About the
Fund for the Improvement of
Post Secondary Education

The Campus-adr project has been made possible thanks to a major 3-year grant from the federal Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Wayne State University's College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs is administering the $364,000 grant, which began October 1, 2000, with Bill Warters serving as the Program's Director.

Funding Innovation in Conflict Resolution

FIPSE, a program of the Department of Education, has been funding innovations in postsecondary education since 1972. The annual comprehensive program funding competition has been a primary source of inspiration, creating space and vehicles for the exploration of new ways to do things in higher education. Along the way a number of valuable campus conflict resolution projects have received FIPSE support. The current project is particularly welcome given the rapidly growing interest in Alternative Dispute Resolution on campus, the relative scarcity of useful information and isolation of existing programs, and the tremendous advances in information technology touching campuses across the globe that will facilitate the project's broad outreach goals.

More information on FIPSE

FIPSE maintains their own website under the department of education. More information on their mission and operating procedures is available there.