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Nan Stager Senior Lecturer M.S., Indiana University, 1978

Nan Stager joined the faculty at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs as a part-time lecturer in 1988. She became a full-time lecturer in 2007 and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2008. She teaches undergraduate, graduate and executive education courses in Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution. She also co-teaches a week-long civil mediation course, Public Policy Mediation, with John Krauss at the Indiana University Law School at Indianapolis twice every year. She served as the assistant director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute housed in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs from 2001–2006.

Nan has twenty-five years of experience as a mediator. She was the director of the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program in Monroe County, Indiana from 1983-1987 and had a private mediation practice specializing in family, court and community disputes from 1987-1991. She currently is an ad-hoc mediator for the Indiana Education Employment Relations Board (teacher contract disputes) and serves as a mediator for the Indiana Department of Education’s Division of Exceptional Learners (special education disputes).

Nan has an extensive background in training new mediators. She is certified as an assistant trainer in both civil and family mediation through the Indiana Commission for Continuing Legal Education. She co-developed and taught the state’s first Civil to Domestic Crossover Mediation Training in 2006. She also conducts numerous negotiation and mediation training workshops primarily in the public sector. These organizations and agencies include the Indiana State Bar Association, the Indiana Office of the Attorney General, Association of Indiana Counties, Indiana Board of Tax Review, Indiana Planning Association, Indiana Department of Environmental Management and Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center Division. She has presented workshops on ADR and state government at the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution’s national conference in 2004 and 2006.