Claire Michele Rice
Assistant Professor
Nova Southeastern University
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
3301 College Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314
Phone: (954) 262-3029
Toll Free: 800-262-3029
Fax: (954) 262-3968
Email: clairice@nsu.nova.edu
Dr. Claire Michèle Rice is Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis & Resolution and Community Relations at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nova Southeastern University. She received a Ph.D. at Florida International University in Comparative Sociology with concentrations in race and ethnicity, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. Rice’s research and community organization activities have focused on conflict resolution training, diversity training, and mentoring as viable tools for human resource development and collaborative problem-solving.
As a certified Inclusive Community Building Trainer (ICB Trainer), for the past 10 years, Rice has served as a consultant to businesses, civic organizations, and institutions of primary to higher education in the Caribbean and in the U.S. Rice credits much of her work in inclusive community building to her mentor, Deryl G. Hunt, Ph.D., developer of the Inclusive Community Building Model. Some of her consulting career’s highlights include her work with Margaret McDonald Policy Management & Administration Center in Nassau, Bahamas for a number of years in training and program development. She also enjoyed her work with FAVACA, the Florida Agency for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas. As part of a team of ICB trainers, she assisted the Women in Democracy organization in Haiti in developing community building programs and in enhancing their conflict resolution skills.
Dr. Rice has worked with various community service organizations and has spent years mentoring middle school, high school and university students. She assisted the Florida Education Fund (FEF) in developing a journal review process that incorporates a mentoring model for Ph.D. students. For her efforts, Dr. Rice was awarded the Dr. Israel Tribble Jr. Award for outstanding contributions to the FEF in 2002. She now serves as Vice-President of the McKnight Alumni Association.
Dr. Rice is now collaborating with researchers from NSU’s Education Department on research, promoting self-efficacy in teen-aged mothers. To assist with the study, she developed a mentoring and training curriculum in which high school students are mentored by university students in order to achieve academic and professional development. Dr. Rice has also authored, edited, co-authored several monographs, book chapters, articles, training manuals, and newsletters on diversity issues, conflict resolution and inclusive community building. Rice currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal of ICB Productions, the Peace and Conflict Studies and The FEF Journal of Interdisciplinary Research.
As a former Assistant Professor of Sociology at FMU, her worked in mentoring students and assisting them in gaining practical experience through paid internships in collaboration with ICB Productions has resulted in at least 13 FMU students traveling to the Bahamas, as part of an Ambassador Exchange program. Dr. Rice is also co-founder of Rice Training Solutions, Inc. along with her husband Dr. Larry A. Rice. Their firm specializes in providing consultation and training in conflict resolution, diversity issues, mediation, and leadership development. The Rices have facilitated over 10,000 hours of training for institutions of higher learning, businesses, private and non-profit organizations. Dr. Rice was recently recognized as Humanitarian of the Year at Florida Memorial University (FMU) for her commitment to community service. In July 2006, she was recognized by the Margaret McDonald Policy Management & Administration Centre in their “Banquet of Honour Celebrations 2006” with an “Outstanding Service Award” for her work as an international consultant to MMPMAC and various organizations in the Bahamas.