Friendship is one of the most important yet most overlooked aspects of life. Society as a whole can get so caught up in a state of constant distraction that social life can become pushed to the side. This...
These are dark times for those who think the humanities, and the study of poetry in particular, are at the core of the mission of higher education.
With the current focus on providing what looks like...
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...
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...
