Nancy Geist Giacomini
About
Nancy Geist Giacomini (she/her) is a groundbreaking educator, mediator, and
systems consultant whose teaching, publications and advocacy have transformed student
conduct and conflict management practice for over three decades. She provides online
adjunct graduate instruction, subject matter expertise and doctoral candidate
mentoring for institutions including St. Bonaventure University (NY) and Sullivan
University (KY) and is a veteran mediator of special education disputes with
the Pennsylvania Office for Dispute Resolution. She earned her doctorate in educational
leadership from the University of Delaware while a conflict resolution program associate
in the Institute for Public Administration, where she served as a statewide
mediator, and graduate practicum instructor for student affairs practice in higher
education. Her career includes over a decade as assistant dean of students at
the University of Delaware where she managed the Student Conduct office; piloted
the Student Government Mediation program; chaired the Appeals Board, Council
for Judicial Affairs, and Sexual Assault Awareness Weeks; and was awarded the
Institutional Award for Women’s Equity. Giacomini champions integrated conflict
and conduct management initiatives in education. She balances an active
conflict management and teaching practice with educational consulting, conflict
coaching, and interim student affairs roles in higher education, including an
appointment as interim student conduct and Title IX respondent case manager and
grievance advisor for Swarthmore College (PA). She is a credentialed expert across
conflict coaching; group facilitation; mediation; restorative practices; victim-offender
conference facilitation; due process; Title IX; and ombudsperson roles.
Giacomini is an award-winning leader in the Association for Student Conduct
Administration (ASCA) with Board of Director roles culminating in a three-year
turn as president. She pioneered the integration of conflict resolution,
mediation, restorative justice, and inclusive excellence principles and
practices into traditional student conduct professional development programs
offered by the association in roles as conference chair, training institute
program chair, and faculty. Nancy founded the Community of Practice for Women
in Student Conduct, served on the ASCA Foundation Board, was appointed to the Diversity
Task Force, and lent expertise at the inaugural Conflict Resolution Strategic
Planning Summit. Additional memberships include the International Ombudsman
Association, Association for Conflict Resolution, Pennsylvania Council of
Mediators, ACPA College Student Educators International, and the Pennsylvania ODR
Stakeholder’s Council; she is also on the editorial board of the Journal of
Conflict Management (JOCM).
Author's Books
Reframing Campus Conflict Edition 2
Student Conduct Practice Through the Lens of Inclusive Excellence
Preface by Karen D. Boyd, Eleanor Moody-Shepherd and James McFadden
Foreword by Tia Brown McNair
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