Applying Restorative Justice Practices in Student Life

19 Student Affairs staff attended a half-day training on applying restorative justice practices to higher education on Friday, Sept. 20. The training was led by Schoene Mahmood, program manager for the Restorative Justice Project in the LMU Center for Urban Resilience (CURes) and was made possible through the support of Dr. Lane Bove. Dr. Michele Romolini, managing director of CURes, and Dr. Eric Strauss, executive director of CURes. Strauss spoke briefly at the training to situate restorative justice practices in the context of the larger LMU community and CURes’ efforts beyond the bluff.

In addition to gaining an understanding of the theory behind this work, training attendees engaged in a community-building circle experience and a restorative conferencing case exercise. Students from The Learning Community and Sorority & Fraternity Life also shared their experiences with the training they received on restorative justice practices and the applications they see in their communities.