Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office

Appointments

The Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Office regularly offers services utilizing Zoom. As a precaution against Covid-19, CMDR services are currently offered exclusively online.

How we can help

• Current staff have access to both formal and informal options. All other university members may request informal options.
• Mediate departmental, workplace, and academic issues. Mediation is an informal, private, and voluntary process with outcomes and agreements created by the parties with the help of a neutral facilitator.
• Listen impartially to concerns and help repair relationships.
• Restorative Justice: Options for restorative processes that respond to harms, impacts and needs through community/team building circles, meaningful accountability dialogues and conferences, and reentry support circles following suspension, extended leave, etc.
• Navigate bureaucratic systems and policies.
• Specifically for non-managers: Resolve performance appraisal and corrective action disagreements.
• Specifically for managers: Design clear performance plans and collaborative intervention prior to discipline.