Accordingly, campuses are providing alternative dispute mechanisms including informal negotiations, mediation, grievance systems, ombudsman offices, and arbitration. Managing Campus Conflict focuses on widely accepted forms of alternative dispute resolution, how they work, and their application to the collegiate environment. It offers data to assess options and determine how processes can be adapted to a particular institution and environment. An extensive appendices of policies and forms that can be used for arbitration, mediation, grievance processing, and ombudsman systems is provided. Detailed bibliographies on higher education and dispute resolution are included.
Colleges pride themselves in their efforts to model a collegial community.
They ought therefore serve as a leader in addressing conflict and providing an internal means for its resolution. As a leading provider of legal information for college decision makers, Managing Campus Conflict is designed to contribute to the reassessment and refinement of dispute resolution mechanisms and hopefully to the reduction of campus conflict.