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Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Greylock Federal promotes Brianna Lison to Branch Manager in Great Barrington
PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Greylock Federal Credit Union has announced the promotion of Brianna Lison to branch manager of its Great Barrington location. The promotion recognizes Lison's dedication to member service and professional growth since joining the credit union in 2019. Lison, a Pittsfield native, will oversee daily branch operations, lead an expanded team, and play a key role in business development and community engagement. Her responsibilities include branch compliance, mortgage and home equity loan origination, consumer loan underwriting, and the management of a broad range of member accounts. 'I am thrilled about Brianna's promotion,' said Jennifer O'Neil, Vice President and Market Manager. 'Since day one, Brianna has demonstrated a passion for delivering exceptional service and a drive to deepen her expertise in the credit union industry. I have every confidence she will continue to lead with care and commitment.' Lison began her career with Greylock as a branch specialist, working across multiple branches including Great Barrington, Lee, and Lenox. She completed the Greylock Management Academy and in 2024 earned her designation as a Certified Credit Union Financial Counselor (CCUFC), further equipping her to support the financial well-being of Greylock members. Reflecting on the promotion, Lison expressed gratitude and enthusiasm for the new role. 'It is a privilege to continue working alongside the incredible team here in Great Barrington,' she said. 'Every day, I strive to make a positive impact on our members' lives, and I look forward to growing these relationships and serving our community in this new capacity.' Greylock Federal Credit Union serves more than 90,000 members throughout Berkshire County and surrounding areas, offering a range of financial services with a focus on community-driven values. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Local Norway
14-02-2025
- Politics
- Local Norway
Norway minister open to changing unpopular PhD language requirement
Sigrun Gjerløw Aasland last week that the new requirement, which universities have until this August to implement, was something she was "already working on". "I certainly understand that there is dissatisfaction with them [the new rules]. "It is important to recognize that there are good reasons for their introduction. We want to build strong professional communities in Norway and preserve the Norwegian language. But we must ensure that we do so in a way that does not hinder internationalization." Pierre Lison, Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center (NR), who has been campaigning against the rule, told The Local that Aasland seemed "more receptive" to opposition from Norwegian researchers to the policy, which he complained was "poorly conceived" and "costly to implement". "We do hope that this language measure will be ultimately dropped. Our view is that universities should remain obliged to offer language training courses for their PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers, but that the employees should remain free to decide whether to enrol." The new law came into force in August last year, but universities have been given a year to implement it, meaning it will not directly affect researchers and PhD students until this coming August. The law requires all doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who do not speak Norwegian, Danish or Swedish to complete 15 study points of Norwegian language training, something Lison said would take an entire semester, or about three months, away from their research, and cost universities a considerable amount. "What we were reacting against is that it's not just a recommendation or an offer of language classes, but that it's an obligation for everyone, even for the many PhD students and postdocs that will continue their research career in another country than Norway when their fixed-term research contract expires,' he said. As well as the cost for universities, he said this would deter some top researchers from coming to work in Norway. "I can very well understand that they might not necessarily be interested in using three or four months for learning the basics of the language." Lison in December reported the law to the European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority along with the Association of Doctoral Researcher and the law firm Schjødt, arguing that it broke EFTA rules on the free movement of people. "We believe that it's basically a kind of employment protectionism, because the Ministry of Higher Education research is not providing any funds for organizing this to the universities, which basically means that every time a university wants to hire a foreign researcher, they are going to lose money in comparison to hiring a Norwegian or Nordic researcher." A spokesperson for the European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority told The Local that it had received the complaint and was currently waiting for answers from the Norwegian government to questions it had asked.
