Campus Mediation Services records

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Campus Mediation Services records

1979-1987 and undated (majority 1982-1986)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1629

Interested faculty, staff, and graduate students founded Campus Mediation Services (CMS) during the fall 1979 semester in response to a perceived increase in tensions at the University of Maryland, College Park. Until CMS ceased operations in 1986, the organization's volunteer mediators helped students, faculty, staff and College Park residents reach mutually satisfactory agreements to resolve interpersonal disputes. The records of Campus Mediation Services cover the period from 1978 to 1987, with the bulk of the records dating from 1982 to 1986. Document types represented in the collection include correspondence, funding proposals, conference schedules and a speech, brochures, a survey report, newspaper clippings and other reading materials, a handbook, and sample forms. Subjects represented in the collection are the discipline of conflict resolution, fundraising, staff development, campus program development, community relations, mediation procedures, and actual disputes brought to CMS for resolution.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Williams, Rebecca L., Esquire

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Helms, Bobby

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University of Maryland, College Park

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Westbrook, Franklin D.

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University of Maryland, College Park. Campus Mediation Services.

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Founded in 1979 by interested faculty, staff, and graduate students in response to a perceived increase in tensions at the University of Maryland, College Park. The organization's volunteer mediators helped students, faculty, staff, and College Park residents reach mutually satisfactory agreements to resolve interpersonal disputes. Ceased operations in 1986. From the description of Records. 1979-1987. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 60...

Campus Mediation Services

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Interested faculty, staff, and graduate students founded Campus Mediation Services (CMS) during the fall 1979 semester in response to a perceived increase in tensions at the University of Maryland, College Park. Spurred on by innovative leadership at the Counseling Center, CMS organizers conducted several surveys of university groups and departments in order to gauge their understanding of the need for conflict resolution service on campus; moreover, CMS volunteers targeted these su...