Mediation in the Campus Community: Designing and Managing Effective Programs

"Far and away the most comprehensive guide available to collegesand universities, or indeed at any public institution with anactive staff and an involved client base. Warters presents a widerange of possible program structures and provides the informationthat organizers and participants need to select the best option."(James B. Boskey (1942-1999), former editor and publisher, TheAlternative Newsletter, and former professor of law, Seton Hall LawSchool, New Jersey)

"Professionally written, logically organized, and delivered in apersonal style that is appealing to the reader.... I have found thetext to be truly 'user-friendly' with a thoughtful balance oftheory with pragmatic suggestions for developing and integrating amediation program on campus." (Roger Witherspoon, vice president,Student Development, John Jay College of Criminal Justice)

"Warters not only conveys the need for mediation on campus, but theimportance of relating mediation to existing mechanisms such asstudent judicial affairs and other grievance processes." (GeneZdziarski, developer of Student Conflict Resolution Services andassociate director of Student Life, Texas A&M University, andformer board member of the Association for Student JudicialAffairs)

"Every academic administrator will find dozens of specific ideasthat will bring relief from the constant challenges of conflict.This book helps show where the conflicts come from--and howmediation and conflict resolution training can support aconflict-competent organization." (Mary Rowe, Ombudsperson,Massachusetts Institute of Technology)