Oakland Journal Number 11: Fall 2006
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Item Item Table of Contents(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.Oakland Journal Issue 11 table of contentsItem Statement of Purpose(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.Oakland Journal Issue 11 statement of purposeItem Editor's Notes(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Folland, Sherman T.Oakland Journal Issue 11 editorial notesItem Bigger/Better: Enrollment and Oakland University’s Vision 2010(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Connery, Brian; Folland, Sherman T.Oakland University's enrollment and providing a quality education.Item Retirement Activity(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Ozinga, James; Folland, Sherman T.An Oakland University professor finds a new career in retirement.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 Words, Words, Words(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Byrne, Bill; Folland, Sherman T.While we may have left our “point and grunt” days behind us when we emerged from the caves and started walking upright, we haven’t yet mastered so many elements of communication.Item The Curse of the Were-Bureaucrat or How I realized that I had finally joined the older generation and become one of them(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Wood, Susan; Folland, Sherman T.Every now and then the faculty and administrators of this beloved institution, with the noblest intentions in the world, establish a task force designed to make us a sleeker, newer, more modern, efficient and elegant institution, prepared to progress boldly into the 21st century. And every time, it seems to my jaded eyes that the results are sadly ephemeral.Item A French Playwright of the Mid Century:(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) McKenna, Charles; Folland, Sherman T.An essay on the playwright Samuel Beckett,originally written in French by Charles McKenna, and translated into English by Emerita Professor of French Dolores Burdick.Item Poems: #41, A Day After, and Grey(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Rice, Gerald; Folland, Sherman T.PoetryItem The Dismal Scientist: The Academic Researcher and Father Time(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Folland, Sherman T.The subject is academic research productivity.Item One Note: Two Poets, Three Books(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Murphy, Brian; Folland, Sherman T.Both Tom Fitzsimmons and Amy Clampitt celebrate life and love with an ecstatic lilt.Item A Cautionary Tale or How and Why an Easy-Going Instructor Turned Mean(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) McQueen, Cathy; Folland, Sherman T.A series of email exchanges between a student and professor.Item Beyond Biology: A Statistician’s Perspective(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Khattree, Ravindra; Folland, Sherman T.The relationship between genetics research and statisticsItem Circo rois—che bella vita! a Philip Singer film reviewed by Peter Bertocci(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Bertocci, Peter J.; Folland, Sherman T.A review of the film "Circo Rois - Che Bella Vita!", by Philip SInger.Item Let Me Take You Down in a Cyn Sandwich: The Profoundly Paradoxical Mind of John Lennon Part I: Eight books on John Lennon reviewed by Brian Murphy(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Murphy, Brian; Folland, Sherman T.The first of a two-part series of reviews of books on the subject of John Lennon.Item Contributors(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.Oakland Journal issue 11 contributors listItem Archives(Oakland University, 2006-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.