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Go ahead and comment if you have impressions of the faculty meeting today in Roosevelt Hall on the contract. Here’s a link to the EMU-AAUP’s web site with the unfortunate headline “Administration Accepts Fact-finding, But Has Unacceptably Weak Response on Domestic Partner Benefit Loss.” Even in settlement, it seems combative.

Personally, I think the [...]

… because today the faculty union and the administration are talking about the deal from fact finding. Let’s hope it all works out!

UPDATE:

Perhaps we have a deal?  This just in from Mullen speaking for Fallon:

MESSAGE TO THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

On Monday, the university and the EMU Chapter of the AAUP received the
report of the fact [...]

I just heard on NPR that the California State University system faculty has agreed to a deal with the administration.  Here are the opening paragraphs from the “Inside Bay Area” web site, which is put out by the Oakland Tribune:

The union representing 24,000 California State University faculty members has agreed to a tentative contract that [...]

Cal State University has been in the news lately over an impending strike and contract negotiations. The story seems to mirror the circumstances at EMU in some ways, just further down the road in the process. They’ve been without a new contract since June of 2005. They also brought in a fact finder.

Travis portrayed the [...]

My “day job” has kept me especially busy lately, so it just wasn’t in the cards for me to try to attend any of the fact finding hearings yesterday. But I wonder if anyone out there in EMUtalk-land did, and I wonder if any of you would-be reporters would like to report? And also, [...]

Well, we’re into the thick of it:  fact finding hearings are here and here in a big way.

There’s a bunch of stuff over at the EMU-AAUP web site, but quite frankly, I haven’t had the time to sit down to review the 145 slide PowerPoint presentation, mainly because I have a job and a life.  [...]

In the whole excitement about caps in online courses (wow, when I put it like that, it isn’t exactly that exciting…) I completely forgot to mention that EMU-AAUP President Howard Bunsis sent around an email about the latest talks between the faculty and the administration. This is probably just my own perceptions, but it [...]