Reframing Campus Conflict / Edition 1

by Jennifer Meyer Schrage, Nancy Geist Giacomini, Edward N. Stoner

Overview

This fully revised and updated second edition builds upon the original vision of the first, which was to give voice to diverse and inclusive perspectives, identities, and practices and to enact the principle that student conduct and conflict response must be based upon foundations of social justice and restorative justice to disrupt and transform overly legalistic and escalated management applications in student conduct administration. The Spectrum Model (Schrage & Thompson, 2008) approach centers advocacy for inclusive conflict excellence by expanding traditional adjudication pathways to include dialogue, conflict coaching, mediation, restorative practices, and shuttle diplomacy for a more robust and inclusive expression of conflict and conduct practices. In the intervening decade, this co-edited work has become more relevant than ever as colleges and universities continue to be the targets of litigation, activists, lawmakers and public officials who have, for instance, changed the Title IX rules for responding to sexual misconduct. Civility, hate crimes, activism, immigration, nationalism, and free speech are all again on the forefront of challenges impacting the current campus climate.New chapters cover these and other issues including the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic response and impact on equity and justice in higher education, and amplified calls for racial justice and police reform. The book is further enhanced by chapter case studies, summaries and questions for dialogue, to encourage further reflection by the reader and bolster the usefulness of the work as a textbook and campus training guide. The second edition is a must-have resource for broad stakeholders invested in inclusive conflict excellence and principled leadership in education in the midst of a shifting and increasingly polarized landscape. This includes legal counsel, higher education presidents, senior student affairs administrators and faculty leadership as well as student conduct practitioners across conduct boards, hearing and appeal officers, residential and organizational staff engaged in student facing campus climate work. Reframing Campus Conflict further offers transferable content that supports inclusive conflict excellence inquiry and application in graduate programs, K-12, special education and human resource management practices. This book is for all educators, administrators, practitioners and leaders committed to engaging campus conflict work through the inclusive lenses of social, restorative, transformative and procedural justice.This is also available as a set with Student Conduct Practice, Second Edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781579224097
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/21/2009
Series:	Reframing Campus Conflict / Student Conduct Practice Series
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Meyer Schrage (she/her) is the interim associate vice president for student life at the University of Michigan and is an expert in higher education policy, leadership, and conflict management. She has devoted her career to promoting safe and just campus communities through leading, teaching, developing, and administering innovative institutional policies and practices through a lens of inclusive excellence. Schrage has worked for the University of Michigan since 2006, serving in a variety of senior leadership roles, including as the senior adviser to the vice president and as director for both the International Center and Office of Student Conflict Resolution. Schrage is credited with leading realignment and strategic change on a local and national level, having earned the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA) Award for Excellence for significant contributions to the field for her collaborative work with Monita C. Thompson in developing the nationally recognized spectrum model for campus conduct and conflict management. Interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education for innovative practices and restorative justice, she has also been invited to speak about her experience and expertise across the country, including invitations from the Association for American Law Schools, Northwestern University, and the ASCA National Conference and Academy. In addition to coediting the first edition of Reframing Campus Conflict (Stylus, 2009), her work is published in About Campus, the Council on Law in Higher Education Student Affairs Law & Policy Quarterly, and ASCA’s Law & Policy Report. Schrage previously taught at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University’s Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center and served as director of Student Judicial Services at Eastern Michigan University. Schrage came to higher education from the practice of law. She earned her law degree at the University of Arizona.

Nancy Geist Giacomini (she/her) is a groundbreaking educator, mediator, and systems consultant whose teaching, publications and advocacy have transformed student conduct and conflict management practice for over three decades. She provides online adjunct graduate instruction, subject matter expertise and doctoral candidate mentoring for institutions including St. Bonaventure University (NY) and Sullivan University (KY) and is a veteran mediator of special education disputes with the Pennsylvania Office for Dispute Resolution. She earned her doctorate in educational leadership from the University of Delaware while a conflict resolution program associate in the Institute for Public Administration, where she served as a statewide mediator, and graduate practicum instructor for student affairs practice in higher education. Her career includes over a decade as assistant dean of students at the University of Delaware where she managed the Student Conduct office; piloted the Student Government Mediation program; chaired the Appeals Board, Council for Judicial Affairs, and Sexual Assault Awareness Weeks; and was awarded the Institutional Award for Women’s Equity. Giacomini champions integrated conflict and conduct management initiatives in education. She balances an active conflict management and teaching practice with educational consulting, conflict coaching, and interim student affairs roles in higher education, including an appointment as interim student conduct and Title IX respondent case manager and grievance advisor for Swarthmore College (PA). She is a credentialed expert across conflict coaching; group facilitation; mediation; restorative practices; victim-offender conference facilitation; due process; Title IX; and ombudsperson roles. Giacomini is an award-winning leader in the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA) with Board of Director roles culminating in a three-year turn as president. She pioneered the integration of conflict resolution, mediation, restorative justice, and inclusive excellence principles and practices into traditional student conduct professional development programs offered by the association in roles as conference chair, training institute program chair, and faculty. Nancy founded the Community of Practice for Women in Student Conduct, served on the ASCA Foundation Board, was appointed to the Diversity Task Force, and lent expertise at the inaugural Conflict Resolution Strategic Planning Summit. Additional memberships include the International Ombudsman Association, Association for Conflict Resolution, Pennsylvania Council of Mediators, ACPA College Student Educators International, and the Pennsylvania ODR Stakeholder’s Council; she is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Conflict Management (JOCM).

