Staff represented by Oakland University Custodial Maintenance Trades (OUCMT) are demanding a contract that reflects the real value of staff work.
Workloads have increased. Campus square footage has...
To the Oakland University Community and Our Neighbors:
We write as faculty at Oakland University, and as members of Oakland’s Native American Advisory Committee not only to alert our immediate, campus...
The Age of AI has commenced; Oakland University is pursuing construction of a new data center on campus. Now what? As a former OU adjunct/instructor (twelve years total) and long-time CASE-OU (Campus Alliance...
Three years after the cancellation of the East Campus Development project, our campus is once again faced with a massive construction project that defies our university values and harms several aspects...
As a Black man and a student leader at Oakland University, I am deeply disturbed by the ongoing demonization of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices by certain factions within the federal government....
Hello, my name is Jeff Thomas. I graduated from OU in spring 2022. In my senior year as an undergrad, I served as editor-in-chief of Volume 47 of The Oakland Post. During the 2021-22 school year, as a...
In an effort to deal with the “déjà vu all over again” feelings I too have been having over the past few weeks, I re-read the letter I wrote during OU faculty’s last bargaining session, in 2021....
Oakland was founded on a promise — that young people of southeastern Michigan, particularly those who would be their family’s first college graduates — will have access to a quality education that...
Students and the rest of the Oakland University community may be following the negotiations underway between Oakland University and the Oakland University chapter of the American Association of University...
I’m an English professor today because of Brooke Hopkins. I remember sitting in his Shakespeare class talking about King Lear and feeling the ground beneath my feet shift. I don’t know how many courses...
It’s late August, and with just days before the start of the Fall semester, Oakland University faculty are — once again — fighting for a fair contract; as famed baseball coach Yogi Berra might have...
So faculty are bargaining again…
The faculty union has been back at the bargaining table for the past three months, trying to negotiate a fair contract with our administration. Our contract determines...
