Scheinman Institute Blog

Dean Colvin and Director Katz participate in LERA international discussion on employment relations issues.

Scheinman Institute experts outline practical considerations for conducting investigations while social distancing.

Director Harry Katz's farewell address as President of the Labor Employment Relations Association.

Dean Alexander Colvin's study of how workers are increasingly being required to sign mandatory arbitration agreements.

The authors examine disposition statistics from employment arbitration cases administered over an 11-year period by the American Arbitration Association.

The Scheinman Institute's Vietnam Program was conducted virtually this year.

The Scheinman Institute has developed an innovative program exploring dispute resolution among Navajo and Hopi tribes.

Starting this fall, the ILR School is offering a new Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Conflict Resolution. The MPS in Conflict Resolution, Ithaca Campus, draws upon the strengths of Cornell’s Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.

The ILR School/Scheinman Institute is pleased to announce a one-year postdoctoral fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year.

A new course explores indigenous Native American dispute resolution processes.

Campus Mediation Practicum goes online revamping both courses and student mediations.

ILR undergraduate Niamh O’Connor has recently worked with the Scheinman Institute’s Dan McCray, Director, Labor Relations, to investigate Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Executive Order 203.

Graduating senior Sarah Rim reflects on the Scheinman Institute courses, research opportunities, and student activities that have profoundly influenced her academic and professional goals.

Hanni Wiegand explores Navajo peacemaking and restorative justice

On April 1st, members of the ILR Sports Business Society (SBS) and the Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club (SCRC) squared off in a Mock Baseball Salary Arbitration.

While many may think of labor strikes as features of a more tumultuous American, and global, past, they persist into and dominate our most recent memories. Most laborers, regardless of where or in which field they worked, recall the GE strike of 2019,

For some New York City residents, COVID-19 has caused immense financial strain that has impacted their ability to make rent each month; both residential and commercial tenants are finding themselves in this position.

Institute Director of Healthcare and Partner Programs John August profiles a hospital whose collaborative approach during the pandemic is a model for other institutions.

Institute Director Harry Katz provides an update for July.

The Scheinman Institute Employment and Labor ADR Hub will mark its one-year anniversary, with a very special webinar discovering how Scheinman Arbitration and Mediation Services is leading the way via a collaborative team approach along with the motto “Several heads are better than one.”

The Scheinman Institute hosts an important discussion on police reform.

Scheinman Director of Healthcare and Partner Programs John August examines the collaborative employee structure of a major inner city hospital.

Scheinman Institute Director of Healthcare and Partner Programs John August continues his examination of patient centered collective bargaining.

The Scheinman ADR Hub hosted a webinar on using a collaborative team approach to dispute resolution.

Gwynne A. Wilcox, a member of the Scheinman Institute Advisory Board, has been nominated to serve on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by President Joe Biden. Wilcox, a noted attorney and union representative, has been associated with the Institute since 2012.

Scheinman Advisory Board Spotlight: Nancy E. Hoffman

Scheinman Institute Advisory Board member John Bickerman has been named the 2021 recipient of the ILR School’s Groat Award. 

The Scheinman Institute Advisory Board recently expanded its membership with the addition of three noted figures in the conflict resolution field.

“I truly believe that one of the biggest areas of conflict is in fact, agreement. The alignment of goals, ideas and actions that is invisible to the parties but that a third party can help discern and reveal.”

“My professors became friends,” says the 2021 Groat Award winner, in sharing his ILR experiences. “I consider them all part of my Cornell family.”

Mac Barreca, both as a student and an alumnus, has been set on a trajectory by the Scheinman Institute. He has conducted his own research regarding the overlap in skills between mediation and crisis/hostage negotiation, and continues to pursue crisis negotiation as an end goal. 

Alum Shaloni Pinto served as President of the Scheinman Conflict Resolution Club and Editor of the Institute's newsletter among many other distinctions.

Scheinman Institute alum Keith Greenberg credits his studies at ILR as key to his success as an arbitrator.

Alum Veronika Koziel is on the front lines of employee relations.

ILR alum Sarah Espinosa '95 discusses her educational experience with the School and Institute and her noted career as an arbitrator and mediator.

Institute Director Harry Katz, ILR’s Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining, began his three-year term as president of the International Labor and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) on June 24.

Since the spring semester of 2020, Katrina Nobles, Director of Conflict Programs at the Institute, and Ariel Avgar, ILR Associate Professor Labor Relations, Law and History and Associate Dean for Outreach, have worked to develop a peer mediation program designed for faculty.

Recently, Dan McCray, Director of Labor Relations Programs for the Scheinman Institute, hosted an important and timely discussion on police reform.

Scheinman Institute Director of Conflict Programs Katrina Nobles was a recipient of an “Engaged Learning Teaching Award”.

Alice Lee, Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior, has concluded that negotiations are rarely just an exchange of numbers; rather, negotiators surround their offers with explanations, accounts, and varying degrees of politeness that seek to justify, explain, and soften the potential offense of whatever terms they are proposing.

Susan W. Brecher, Director Employment Law, Employee Relations and Internal Investigations Programs at the Institute, aided the employee relations leadership at one of the largest global computer technology providers.