Podcast 1: Fact-finding and Background on the Strike (14 oct 2006)

This 20 minute podcast discusses the contract negotiations and strike as background for an explanation of the process of using a state fact-finder. People familiar with the controversy may wish to skip ahead to 8:28, where the discussion of fact-finding begins.

EMU Professors Are Working Without a New Contract.. and With Declining Confidence in the Administration (768kb/pdf). Advertisement ran in the Eastern Echo 16 October 2006

Video

The following video clips on YouTube were taken by EMU students, notby the union or professors.

'Third Shadow' is doing a video tour of the EMU campus and comes across professors and students picketing outside of the administration building.

'Lisa Simpson' has posted several video clips of events and her discussion:

• Sept 12: Protest Update Commentary and Analysis

• Sept 12: Protest at the President's House

Steve Krause, from the English Dept, created a podcast/audio file of the night that the administration walked of contract talks - Sept 5, the day before classes started.

From the description on his blog:

I created a podcast/audio file that pretty much captures the night experiences for me (I’ll explain the difference between audio files and podcasts later, or you can read my article in Computers and Composition Online about teaching online classes with blogs. But I digress…). It’s about 9:30 minutes long, it’s an MP3 file, and it’s about 10.9 MB, and it’s linked right here. Just click on the link, and your browser should just play it. Actually, I think it turned out pretty well because I was able to capture some good audio with just my iPod and a microphone attached to it, including the faculty chanting at the adminstration’s team and Howard talking to folks after they left. And, if I do say so myself, I think this file really captures the moment better than these words here. Trust me, it’s worth the download.