tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080901.post4337617606282997705..comments2024-03-20T08:37:50.011+00:00Comments on Bullying of Academics in Higher Education: Petition to the Canadian Prime Minister to open an inquiry into the cases of mobbing in CanadaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080901.post-70033495969434944482015-04-06T01:13:00.206+00:002015-04-06T01:13:00.206+00:00Some Canadian readers may remember who Valery Fabr...Some Canadian readers may remember who Valery Fabrikant was.<br /><br />After the shooting incident and his subsequent arrest, his former university conducted an investigation. If I recall correctly, there was some basis to his allegations of misconduct but, in typical Canadian academic fashion, it seemed to have been shrugged off and little done to fix the problem.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080901.post-39467499965678200472015-04-02T03:47:52.847+00:002015-04-02T03:47:52.847+00:00Canadian academia seem to like their steak bloody....Canadian academia seem to like their steak bloody.....I was contacted a few years ago by a very unfortunate and `I'm sure brilliant mainland Chinese scholar who felt he had been lured to a temporary job in Canada only for them to steal his work and not offer him a job.<br /><br />There are always two sides to every story- I cannot judge the versions but what I can consider is how this man who had given up a life and family in China was treated by a university who seemed to regard him as a former staff number.<br /><br />His various appeals, elegantly and I believe honestly made, fell on ears that were not just deaf but frightening in their brutality.....<br /><br />I still think of him living in a single room in Canada trying to re-live a secure world in China he had lost....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28080901.post-30453080282886874722015-03-29T20:29:53.282+00:002015-03-29T20:29:53.282+00:00I know about this only too well. I used to teach ...I know about this only too well. I used to teach at a certain Canadian post-secondary institution and I endured years of bullying, harassment, and abuse from my departmental superiors. For most of that time, after I brought the matter to its attention, the staff association usually did nothing or turned a blind eye. Later, I found that a former president was a collaborator. There were indications that he knew what was going on and did nothing.<br /><br />I eventually found illicit material had been placed in my personnel file. All of it had been put there without my knowledge, in violation of institutional regulations. Most of that information was either an outright fabrication or a distortion of the truth.<br /><br />After making inquiries of a student legal office at the nearby university, I found out that it is *perfectly legal* to do that sort of thing here in Canada. One can say anything that one wishes about someone and it is the subject of those comments who must clear his or her name.<br /><br />Innocence until proven guilty applies only to whoever makes the allegations. For the accused, it's guilty until proven otherwise.<br /><br />It's nonsense like this that make me glad I'm out of that business now. Academe in Canada has become a cesspool.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com