[letter to Karen Miller, Professor of History at Oakland University]

Dr. Miller,

I was a student of yours several summers ago (I took your course on the history of the Vietnam War) and would like to let you know that I think it’s great that the faculty is finally taking the administration to task. Administrators need to realize that there would be no university to administer without students and faculty. Sadly, both are regularly treated as little more than revenue streams and variable annual costs, respectively. For this reason I left Oakland University and will be graduating from James Madison College at MSU this December with a B.A. in International Relations and History. I think it’s absolutely tragic that I will likely be making the same (or more) than many of the professors who taught me while I was at OU. Keep fighting the good fight and I think you folks will finally get what you’ve earned through all the wonderful contributions you have made to the education of students and the university as a whole. In the meantime, I think it’s important that you know current students are not the only ones who support you and all the other professors’ efforts for a square deal(enjoy the T.R. reference)!

Friendly Regards,
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Michael X