www.wmitchell.edu Advanced ADR Course
ADR process
Resolving disputes, learning skills, serving community
In our Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution course, students take on real clients to design actual ADR systems to serve the clients' needs. Students learn by doing and, as a result, provide a needed service to major state and local organizations.
Because the students are creating a program that will be implemented by an actual organization, they learn firsthand the discipline, rigor, teamwork, and thoroughness expected of legal professionals. Students work outside of the classroom, conducting interviews and research, meeting with the client, attending class committee meetings, participating in group drafting sessions, and planning presentations.
The work that the Advanced ADR class is doing was recognized in 2005 with a top national award from the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution for its “very innovative, practical, and hands-on” approach to teaching.
Advanced ADR Projects
Best Buy ADR Project:
In 2003, students created a new system for Best
Buy Co. to prevent and resolve internal disputes
between employees.
Education Minnesota ADR Project
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In 2004, students designed a three-step system to
address disputes between teachers for Education
Minnesota—the state’s largest union.
In 2005, Education Minnesota returned with the superintendents’ union, MASA, and students designed another system to address conflicts between teachers and administrators.
ADR Award from the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Student-created manuals
for
Education Minnesota's
ADR system
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