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The header of the official proposal from OU AAUP to add two faculty liaisons to OUs Board of Trustees.

OU AAUP formally request two faculty liaison be added to Board of Trustees

Jeff Thomas, Editor-in-Chief December 10, 2021

Ahead of Monday’s Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting, Oakland University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (OU AAUP) has sent a proposal to the administration formally requesting...

Newly appointed Board of Trustees member David Kramer.

Governor Whitmer appoints new member to OU Board of Trustees

Jeff Thomas, Editor-in-Chief December 7, 2021

In an email from OU Public Relations Specialist Eric Reikowski, The Post has learned that David Kramer has been appointed to the university's Board of Trustees (BOT). Here's the university's statement...

Its unclear how increase in universitys net position will benefit students

It’s unclear how increase in university’s net position will benefit students

Sarah Gudenau, Features Editor November 18, 2021

At the Board of Trustees (BOT) audit committee meeting last month, we learned Oakland University’s net position increased $71.6 million in fiscal year 2021 (FY21). What we don’t know is exactly how...

OU Founder Matilda Dodge Wilsons statue outside of the Oakland Center where last weeks BOT meeting was held. With relations between faculty and admins sure to play a role in OUs future, will admins respond to facultys request for a BOT liaison?

Faculty request BOT liaison, administrators actively nonresponsive to AAUP concerns

Jeff Thomas, Editor-in-Chief October 20, 2021

During the public comment portion of last Monday’s Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting, Oakland University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (OU AAUP) President Karen Miller urged...

The BOT met for an audit committee meeting on Monday, Oct. 11 before the formal session later that day. The primary purpose of the meeting was to review the draft financial statements for fiscal year 2021 (FY21). 

BOT audit committee meeting: OU’s net position increases $71.6 million in fiscal year ‘21

Sarah Gudenau, Features Editor October 20, 2021

On Monday, Oct. 11, 2021, prior to the Oakland University Board of Trustees (BOT) formal session later that afternoon, the BOT met in Banquet Room A of the Oakland Center for an audit committee meeting...

President Pescovitz alongside members of her cabinet and the Board of Trustees at Mondays BOT meeting.

Oct. 11 BOT meeting: research, investments and new faculty contract

Tanner Trafelet, Contributor October 13, 2021

On Oct. 11, the Oakland University Board of Trustees (BOT) met to discuss the acceptance of gifts and pledges to OU, to vote on the acceptance of union collective bargaining agreements from the OU Campus...

Chair of the Board of Trustees Robert Schostak at the most recent board formal session on Aug.12, 2021.

OU’s Board of Trustees appointment process

Tanner Trafelet, Contributor October 6, 2021

The most recent appointment of new members to Oakland University’s Board of Trustees (BOT) came with Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s 2020 appointment of Trina Scott and Reverend Joseph Jones to the board....

Chair of the Board of Trustees Tonya Allen at her last meeting sitting beside President Ora Pescovitz. With less than three weeks before students return to campus, the BOT hosted a meeting and discussed the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, faculty contract negotiations and  a new chair and vice chair.

August 12 BOT meeting: vaccination plan, new board chair and vice chair

Sarah Gudenau, Features Editor August 12, 2021

The Board of Trustees (BOT) met on Thursday, Aug. 12 in Ballroom A to discuss the university’s COVID-19 vaccination plan, board chair and vice chair elections and faculty negotiations.  President’s...

BOT raises tuition 4.2%, adds master’s programs

Lauren Karmo, Managing Editor June 23, 2021

A 4.2% increase in tuition rates was the focus of the Oakland University Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting on Monday, June 21. The additions of two new master’s programs and a report on alumni success...

JCPenney partners with OU to offer discounts, giveaways

Laurel Kraus, Managing Editor March 20, 2019

With both the Spring Career Fair on April 2 and graduation season approaching, the need for professional clothing may be on many to-do lists. The JCPenney Suit Up Event will take place after hours at...

Founders PC Pils stands above the rest

Founders’ ‘PC Pils’ stands above the rest

Sergio Montanez, Photographer January 23, 2019

Founders is perhaps the biggest brewery in Michigan, if not, at least the most famous in the state. And with Founders always adding new beers to its repertoire, it’s to no surprise they’re on top....

Letter to the editor: Presidential search committee

Barry S. Winkler, Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Sciences at Oakland University November 1, 2016

Dear Editor: It was just about one year ago when I expressed in The Oakland Post and at a Board of Trustees meeting my strong disappointment about the appointment of a chief operating officer (COO)...

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