What they are going to do for us is workshops, and train some of our student athletes. It's valuable training. We can all use this. The CRC is located on the ground floor of the Student Services Building with the Student Ombudsman's Office. The ombudsman's office deals with student conflicts with professors, university officials or policies.
Mediation is an alternative chosen instead of or before judicial proceedings.
In most cases, it is highly successful. The CRC offers a Team Action Plan service to help students avoid interpersonal snags when they are working together in organizations or on class projects. A mediation session lasts about two hours and involves laying the dispute out before a neutral third party trained in conflict resolution. The mediators are upper division, undergraduates taking a practicum in this subject in the department of speech communication. They get more than 100 hours of training, much more than the amount of experience offered by commercial courses in mediation, Zilkha said.