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Classes are set to resume on Monday at the University of Windsor, and student leaders say they are determined that undergraduates be treated fairly after suffering through 13 days of cancelled lectures.

Striking faculty members and librarians will vote today on a tentative agreement to end the labour dispute that halted classes for about 16,000 students just two weeks into the fall term.

Tiffany Gooch, president of the students' alliance, said her group wants to ensure that arrangements for the university's undergraduates are fair when they return to campus. That includes makeup classes for lost instruction time or tuition refunds, flexibility in the rescheduling of assignments and midterm exams as well as extended hours at the library and campus Tim Hortons outlet.

"We want to make sure students don't get the short end of the stick," she said. "We want the full worth of the semester."

Details of the tentative deal were not released before the vote, but during the dispute, the university's administration took the unusual step of placing full-page ads in the local paper to outline its position. Alan Wildeman, the university's recently appointed president, said money was the only issue on the table and the public had a right to know.

The university's faculty association countered that the ads misrepresented what had been offered.

Brian E. Brown, president of the association, said both sides left the table feeling they had a good deal.

He said professors will adjust their plans for the term to accommodate plans for makeup classes.