Charles (Chuck) Hill is a retired administrator from the University of California, Berkeley where he was one of the principals involved in the initiation, design, delivery, and business development of distance education programming. The last three years prior to his retirement he was asked to transfer to UC Irvine to help establish that campus’s presence in online course delivery. As distance education and the Internet converged to make online an accepted delivery method, Chuck noticed significant concerns on the part of both the faculty and administration seeking to protect their respective intellectual property rights. That led to Chuck’s interest in copyright and intellectual property disputes.
Chuck is a non-attorney mediator. He earned a Bachelor degree in Sociology from Dillard University, a Master in Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota, a Certificate in Health Systems Management from Harvard, and several ADR certificates from UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Lipscomb University, and the state of Tennessee.
Charles A. Hill is a Tennessee Supreme Court "Rule 31" Listed Mediator, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center, and has been appointed an Ombudsman/Mediator by the U.S. Department of Defense for service members disputing employment status following their military deployment with the Guard or Reserve
Segment 1 - Charles Hill
Chuck Hill came to the field of mediation in kind of a roundabout way. He came home as a young man in elementary school and there on the TV was a guy in a big black hat with a big cigar announcing that federal mediation and conciliation service has just resolved a contract dispute between General Motors and the United Auto Workers. He just thought these guys were just great heroes and what a wonderful thing to be able to take a bunch of Union guys GM guys, go in a back room, hammer out differences and save America from another strike. He thought that was wonderful. Then later when he finish school he got involved with human resources and wound up as director of labor relations for a hospital in Seattle that had 13 separate collective bargaining agreements. So he got a good taste of what union and labor relations was all about.
Segment 2 - Family Mediation and Emotions
In the state of Tennessee, the National Conflict Resolution Center for Family Mediation is used in disputes for families with children. Chuck shares with us the ups and downs of this type of mediation and why he first resisted it in the beginning of his career.
Also discussed in this segment is mediation in the music industry around entertainment issues.
Segment 3 - The Future of Mediation
In this segment of The Doug Noll Show, Doug and Chuck discuss the future of online mediation. This is a new way of conducting mediation for those separated by states and even other countries. Great segment as Doug asks excellent questions about the future of online mediation.
Segment 4 - Online Mediation
A concern about online mediation is quality and effectiveness. This should not be the case. This was looked at and studied for a long time and found that it depended on the training and the ability of the mediator using the system. Another excellent segment.
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