The Oakland University Board of Trustees will discuss student housing an a proposed parking structure at today's BOT meeting. The meeting will take place at 2 p.m. in Elliot Auditorium. See the full agenda for the meeting here. The meeting is open to everyone. The Oakland Post will live-Tweeting this meeting on Twitter.
The school is supposed to be a non-partisan university. But in the last year, we have had the political national spotlight shine on us twice — once when we hosted the Republican Presidential Debate last November and on Monday, when GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan came to campus for a rally.
Oakland University will receive $45 million in state aid and an additional one time $830,800 in tuition-rate bonus because of its 3 percent tuition increase for the 2012-13 school year.
Henry Baskin, former Oakland University Board of Trustees Chairperson, received a reprimand from the State of Michigan Attorney Grievance Board yesterday for the conflict of interest complaint brought against him by Robert Edick, deputy administrator of the Attorney Grievance Commission in April 2011. He is also required to pay all administrative costs and fees.
The accident took place by the Recreation Center. The student was hit while they were exiting Parking Lot 16 onto Pioneer Drive.
According to the Oakland University Police Department, the alarms went off because of dust going into one of the detectors.
The Pacemaker award is the highest honor a college newspaper can receive and is based on the following: coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, design, photography, art and graphics.
According to the OU bargaining diaries, the agreement will provide across-the-board pay increases, merit pay adjustments and benefit restructuring. It will extend for the next three years.
As of 12:30 a.m. Friday morning, there is still no update on the American Association of University Professors and Oakland University contract negotiations. The deadline for the 2009 faculty negotiations was midnight Friday.
Though both parties are having a difficult time negotiating, Miller said a strike is not part of their agenda. She said the AAUP is interested in having a calm, normal beginning of the semester and is hoping to solve all problems before walking into the classroom on Sept. 5.
The Oakland University website is back up after being down for several hours over the weekend because of hardware failure, Chief Information Officer Theresa Rowe said. The website’s outage was unplanned and was restored after Rowe submitted a tech report to IT officials at 8 a.m. this morning.
The building is part of the set for an upcoming Warner Bros. thriller about high school students documenting the aftermath of a tornado. It is being directed by Steven Quale.
The Oakland University website has been down for several hours after an unplanned outage, according to Chief Information Officer Theresa Rowe.
The Oakland University Board of Trustees passed a 2.96 percent increase for undergraduate tuition Monday afternoon.
The vehicle, which debuted September 2011, also starred in an Ok Go music video, bungee jumped off a building and was equipped with a robotic arm to paint a mural. Each stunt was a first time accomplishment for a car and was aimed to channel college students who are starting their lives and experiencing firsts of their own.
America, known for blind overconfidence and being the best at everything has been smashing records all year long. Setting extreme heat waves, creating The Expendables 2 and having the biggest presidential election to date, America is setting records left and right.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill authorizing $300 million in spending at Michigan universities today, including a $30 million allocation for the new engineering building at Oakland University, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Virinder Moudgil will not be leaving Oakland University empty-handed. Instead, he will be leaving with a lot of friends, memories and a new job.
Oakland University Board of Trustees Chairperson Henry Baskin pled no contest Thursday to the sexual misconduct charges that were made against him by Attorney Grievance Commission Deputy Administrator Robert Edick in August 2011.
Baskin has a June 1 hearing at the Detroit Disciplinary offices for the remaining charge — a conflict of interest — under the circumstances that there is a risk a personal relationship with a client may become problematic.
