Browsing Oakland Journal Number 11: Fall 2006 by Title
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Administrators and Academic Values
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)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 ... -
Archives
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Beyond Biology: A Statistician’s Perspective
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)The relationship between genetics research and statistics -
Bigger/Better: Enrollment and Oakland University’s Vision 2010
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)Oakland University's enrollment and providing a quality education. -
A Cautionary Tale or How and Why an Easy-Going Instructor Turned Mean
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)A series of email exchanges between a student and professor. -
Circo rois—che bella vita! a Philip Singer film reviewed by Peter Bertocci
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)A review of the film "Circo Rois - Che Bella Vita!", by Philip SInger. -
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)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 ... -
The Dismal Scientist: The Academic Researcher and Father Time
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)The subject is academic research productivity. -
A French Playwright of the Mid Century:
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)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. -
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)The first of a two-part series of reviews of books on the subject of John Lennon. -
One Note: Two Poets, Three Books
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)Both Tom Fitzsimmons and Amy Clampitt celebrate life and love with an ecstatic lilt. -
Retirement Activity
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)An Oakland University professor finds a new career in retirement. -
Statement of Purpose
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)Oakland Journal Issue 11 statement of purpose -
Words, Words, Words
(Oakland University, 2006-10-01)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.