To some, collaboration is the glue that holds an organization together. It provides employees. supervisors, reports, and subordinates the synergy needed to accomplish effective action efficiently. For others, collaboration creates the warmth of connectedness that is so vital to riding out the rough spots which appear on the path of progress. At Oakwood collaboration is a…
We see it every day—the miracles at Oakwood University that keep on coming. On February 1, 2017, Oakwood University witnessed a miracle—the opening of Oakwood Farms. Five months earlier, while I was walking back to my office from the McKee Business & Technology Complex, God spoke to me, rather humorously, I might add, and said, “Reopen…
Something good is always happening at Oakwood University. When I think of all the favor that has been showered on our institution, any number of initiatives or breakthroughs or blessings could be reported. We could have used this issue to tell you about the rebirth of Oakwood Farms, or the exciting new plans for the…
For the first five years of my formal education, I walked six blocks every day to a small neighborhood public school, McDonough 27. On my way to and from school, I passed many neighbors who knew me and my family. My teachers, who were also our neighbors, were respected community fixtures. To this day they,…