Some time ago, I put a yellow and blue Ukrainian flag on my house in Rochester Hills. A neighbor walking her dog asked me: “I like that flag; we googled the colors already. Are you from Ukraine?”
Despite...
I hope you are watching. There is a tragedy unveiling in the middle of Europe. A dictator that poisons and imprisons its own people is now moving his armies to strangle a fledgling democracy that believes...
In recent days we have witnessed a turning point in history. An authoritarian regime in Russia has taken aggressive steps that threaten sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, a rising democracy....
On Friday afternoon, the Detroit News reported that Oakland University had mistakenly informed 5500 students that they received Platinum Presidential Scholar Awards. This is just the university's most...
Like many of my colleagues, I was deeply disappointed this week by the Oakland Board of Trustees’ dismissal of the AAUP’s request to appoint a faculty liaison to the Board. That decision constitutes...
A wise and illustrious woman once stated that “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” The paralyzation by our legislatures from the act of domestic terrorism in Oxford bring...
Here in the U.S., we are taught to value wealth above most things. Wealth confers distinction on people. It makes them famous, lovable, admirable; it often puts them above the law. It doesn’t much matter...
Dear the OU community
Today, I want to start by talking about some of the recent blunders the administration has done since my time here as a freshman. Firstly, President Pescovitz's house tour video...
To the Oakland University Community,
Returning to teach in-person has been, for both my students and myself, an enormous exercise in trust. Trust that others will get COVID tested when they need to,...
To the Oakland University Community,
I am writing to support the recent Trash the Textbook initiative and petition from OU’s Student Congress and to share my story of using a low-cost open access...
About that Dining Table
By Andrea Knutson and Chaturi Edrisinha with special contributions from Jeremy Johnson, Speaker of the Legislature for OUSC and a staff member who prefers to remain anonymous.
Dear...
Throughout the last year and several months, the relationship between the Oakland University administration and the OU community has been fundamentally dismantled. At almost every turn, our administration...
