This
April 8-11, 2002 Wayne State University will host
a 4-day meeting to explore the development of
best practice recommendations for campus conflict
intervention services, and to convene the formal
advisory board for the Campus
Conflict Resolution Resources project. A working
roster
of participants in this meeting is available
online.
The
Campus Conflict Resolution Resources project,
funded by FIPSE, involves building and stocking
an online resource clearinghouse to support constructive
conflict management practices on college and university
campuses. The initiative includes a number of
key working groups. Last April the first project
team met and successfully produced a program
evaluation toolkit for campus conflict resolution
projects that is now available online.
The
current best practices phase of the project will
work to build on other best practices efforts,
such as those developed by the National Association
for Mediation in Education and SPIDR. They will
involve use of an online workspace hosted by Wayne
State University called Sitescape Forum to do
preparatory work narrowing and focusing our efforts,
and then a two-day meeting to hash our some proposed
standards of best practice for campus conflict
resolution projects. These will be released for
comment and suggestion. The best practices team
meeting will be immediately followed by a meeting
of a formal advisory board for the FIPSE project
whose charge will be to help set the direction
for the clearinghouse into the future, and to
ensure that the project adequately serves and
responds to the broadest constituency possible
within higher education.
The
advisors will review the standards group's work
to date, and with these in mind, explore next
steps for the project. The third major working
group effort, scheduled for Spring 2003, will
focus on building a bridge between experienced
high school student mediators and college conflict
resolution programs, both academic and service-related.
Page
last updated
11/27/2005
A
project of Campus Conflict Resolution
Resources.
Supported by a FIPSE grant from the US Department of Education
and seed money from the Hewlett Foundation-funded CRInfo
project.
Correspondence
to CMHE Report
(Attn: Bill Warters)
Campus Conflict Resolution Resources Project
Department of Communication
585 Manoogian Hall
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48201.
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