‘Mobbing’ Can Damage More Than Careers, Professors Are Told at Conference

by E Wayne Ross on June 12, 2009

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.