Some of the UAFP negotiating team and representatives of the Pace University administration are taking part in two training sessions with the National Mediation Service. Pace fielded a high-level team that included Dean Herrmann, Associate Provost Adelia Williams-Lubitz, Ron Musselwhite and representatives from Dyson, Lubin, the School of Education and Nursing. People from finance and payroll were also included. It was the largest joint meeting ever held between the two sides. The purpose of the training was to introduce a new, less adversarial method of resolving differences between the university and the union.