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OU faculty contract negotiations: Workload, salary increase and special lecturer status

OU faculty contract negotiations: Workload, salary increase and special lecturer status

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor July 24, 2024

Contract negotiations between The Oakland University American Association of University Professors (OU-AAUP) and the OU administration began on June 4 to renew the 2021-2024 agreement for at least three...

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OU-AAUP hosts first bargaining kickoff ahead of contract negotiations

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor April 24, 2024

The Oakland University American Association of University Professors (OU-AAUP) held its first Bargaining Kickoff event to gather and celebrate the support for the upcoming bargaining season.  On April...

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...

Picketers gathered near the Squirrel Road entrance of OU on the first day of classes on Thursday, Sept. 2.

My experience walking the AAUP picket lines

Tanner Trafelet, Contributor September 8, 2021

The heavily covered contract negotiations between Oakland University administration and the OU American Association of University Professors (AAUP) resulted in two days of missed classes for students....

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