The Chronicle News Blog: ‘Mobbing’ Can Damage More Than Careers, Professors Are Told at Conference
Washington — It probably wouldn’t be that hard for faculty members to imagine that academic mobbing — a form of bullying in which members of a department gang up to isolate or humiliate a colleague — could derail their careers. But a discussion of the phenomenon today at the American Association of University Professors’ international conference on globalization, shared governance, and academic freedom illustrated that the consequences can be much worse.
‘Mobbing’ Can Damage More Than Careers, Professors Are Told at Conference
by E Wayne Ross on June 12, 2009