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The Oakland Post

A Trusted Source of Independent Student Journalism since 1987.

The Oakland Post

OU Special Lecturer Chris Dingwall.

Letter to the editor: Refund student tuition

Chris Dingwall, Contributor January 31, 2022

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...

Oakland University Professor of English Jeffrey Insko.

Letter to the editor: Does the BOT practice what it preaches?

Jeffrey Insko, Contributor January 28, 2022

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...

Letter to the editor: My feelings about Oxford

Joey Colby, Contributor December 4, 2021

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...

Oakland University Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing Annette Gilson.

Letter to the editor: The American cult of selfishness

Annette Gilson, Contributor November 30, 2021

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...

Letter to the editor: What I’ve seen from the administration in my first semester at OU

Tyler Gallagher, Contributor November 29, 2021

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...

Professor Kate Roff.

Letter to the editor: In support of the Affordable Course Materials Initiative

Kate Roff, Contributor November 29, 2021

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,...

Professor Jo Reger.

Letter to the editor: I support the affordable materials initiative

Jo Reger, Contributor November 24, 2021

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...

A screen cap of President Ora Hirsch Pescovitz's Nov. 19 OU update video.

Letter to the editor: About that Dining Table

Andrea Knutson, Contributor November 24, 2021

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...


Director of Executive Platform- Oakland University Student Congress, Jeremy Johnson

Letter to the editor: We Are Told to Be Grateful

Jeremy Johnson, Contributor November 24, 2021

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...

OUSC posters promoting their new campaign to make college more affordable for OU students.

Letter to the editor: Oakland University, Trash the Textbooks and Invest in YOUR Students

Oakland University Student Congress, Contributor November 23, 2021

To the Oakland University Community, Overview - Why this petition matters The absurd cost of textbooks and other course materials at Oakland University (OU) has remained unaddressed and overlooked...

Letter to the editor: What’s a university for? Part two

Robert Anderson, Contributor November 22, 2021

Most people know Mary Wollstonecraft as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a book that blazed a trail for later feminists. She was also a theorist of what we might call ideology—the...

Letter to the editor: Administrator response to Oakland Post net position article

Dawn Aubry & James Hargett, Contributor November 22, 2021

Dear Oakland Post editors,  We appreciate the opportunity to provide further clarity in light of your recent article, entitled “It’s unclear how increase in university’s net position will benefit...

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