Melanie Frances Fain from Cleveland, Ga., Represents Brenau University at GSU Mediation Tournament

2012 Nov 9

Melanie Frances Fain from Cleveland, Ga., represented Brenau University Friday, Oct. 12, at the second annual conflict resolution symposium at Georgia State University. Fain and sophomore teammate Suzette Meza tied for first place in the individual mediation portion of the tournament. The Brenau junior is a conflict resolution and legal studies major. She is a member of BAMAL (Brenau Association of Mediators and Legal Scholars) and the Commuter Council. Fain is a graduate of White County High School. She is the daughter of John and Twanna Fain of Cleveland.

The Friday tournament featured two teams each from Brenau, Georgia State, Clayton State University, Middle Georgia College and Gainesville State College. The Brenau victory in the 10-team competition followed by one week another first-place finish among college and university teams from three states that participated in the 10th regional invitational tournament that Brenau hosted on its home campus in Gainesville, Ga., Oct. 5-6.

At the Georgia State program, sponsored by the Ombudsperson's Office at the university, also featured presentations by two Brenau faculty members: Dr. Ken Frank, chair of the humanities department and head of the

For more info about the Brenau conflict resolution and legal studies program, call Frank at (770) 534-6297 or email kfrank@brenau.edu.

ABOUT BRENAU – Founded in 1878, Brenau University currently enrolls about 2,800 students in graduate and undergraduate programs on campuses and online. The main campus of the Georgia-based liberal arts institution, which includes the Brenau Women's College, is in Gainesville with other campuses in Augusta, Kings Bay and in two metro Atlanta locations, Norcross and Fairburn. Brenau's 2011 ranking as one of the top 15-best higher education values in the Southeast by U.S. News & World Report marks the university's sixth consecutive year in that position for the magazine's America's Best Colleges guidebook. In 2012 Brenau online programs scored high in national rankings by U.S. News, including a No. 9-in-the-nation "Honor Roll" listing for graduate degree tracks in Brenau's College of Education. Brenau University also was granted "Honor Roll" status among the 2012 listings of the great colleges and universities to work for by The Chronicle of Higher Education and one of the best universities in the Southeast by The Princeton Review. Breanu's extraordinary learning environment also was highlighted among the Colleges of Distinction.