Table of Contents

Foreword—Tia Brown McNair Preface—Karen D. Boyd, Eleanor Moody-Shepherd, and James McFadden Acknowledgments Introduction—Jennifer Meyer Schrage and Nancy Geist Giacomini Part One. Responding to Conflict on Campus. Foundations for Student Affairs Educators 1. Transforming the Climate and Culture of Campus Communities Through Inclusive Conflict Excellence—Nancy Geist Giacomini and Jennifer Meyer Schrage 2. Reconciling Legal Obligations with Education Goals. Revisiting Foundations of Student Conflict Work—Simone Himbeault Taylor and Donica Thomas Varner 3. Why Objectivity is Not Nearly Enough. The Critical Role of Social Justice in Campus Conflict and Conduct Work—Ryan C. Holmes, Keith E. Edwards, Tamara L. Greenfield King, and Michael M. DeBowes 4. Creating a Community of Inclusive Excellence Using a Spectrum Model Approach to Campus Conflict—Jennifer Meyer Schrage and Monita C. Thompson Part Two. Pathways Within the Spectrum Model 5. Reviving Dialogue—Jennifer Meyer Schrage and E. Royster Harper 6. The Art of Coaching. Transferring Interpersonal and Group Conflict Resolution Skills to a One-on-One Setting—Nancy Geist Giacomini and Patricia M. Porter 7. Facilitated Dialogue. An Introduction and Overview for Campus Conflict Management—Jay K. Wilgus and Ryan C. Holmes 8. Models of Mediation Practice—William Warters 9. Restorative Justice from Theory to Practice—Andrea Goldblum 10. Negotiating Peace on Campus through Shuttle Diplomacy—Jennifer Meyer Schrage and Veronica Hipolito 11. Off Script. Incorporating Principles of Inclusive Conflict Excellence Into Informal and Formal Adjudication Pathways—Nancy Geist Giacomini, David R. Karp, Derrick D. Dixon and Valerie Glassman Part Three. Sustainable Innovation and Transformation 12. Cultural Responsiveness in Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution Assessment—Erik Wessel and Amanda Karel 13. Building Relational and Critical Thinking Skills. The Power of Peer-Led Restorative Justice Circles Among First-Year College Students—Sheila M. McMahon and David R. Karp 14. Culture, Conflict, and Student Learning. Intercultural Development for Global and Inclusive Graduates—Julio J. Cardona, Ramona Meraz Lewis, Nathan J. Hanke, D. Eric Archer, Mary Jo E. Desprez, and Donna M. Talbot 15. Keeping it Real. Reflections on Inclusive Campus Leadership and Authentic Collaboration—Tamara L. Greenfield King, and Leah A. MerrifieldAfterword—Nancy Geist Giacomini and Jennifer Meyer Schrage Editors and Contributors Index

Editorial Reviews

The essays in this book start to fill an opening left by the Model Student Code. It is written by student affairs professionals with, collectively, centuries of student affairs experience [who] have worked in large and small institutions, public and private, all across the country and have experimented (and used successfully) a wide range of approaches.

This book contains not only suggestions, but also models. You probably will not find one that fits your campus ‘exactly’. But what you will find is the treasure of careful thought that has been given to many different approaches. If you are lucky, you will find a nugget here and a kernel there that, together, will be just the New Approach that fits your campus history and expectations perfectly.

Edward Stoner

This publication is endorsed by ASCA as a collaborative, collegial new lens through which to consider how social justice practices and student conduct administration can come together to inform best practices in conduct and conflict management on college and university campuses.

This approach serves to enhance the student’s ability to fully comprehend the seriousness of the conduct, appreciate the people, community, or institutions affected by their conduct, restore the people, communities, and institutions affected, and hopefully eliminate a repeat of inappropriate behavior. When a student comprehends the impact of their behavior on others; this truly allows the student to participate in not only an educational but transformative process. The student walks away from the experience with a greater appreciation for the community to which they belong and a deeper respect for others.”

“The essays in this book start to fill an opening left by the Model Student Code. It is written by student affairs professionals with, collectively, centuries of student affairs experience [who] have worked in large and small institutions, public and private, all across the country and have experimented (and used successfully) a wide range of approaches.

This book contains not only suggestions, but also models. You probably will not find one that fits your campus ‘exactly’. But what you will find is the treasure of careful thought that has been given to many different approaches. If you are lucky, you will find a nugget here and a kernel there that, together, will be just the New Approach that fits your campus history and expectations perfectly.

From the Publisher

This publication is endorsed by ASCA as a collaborative, collegial new lens through which to consider how social justice practices and student conduct administration can come together to inform best practices in conduct and conflict management on college and university campuses.

This approach serves to enhance the student’s ability to fully comprehend the seriousness of the conduct, appreciate the people, community, or institutions affected by their conduct, restore the people, communities, and institutions affected, and hopefully eliminate a repeat of inappropriate behavior. When a student comprehends the impact of their behavior on others; this truly allows the student to participate in not only an educational but transformative process. The student walks away from the experience with a greater appreciation for the community to which they belong and a deeper respect for others.

Tamara J. King