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Important ICAR Student Resource for over 15 Years
NVMS got it's start at ICAR during 1988-1990. Many people
were involved in starting NVMS including ICAR students/graduates
Susan Shearouse and Bob Reed, ICAR professors, Rich Rubenstein,
Joe Scimeca and Chris Mitchell and Conflict Clinic staff
Frank Blechman, John Murray and Bill Potapchuk.
Initially, NVMS was established as a division of the Conflict
Clinic, an ICAR affiliate involved in resolving public policy
type disputes. The first class of mediators trained by NVMS
in 1989 was made up almost entirely of ICAR students and
graduates. Later, in 1990, NVMS was incorporated as a nonprofit
organization and received a grant from the Virginia Law
Foundation to hire it's first executive director, Ramona
Buck, another ICAR graduate.
The first board of directors included Delegate Jim Dillard
(still the NVMS Board Chair), an ICAR advisory board member
for many years, Susan Shearouse, ICAR Graduate and advisory
board member and Chester Myslicki, long time ICAR auditing
student.
Research
NVMS has a lot of data and we have a couple of interesting
research projects in mind. These could be ideal for an ICAR
student who is attending or has
completed Quantitative Methods. The student would help us
design the
study, cull the data and analyze the results which could
probably be published. Not only could this help contribute
to the development of the field, but it might also be helpful
as a project for the QM class and for those interested in
developing a record of publication. Contact Rob
Scott at NVMS if you are interested in exploring this
further.
Training
Discount Rules & Restrictions
Basically, full-time ICAR students can get 50% off the registration
fee. But, there are some conditions, rules and exceptions:
- First, you have to actually request
the discount. NVMS will not automatically figure out who
qualifies for a discount. Also, we cannot retroactively
give a discount because we calculate up the training proceeds
and pay the trainers based on how much we took in.
- The FULL price is before the $50
early registration discount. In our catalog, we have two
prices (eg. $395/$445). In that example the discount would
be 50% off the FULL price of $445 or $227.50.
- If the FULL price is $100 then
the discount is $50 and that is the same as what everyone
else will pay if they register early. So there is really
only a discount for registration fees over $100. The principle
here is that a student can get only 1 discount.
- Only full time active students
qualify for the discount. If the student is part-time,
there is no discount. Active means: attending classes
in the current semester or, if the workshop is being held
during the summer or semester break, registering for classes
during the following semester.
- The discount doesn't apply to
observations and co-mediations needed for Virginia certification.
These are full price unless the ICAR student has taken
the NVMS 20 hour mediation skills class, in which case
observations and co-mediations are free (depending on
availability).
- All discounts are on a space available
basis. That means that if the workshop is overbooked or
wait-listed, we can elect to bump the student with a discount
and fill the seat with a full-paying trainee.
- NVMS also reserves the right to
limit the number of discounted seats or not have discounts
for any particular workshop and to make changes to this
discount policy at any time.
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Internships
& Part-time Jobs
ICAR students are encouraged to
sign up for internships and part-time employment positions.
Internship inquiries are always welcome. Employment positions
are posted to the NVMS web site and/or listed on the ICAR
listservs. Interns and
employees may take training without cost during their internship
or period of employment (subject to NVMS discretion). Internships
can be negotiated and range from general office help to program
administration to project
development. Of course ICAR students receive a preference
when we are selecting employees and interns.
Mediation Clinic Class
From time to time, ICAR will offer a 1 or 2 credit skills
class in mediation in which students do supervised co-mediation
of court cases (for experience, "live" practice
and certification). Usually registration is limited to
ICAR majors and to 8-10 students and such classes fill
up early. Students will need to have mediation skills or
CONF 713 as a pre-requisite. See the full
class description below.
How
Can NVMS Help You?
NVMS tries to help when asked. We're not always able to help,
but NVMS has great connections in the mediation
community and we are always willing to help students if we
can - for example by helping facilitate access to mediators
for a survey, finding a mediator with a particular skill set
or background to answer questions, identifying an appropriate
speaker or presenter for a group, class or
project, etc.
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| Workshop
Discounts |
| Full-time
ICAR students receive a 50% discount on most NVMS training
programs. See the official Rules
& Restrictions. |
| Internships |
| ICAR
students are given a preference for any intern slots
NVMS has available. Students can select from a range
of posted internships
or work with the director to design a project that works
best for them. |
| Part-time
Employment |
Check
out our Employment
web page for any jobs we have posted. We also post these
to the ICAR listservs and give preference, whenever
possible, to ICAR students or graduates.
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| Research
Projects |
| We've got some ideas for quantitative
research studies using our collected data! See more
info on this. |
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