Reframing Campus Conflict : Student Conduct Practice Through the Lens of Inclusive Excellence

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, andsystems consultant whose teaching, publications and advocacy have transformed studentconduct and conflict management practice for over three decades. She provides onlineadjunct graduate instruction, subject matter expertise and doctoral candidatementoring for institutions including St. Bonaventure University (NY) and SullivanUniversity (KY) and is a veteran mediator of special education disputes withthe Pennsylvania Office for Dispute Resolution. She earned her doctorate in educationalleadership from the University of Delaware while a conflict resolution program associatein the Institute for Public Administration, where she served as a statewidemediator, and graduate practicum instructor for student affairs practice in highereducation. Her career includes over a decade as assistant dean of students atthe University of Delaware where she managed the Student Conduct office; pilotedthe Student Government Mediation program; chaired the Appeals Board, Councilfor Judicial Affairs, and Sexual Assault Awareness Weeks; and was awarded theInstitutional Award for Women's Equity. Giacomini champions integrated conflictand conduct management initiatives in education. She balances an activeconflict management and teaching practice with educational consulting, conflictcoaching, and interim student affairs roles in higher education, including anappointment as interim student conduct and Title IX respondent case manager andgrievance advisor for Swarthmore College (PA). She is a credentialed expert acrossconflict coaching; group facilitation; mediation; restorative practices; victim-offenderconference facilitation; due process; Title IX; and ombudsperson roles.Giacomini is an award-winning leader in the Association for Student ConductAdministration (ASCA) with Board of Director roles culminating in a three-yearturn as president. She pioneered the integration of conflict resolution, mediation, restorative justice, and inclusive excellence principles andpractices into traditional student conduct professional development programsoffered by the association in roles as conference chair, training instituteprogram chair, and faculty. Nancy founded the Community of Practice for Womenin Student Conduct, served on the ASCA Foundation Board, was appointed to the DiversityTask Force, and lent expertise at the inaugural Conflict Resolution StrategicPlanning Summit. Additional memberships include the International OmbudsmanAssociation, Association for Conflict Resolution, Pennsylvania Council ofMediators, ACPA College Student Educators International, and the Pennsylvania ODRStakeholder's Council; she is also on the editorial board of the Journal ofConflict Management (JOCM).