OU adds classrooms in Mount Clemens
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OU expands in Macomb County
BY ANDREW CRAIG OU News Bureau Oakland University is extending its reach 24 miles to the east and launching a satellite campus in the heart of downtown Mount Clemens. With this move into the state’s third most-populous county, the university hopes to: Extend the presence of OU. Create the Anton/Frankel Center, the first of its [...]
Transfer students sound off about OU
BY MEGAN ROCHON OU NEWS BUREAU Four out of every 10 undergraduate students transferred to Oakland University from somewhere else. Those transfers provide a steady stream of incoming students for OU, with two-thirds coming from community colleges and the remainder from four-year institutions, said Laura Schartman, director of OU office of Institutional Research and Assessment. [...]
Chic bleak for indie record stores
BY RAY ANDRE OU News Bureau The doors to Todd Fundaro’s 28-year-old music shop, Flipside Records in Clawson, are almost completely covered with fliers for upcoming local concerts. The scent of the store, an unburned incense, is as much a part of its character as its merchandise. “There’s just something about the individuality of an [...]
No spring break for these OU students
BY EMILY WEITZ OU News Bureau While some students spent spring break lounging on the beach with friends, other Oakland University students spent the time working with community service projects around the country with the Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program. Each year, ASB teams with campus organizations to assist with service projects. This year, groups [...]
More cameras will keep an eye on OU’s campus
BY JEN BUCCIARELLI OU News Bureau Nearly 50 security cameras will sprout across Oakland University’s campus this summer in a crime prevention effort that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The university is not alone in relying on security cameras, although the reason it uses them — crime prevention — differs from why a [...]
Tiny pest poses giant threat
ANDREW CRAIG OU News Bureau Seven billion ash trees face annihilation by a menace the size of Abe Lincoln’s head — not the one on Mount Rushmore, but the one on the face of a penny. The emerald ash borer is a wood-boring beetle native to Asia and an invasive species in North America. The [...]