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New Business Analytics Certificate Broadens  Education Programs at OU

New Business Analytics Certificate Broadens Education Programs at OU

Falin Hakeem, Staff Reporter August 1, 2017

Oakland University’s School of Business Administration is now offering a graduate certificate program in business analytics. The program is available beginning fall 2017. According to NG Data, business...

Police Files August 2

Shelby Tankersley, Editor-In-Chief August 1, 2017

Breaking into an old trailer A man called OUPD on July 12 to report a forced entry to the storage trailer that is parked on the southern end of campus where the Kettering Magnetic Lab used to be. The...

OU Named A Top Producer For Autonomous Vehicle Workers

OU Named A Top Producer For Autonomous Vehicle Workers

Mary Siring, Staff Intern June 29, 2017

The San Francisco Business Times reports that Oakland University is among the top five schools placing graduates in the autonomous vehicle field. As the automotive industry works to put self-driving...

Oakland University to offer Master’s in Systems Engineering Degree

Oakland University to offer Master’s in Systems Engineering Degree

Falin Hakeem, Staff Intern June 19, 2017

The industrial and systems engineering (ISE) department at Oakland University is now offering a Master’s in Systems Engineering program. According to Boston University, systems engineering enables...

The professor using her green screen to put herself in an explanation of neural function.

SECS professor creates world’s largest online learning course

AuJenee Hirsch, Editor-in-Chief June 6, 2017

Oakland University School of Engineering and Computer Science professor, Barbara Oakley, Ph.D,  created the world's largest massive open online course (MOOC). Oakley's course "Learning How to Learn"...

The Board of Trustees voted on arts, athletics and tuition at its meeting on June 5 in Elliott Hall.

Board of Trustees votes on tuition, arts and athletics

Shelby Tankersley, Editor-In-Chief June 6, 2017

The Oakland University Board of Trustees voted on a slew of things during its Monday, June 5 meeting. Among the topics were adding a Bachelor of piano performance and pedagogy, a Bachelor of dance education...

The new Southern Housing Complex will bring many new changes to residential life on campus

New Residence Hall Update

Christian Miller, Staff Reporter June 6, 2017

Approaching the groundbreaking ceremony on June 8, Oakland’s newest residence hall, the Southern Student Housing Complex, will drastically reshape the campus’s image. Projected to be completed and...

New specialization in film making added to cinema studies program

Trevor Tyle, Editor-in-Chief May 30, 2017

In addition to the many new changes happening on campus this year, the cinema studies program at Oakland University is adding a brand new Bachelor of Arts degree —specialization in filmmaking. According...

Oakland University Hosts 25th Meeting of Minds Conference

Oakland University Hosts 25th Meeting of Minds Conference

Mary Siring, Staff Intern May 28, 2017

Meeting of Minds (MOM) came to Oakland University for it's 25th year. The undergraduate research conference was held on Friday, May 12. OU was able to participate in the event as the host. “Though...

Ora Hirsch Pescovitz will be Oakland Universitys highest paid president to date..

Pescovitz set to make more than most Michigan university presidents

AuJenee Hirsch, Editor-in-Chief May 22, 2017

Since Ora Hirsch Pescovitz was announced as Oakland’s seventh president, the Oakland University Board of Trustees has negotiated a contract with her. The contract lists the responsibilities, benefits...

50 Years of OUPD

50 Years of OUPD

Laurel Kraus, Managing Editor May 18, 2017

In September of 2016 Oakland University was named the seventh safest large college campus in the country by college resource website College Choice. This year, the Oakland University Police Department...

Ora Hirsch Pescovitz will be Oakland Universitys highest paid president to date..

Oakland University’s new President announced

Shelby Tankersley, Editor-In-Chief May 4, 2017

A standing-room-only crowd at Oakland University welcomed its seventh president, Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, with applause and cheers Thursday, May 4. Pescovitz will become the second woman president...

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