Metropolitan State University of Denver Names First Ombuds

The public university in downtown Denver has announced that G. Michael Kilpatrick will be the Director of its newly established Ombuds Office.  “Michael Kilpatrick is a seasoned ombuds officer who has built ombuds offices from the ground up as well as led small and large offices throughout his career,” said Myron Anderson, Associate to the President for Diversity, who will oversee the office. Kilpatrick will begin work on March 1. 
The new office at MSU was created in response to an employee climate survey and and is part of the university's 2012-17 Strategic Plan.  Kilpatrick is a Certified Organization Ombudsman Practitioner, and has served in various ombuds/mediator/facilitator capacities since 1992, including Bridgepoint Education and subsidiaries and the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego.  He earned master's in negotiation and conflict resolution from Creighton University, a master of theology degree from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's from Western State University College of Law in San Diego.  (MSU News.)

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