(AP) -- Classes at Oakland University remain canceled indefinitely. Professors at the suburban Detroit university will continue picketing Friday, a day after fall semester classes were expected to start. Professors are upset over being asked to freeze their salaries a year after the university's president got a pay raise.
The teacher's union, which represents 450 faculty members, authorized a strike after the university proposed a three-year wage freeze along with cuts in health-insurance benefits.
About 18,000 students attended the public four-year institution. University officials said increasing President Gary Russi's base pay last year from $250,000 to $350,000 made his salary comparable with the heads of other state schools.
Negotiations were expected to continue Friday.
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