{"id":6461,"date":"2017-07-07T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T17:00:44","slug":"academic-mobbing-or-how-to-become-campus-tormentors-university-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2017\/07\/07\/academic-mobbing-or-how-to-become-campus-tormentors-university-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors | University Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"\"Yup.
\nIf anyone wants to know why I gave up a job I had loved for over 20 years (and was VERY good at); why I gave up my tenure,
\nTHIS IS WHY.
\nPeople I thought were my friends, whom I had known for years (decades in some cases) either actively turned against me, or simply turned away (pretending\/trying not to notice what was being done to me).<\/p>\n

For some years, I tried to stay connected to the university in another faculty, but it turned out they were no different. The fact that I did my own thing, had more publications than any of them, and was doing more cutting edge work than any of them made me a threat and they turned on me too.<\/p>\n

Contrary to popular myth, having a strong sense of ethics, clear principles, and being very good at what you do are the most common “triggers” for mobbing. People hate it when you raise the bar – the farther below that bar they<\/em><\/strong> are, the more they will resent you<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

It has forever changed my life – though, I will admit some (perhaps even most) of it turned out for the better.
\nI am poorer financially.
\nI have PTSD.
\nI will never again be as trusting as I was.
\nI feel unsafe whenever I leave my home.
\nOn the other hand<\/strong><\/em>, I am more successful as an academic, author, and designer than I ever would have been had I not been driven out.
\nMy work is internationally known and respected (and I’m\u00a0NOT<\/em> just talking Canada and the US).<\/p>\n

So, one day, I may well thank those who tormented me for being so small-minded, petty, and unprofessional, because without their\u00a0pestilence, I might never have become so successful.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure that’s not what they were going for.<\/p>\n

For Professor Caroline Patsias at Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, once a professor at Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke. If you\u2019re a university professor, chances are fairly good that you have initiated or participated in mobbing. Why? First, because mobbers are not sadists or sociopaths, but ordinary people; second, because universities are a type of organization that [\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors | University Affairs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n