The Wrong Project for the Wrong Time
Over the past several weeks, we the Steering Committee of the Campus Alliance for Sustainability and the Environment (CASE-OU), have been learning more about the...
I have been fortunate to have served as a member of the AAUP bargaining teams in 1994, 1997, 2000, and then as chief negotiator for the AAUP in 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015. During this time, I’ve witnessed...
One month into the war, NATO and the United States seem committed to sending military equipment to Ukraine and imposing significant sanctions on Russia. Press briefings, official statements, and countless...
Steffan Puwal, PhD
Special Lecturer &
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Physics
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” After...
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...
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....
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...
On October 14, Joshua Merchant, Oakland University’s mysterious Chief of Staff, sent an email to the faculty announcing the appointment of Joi Cunningham as the university’s new Vice Provost for Human...
When my oldest son was three, we happened to see his beloved day-care teacher at the grocery store. We were surprised at his reaction. When we dropped him off at the day care, he ran to her. At the store,...
I write this article out of necessity. We aren’t having an important conversation about the attack on women’s reproductive healthcare. I want to start this off with a trigger warning, I am going to...
