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OU faculty and administration reach tentative agreement to avoid strike

OU faculty and administration reach tentative agreement to avoid strike

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor September 3, 2024

Hours before the start of the Fall semester, the Oakland University American Association of University Professors (OU AAUP) and the Oakland University Bargaining Team reached a tentative agreement to avoid...

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Letter to the Editor: OU’s upper administration is jeopardizing the university’s future

Jeffrey Thomas, Contributor September 3, 2024

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...

Letter to the Editor: President Pescovitz, please be OU's new Matilda Dodge Wilson

Letter to the Editor: President Pescovitz, please be OU’s new Matilda Dodge Wilson

Annette Gilson, Contributor September 1, 2024

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....

OU faculty contract negotiations: Merit scores, universal workload and a potential strike

OU faculty contract negotiations: Merit scores, universal workload and a potential strike

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor August 30, 2024

Negotiations continue between the Oakland University Bargaining Team and the Oakland University American Association of University Professors (OU-AAUP) with the faculty contract extended until Sept. 3.   After...

Letter to the Editor: Merit pay systems. What they are supposed to be versus what we get.

Letter to the Editor: Merit pay systems. What they are supposed to be versus what we get.

Ken Mitton, Contributor August 30, 2024

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...

Letter to the Editor: Not Worth It

Letter to the Editor: Not Worth It

Robert Anderson, Contributor August 29, 2024

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...

Letter to the Editor: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

Letter to the Editor: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

Joanne Lipson Freed, Contributor August 29, 2024

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...

Letter to the editor: I love working at OU, but the faculty need fair pay

Letter to the editor: I love working at OU, but the faculty need fair pay

Annette Gilson, Contributor August 27, 2024

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...

A conversation with OU-AAUP President, Michael Latcha

A conversation with OU-AAUP President, Michael Latcha

Arianna Heyman, Editor-in-Chief December 6, 2023

In May of 2024, Oakland University administration and Oakland University’s Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (OU-AAUP) will begin faculty contract renegotiations.  In 2021,...

Oakland University and OU AAUP faculty have both filed Unfair Labor Practice charges against each other in recent weeks.

University, OU AAUP file Unfair Labor Practice charges against each other

Jeff Thomas, Editor-in-Chief March 7, 2022

Oakland University and the faculty union Oakland University’s Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (OU AAUP) have both filed Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges against each other...

A view of OU AAUP supporters picketing during the job action that disrupted the start of the 2021 fall semester.

Campus workforce responds to AAUP allegations of university bad-faith bargaining

Jeff Thomas, Editor-in-Chief February 7, 2022

In January, Oakland University’s Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (OU AAUP) leadership released a letter they’d sent to President Ora Hirsch Pescovitz and the Board of Trustees...

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...

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