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The Oakland Journal is designed to highlight the creative energies of the Oakland University community. It publishes articles representative of professional areas, creative writing, book reviews, reports, interviews, and round-table discussions written in an informative and intellectually stimulating format.
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Item The ABC’s of Law School(Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Sanchez-Murphy, Lauren; Cole, Natalie B.Although the juris doctor degree opens many doors and allows for the exploration of many different areas outside the basic study of the law, as a recent law school graduate, I would caution the uninitiated that law school may be the hardest work they have ever done.Item Abdul and Ivan Join the 21st Century(Oakland University, 2007-01-01) Wood, Susan; Folland, Sherman T.Susan Wood updates an old British military folk song with lyrics referring to modern United States politics.Item About Water: an Interview with Jerry Dennis, Author of The Living Great Lakes(Oakland University, 2013-01-01) Freeman, John; Greene, Janae; Haar, Catherine; Horning, Alice; Kraemer, Elizabeth W.; Shepherd, Gary; Walwema, Josephine; Cole, Natalie B.Jerry Dennis, a Traverse City resident and author of many books about nature and outdoor recreation, visited Oakland University on October 26 and 27, 2011 to speak about the Great lakes and his books, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martins Press, 2003) and The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes (University of Michigan Press, 2011). He spoke to the university community, and met with students in the Honors College and in the OU Writing Center, where he talked about working as a writer. In addition, a small group of faculty and students in the department of Writing and Rhetoric and from Kresge library and the Honors College interviewed Mr. Dennis about water issues and about his life as a working writer.Item “The Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time” A Study of Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet(Oakland University, 2001-10-01) Mitzelfeld, Pamela T.; Brieger, GottfriedContinuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty.Item The Academic Bill of Rights: Leadership in an Era of Legislative Oversight(Oakland University, 2005-10-01) Packard, SandraA non-binding resolution, the Academic Bill of Rights encourages all public institutions of higher education and those private institutions that present themselves as canons of academic freedom to establish an institutional Academic Bill of Rights, along with policies and procedures to protect students from indoctrination and to ensure faculty and institutional compliance with the principles of intellectual independence and diversity. Private institutions, such as Christian colleges, choosing to restrict academic freedom on the basis of creed are exempt, but they are encouraged to articulate their restrictions.Item An Academic Journey(Oakland University, 2007-10-01) Moudgil, Virinder K.; Nixon, Jude V.Item Academic Service Learning: Moving Your Students Outside of the Classroom-Literally(Oakland University, 2010-10-01) Smydra, Rachel; Cole, Natalie B.Many instructors are using social media to move students “out of the classroom” into virtual worlds; however, constructing a method to move students—literally—outside of the classroom exists as a viable option as well. As a pedagogical methodology, Academic Service Learning is more than an internship or experiential learning.Item An Acorn No More(Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Byrne, Bill; Cole, Natalie B.Why, after reading and grading countless college and high school composition papers lo these many semesters, would I become a “reader” for the College Board Advance Placement (AP) English Language and Composition exam?Item Adams and Jefferson: Personal Politics of the Early Republic(Oakland University, 2012-01-01) Conner, Robert; Cole, Natalie B.What led these two men who once worked so closely together to turn from close friends to bitter enemies in only ten years?Item Adams and Jefferson: Personal Politics of the Early Republic(Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Connor, John; Cole, Natalie B.The deterioration of the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson remains a controversial subject among historians.Item Administrators and Academic Values(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Garfinkle, David; Folland, Sherman T.What... is a professor at Oakland University to do in the face of an administration with weak academic values? The best advice seems to be that of Voltaire: “one must cultivate one’s own garden.” We must do our teaching and research regardless of the qualities of the administrators who claim to lead us.Item The American Family Saga in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Jonathan’s Franzen’s Freedom(Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Van Vliet, Jennifer; Cole, Natalie B.This essay focuses on two American family sagas from the early twenty-first century, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, both chosen for the diversity of gender constructions and sexual identities of their characters as well as for the “traditional” nature of their focal families.Item An Analysis of the Financial Crisis of 2008: Causes and Solutions(Oakland University, 2009-10-01) Murphy, Austin; Folland, Sherman T.The financial crisis in 2008 is of such epic proportions that even astronomical amounts spent to address the problem have so far been insufficient to resolve it.Item Anatomy of a Failure: The Detroit Public School System(Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Brieger, Gottfried; Cole, Natalie B.For a few short years in the 1920s, a remarkable coalition of the city financial elite, politicians of all stripes, and the unions, united behind school improvement, and the system flourished, at least financially. Then came the Depression, and the elite were the first to pull out. Since that time, there has been a continual conflict over control of the school system, with the State, the mayor, the city council, the school board, and the unions jockeying for power. Especially today, with an annual budget of over a billion dollars, the plum is well worth fighting over.Item And This the Latest!(Oakland University, 2001-10-01) Murphy, Brian; Brieger, GottfriedContinuation of a symposium on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, by Oakland University faculty.Item Archives(Oakland University, 2008-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Item Archives(Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Cole, Natalie B.Item Archives(Oakland University, 2008-10-01) Nixon, Jude V.Item Archives(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Item Archives(Oakland University, 2007-01-01) Folland, Sherman T.