “return to the University any monies accrued as a result” of the change. The email was sent jointly from Erin Nechipurenko, assistant vice president of human resources, and Robert Donohue, president of the Framingham State chapter of the Massachusetts State College Association (MSCA).

FSU’s Information Technology Services (ITS) department plans to implement new “next-generation” spam-filtering software over the summer to combat an increase in spam emails, according to Mike Zinkus, director of systems and networking. For 12 years, the University has been using a system called the Barracuda Spam Firewall to combat spam. But now, ITS is exploring new options, such as Mimecast or Proofpoint, which Zinkus said are cloud-based and more advanced.

Graphic by Kathleen Moore The Massachusetts State College Association (MSCA), the faculty and librarian union for the state colleges and universities, ratified a second version of the 2017-2020 collective bargaining agreement March 29. The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is a document that outlines the conditions under which faculty and librarians agree to work.