MacEwan joins a small group of universities ...
MacEwan isn't the first Canadian university to engage in Academic Mobbing.
At the University of Toronto, Nancy Olivieri discovered an adverse side effect in a drug she was testing in clinical trials. Apotex pharmaceuticals demanded she suppress the data, citing their confidentiality agreement. The University Research Ethics Board directed her to publish the data. She published. She found herself the subject of anonymous complaints. Without warning and with great public fanfare, Senior University Administrators shut down her research laboratory and escorted her from the University. Independent investigations found that her colleagues, also sponsored by Apotex, were submitting the false complaints. They also discovered a smoking gun: Apotex made a multimillion dollar donation conditional on the University ousting Olivieri. Neither the faculty involved, Administrators involved, University, nor Apotex fared well when this became public.
At Simon Fraser University, Roland Pomeroy was a prominent scientist who discovered and reported the mismanagement of research funds by another researcher. The researcher was investigated and resigned. However, the researchers' colleagues (including some Administrators) targeted Pomeroy.
Two years ago, Pomeroy set up a website to present his story. That website remains unchallenged by SFU.
At MacEwan, was I mobbed because I discovered Administration submitted policies to the MacEwan Board of Governors under false pretenses? because I advocated for changes that Administration didn't like? because a colleague was jealous of my pedagogical scholarship? because Pearson Education wanted to suppress a textbook they feared and couldn't control? because Administration wanted to reinforce their authority over faculty? Or was it a combination of all of these?
MacEwan is unique in that Administration managed to convince the Faculty Association to turn a blind eye.
All of these universities must live with the publicity of these Academic Mobbing events.
How many other incidents of Academic Mobbing go unpublished?