Uganda’s Makerere University, the country’s oldest and one of Africa’s most prestigious universities, closed indefinitely on Thursday as part of a wage dispute with striking faculty members, reports AllAfrica.com. The university’s governing council made the decision after students threatened to join the weeklong faculty strike. The university was two weeks into its fall semester, and the move angered many students.

This is the second time in four years that Makerere has shut down because of unrest over a faculty strike. In November 2006 the university closed for almost two months.