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...
At 18, I arrived at Oakland University (OU) as a freshman in the Fall of 2020–amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. As a nontraditional student, being a multilingual immigrant from the Middle East, I was initially...
Recently the Oakland University community was informed that a beaver had moved into the campus’s biological preserve and made itself at home. Indeed, since that announcement, we’ve been able to confirm...
Free counseling at OU has experienced a progressive decline throughout the years, bringing the number of free sessions provided to students down to only 4, after which one needs to pay $20 in order to...
In the fall of 2021, I went through one of the lowest periods of my life. I had just gone through the breakup of an unhealthy relationship, I was fighting to take care of myself, and overall, I was struggling...
The topic of mental health has become a conglomerate of a discussion topic. It becomes even more so when the younger generations pick up the talking stick to join in on the conversation. However, I would...
