On Dec 19, the EMU-AAUP and the administration had a hearing as part of the fact-finding process that was devoted entirely to selecting a set of comparable institutions. At an initial hearing in Nov, the sides had been asked to bring a list of comparable institutions that would be the basis for further analysis about salary and health care. When there were no common institution on the lists, the fact-finder scheduled this hearing (aditional background).

The EMU-AAUP requested that we be allowed to make an audio recording of the hearing, which we wanted to use both to debrief and to make available to the EMU community. The administration objected that it was inappropriate, so we cannot provide an .mp3 of the entire hearing or the highlights.

What we can disseminate is our presentation - originally powerpoint slides, turned into an adobe.pdf - and a .pdf of the Appendix that contains most of the supplemental information. (Several documents exist only as hard copy that we have not scanned in.) We recommend you start with the Presentation, which provides an overview of why we believe the MAC in general, and several institutions within the MAC in particular, are appropriate comparables for EMU. They argued that the appropriate comparables are: UM Dearborn, Northern Michigan, Grand Valley, and Saginaw Valley.

• Many thanks to the factfinding team: Howard Bunsis, Jim Carroll, Dave Crary, Megan Endres, Paul Leighton, Jim vanden Bosch, Linda Woodland, Diana Wong and our attorney Harvey Wax.