Black Graduate Student Association - Oakland University

BGSA Members and all Students. Let's Do something healthy together! See you there!

Fall season is here! Enjoying hot cider and freshly baked goods with our board. Have a great weekend and see you at our next meeting 🎃🍁

What are your after work/class plans??? Come enjoy this beautiful day with BGSA! 😊☀️😎😋

Are you ready for this month's event??!!! Details coming soon!

We would really like to give a big thank you to Dr. Thandi Sulé for speaking at our “Welcome to Wakanda” event last month! Dr. Sulé is an assistant professor of higher education and the coordinator of the masters program in Higher Education Leadership at OU. Her research interests include: educational equity issues, sense of belonging, and intercultural competencies. Dr. Sulé shared one of her current research focus areas which is Hip Hop culture in higher education. Amazing presentation!!

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: BGSA Would like to put the spotlight on Johnnie R. Blunt! Pictured here is Johnnie standing with our speaker at our April event Dr. Thandi Sulé and BGSA's Treasurer (Allison Palmer), President (Celeste Smith), and Vice-President (Juanita Tookes). We want to highlight Johnnie's dedication and participation in BGSA and his accomplishments as an amazing student at Oakland University.

Johnnie holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of New Mexico, a master's degree in English Literature from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and a secondary master's degree in Library and Information Science from Wayne State University.

Johnnie is currently a third year doctoral student in OU's reading education program. He is the recipient of multiple awards for reading education and has also served on multiple committees. Johnnie displays an intense passion for literature indicative of his service as an academic librarian at Kresge Library from 2012-2015 before entering into doctoral studies.

Once again, BGSA-OU would like to say a big CONGRATULATIONS to Johnnie for his achievements and we offer our continued support of your future endeavors!!! Keep us updated!!

You still have time to make our second meeting! Our discussion about Black Panther will be in Oakland Center Lake Superior A! Come down and join us!!

TODAY IS THE DAY PEOPLE!!!! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU IN WAKANDA!!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

"I am the dream and the hope of the slave." ~Maya Angelou

BGSA-OU is happy to announce our second event! WELCOME TO WAKANDA! Please don't worry if you have not seen the movie yet, we will not be discussing specific parts of the movie rather important general themes of the movie that relate to "The Black Experience Today" Please come out and have a good time with us! We have great activities planned!