Researchers' Perspectives on Bullying in Higher Education

Veteran researchers Loraleigh Keashly, PhD (Associate Dean and Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit) and Kathleen Rospenda, PhD (Professor, Psychiatric Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago) discuss 25 years of research of emotional abuse and workplace bullying. Convergent themes include the roles of chronic, long-term exposure to abuse, the relational aspect of it, and the importance of the context of the abuse. In addition, they describe a large systemic intervention at the VA and emergent policies adopted by universities. The program ends with a dialogue about the uniqueness of academic sites for bullying and prescriptions for what can be done.