Spirit Murdering and Mobbing: Working Strategies for Underrepresented Minority Facuty Survivors of Academic Workplace Bullying

Workplace bullying impacts 58-62% of higher education faculty and administrators with the percentage being higher for underrepresented minority (URM) colleagues. I often serve as an educational consultant who has helped over 350 colleges and universities cope with workplace bullying, microaggressions, and discrimination. In turn, I am in a rare position to follow the experiences of Ridley Price, a URM professor who endured malicious bullying for over six years. Meanwhile, their institution sat idly by and enabled the bullies. In this context, the narrative reflecting Ridley Price's bullying and mobbing experiences embraces Freire's theoretical approach regarding oppressed populations. The narrative chronicles Professor Price's protracted abuse, the institutional betrayal that enabled the bullies, and the impact on Ridley's health. In addition to documenting the depth of Ridley's bullying and harassment experiences, this narrative also includes practical strategies to offset the severe health problems which developed at the hands of the mob, identified as Dean Ty and Company.