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Campus Communications released information about medical and religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccination mandate this afternoon.

OU offering medical and religious vaccine exemptions

Lauren Reid, Content Editor August 26, 2021

Earlier this week, Oakland University announced all students planning to attend in-person classes and/or university activities, along with faculty and staff working on-campus or at off-site locations,...

Some of the Moderna vaccine made available by the OU administration. The universitys is now mandating vaccination for the campus community.

Students share why they got vaccinated against COVID-19

Gabrielle Abdelmessih, Editor-in-Chief August 26, 2021

While COVID-19 vaccines are now mandated for all students, faculty and staff, many students had already chosen to get vaccinated prior to the mandate. In Oakland County, 56% of the population is fully...

Oakland University Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering Michael Latcha.

Letter to the editor: destroying a university, 101

Michael Latcha, Contributor August 26, 2021

If you wish to learn how a thriving university can be systematically dismantled and torn apart, then look around you. Our faculty and student body work to create a vibrant, growing and exciting university...

More students share their thoughts on vaccine mandate

More students share their thoughts on vaccine mandate

Gabrielle Abdelmessih, Editor-in-Chief August 25, 2021

On August 23, President Ora Pescovitz announced that all students, faculty and staff are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The mandate, an extension of other infection prevention measures like...

Oakland University Associate Professor of English Alison Powell.

Letter to the editor: Contract negotiations, the bond between professors and students

Alison Powell, Contributor August 24, 2021

Dear Grizzlies:  Like the word “gerrymandering,” the phrase “contract negotiations” seems designed to make you tune out. Don’t. What’s happening in the contract negotiations between Oakland’s...

Some of the Moderna vaccine made available by the OU administration. The universitys is now mandating vaccination for the campus community.

OU expands vaccine mandate to include all who learn and work on campus

Jeff Thomas, Editor-in-Chief August 23, 2021

In a letter from President Ora Hirsch Pescovitz released this afternoon, Oakland University announced that all students and employees on campus are now required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The new...

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

Letter to the editor: OU administration falling short of Matilda Dodge Wilson’s vision

Annette Gilson, Contributor August 23, 2021

I’m writing to address the troubling issues facing OU. I’ve been teaching here in the Department of English since 1999. For 22 years, I’ve had the privilege of learning with talented and inspiring...

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OU faculty, student workers concerned about return to campus

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

Amid surging COVID-19 cases fueled by the Delta Variant, faculty members and student workers are voicing their criticisms of the university’s proposed return to campus for the fall semester. Many of...

Some of the Moderna vaccine made available by the OU administration. The universitys is now mandating vaccination for the campus community.

Should OU mandate COVID-19 Vaccinations? Students share their thoughts.

Gabrielle Abdelmessih, Editor-in-Chief August 20, 2021

As of August 20, Oakland University has established a vaccine mandate for students living on campus in the fall and a mask mandate for students, staff and faculty regardless of vaccination status. In contrast...

Oakland United Student Workers Coalition posing for a picture before a protest earlier this summer.

Letter to the editor: Two Universities, One Playbook: How University Administrations Dismiss Worker Issues

OUSWC & GW PSU, Contributor August 19, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, George Washington University (GWU) planned to make large cuts to the University which would make it less accessible to working class students and students of color. GW PSU...

Oakland University Associate Professor of English Andrea Knutson.

Letter to the editor: contract negotiations, a bridge ready to collapse

Andrea Knutson, Contributor August 16, 2021

I’m a member of Oakland University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and while our bargaining team undergoes contract negotiations (happening now during a temporary extension...

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...

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