The fall semester began this morning — one week late — at Michigan’s Oakland University.

Yesterday a judge ordered OU faculty and administrators to begin round-the-clock negotiations to end the university’s week-old strike, an this morning at 3:30 am the two sides reached a deal.

The agreement will have to be put to a vote of the faculty, and that vote may not happen until next month, but in the meantime faculty and students are heading back to the classroom.