Archive for the ‘It’s Been One of Those Semesters’ Category

Response to a Colleague Larry Shore Email – Part I

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Dear Gregg
Please stop referring to me in your blog posts and putting up my picture with comments like “calls himself a professor.”

larryshore

Say what?

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Colleague Billie D. Herman Flees the Coop

Sunday, November 29th, 2015

He left after Spring Semester.
regards

larryshore

I responded, of course.

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Filipino Newspaper Reports that New York City’s Human Rights Commission May Be a Resource for Bullied New Yorkers

Friday, November 20th, 2015

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Banzai! Moveon.org Petition Supporting NYS Healthy Workplace Has Hit 750

Thursday, November 19th, 2015

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CUNY University Faculty Senate Supports My Workplace Petition – Part 2

Sunday, November 15th, 2015

The University Faculty Senate is the faculty governance body for university-wide academic matters at The City University of New York. The 136 elected Senators represent 12,000 full- and part-time faculty, and provide a representative, collective faculty voice supporting faculty, and their governance bodies on the campuses of CUNY’s schools and colleges.

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Workplace Bullying and Ethical Leadership

Saturday, November 14th, 2015

Hey, Colleague Larry Shore: Shouldn’t D:F/M keep a copy of this article at the ready along with its Robert’s Rules of Order* (even if D:F/M feigns following RRoO).

In a piece he wrote several years ago, “Workplace Bullying and Ethical Leadership” (Journal of Values-Based Leadership, 2008), Professor David Yamada  “suggested that a strong test of an organization’s values and ethics is how it handles a case of severe workplace bullying perpetrated by one of its leading executives or ‘rainmakers.’ I stand behind that point today. Institutions that sweep work abuse under the rug because the perpetrator is at or near the top of the organizational chart are among the lowest of the low.”

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Wooly Bully Update: Banzai!

Thursday, November 12th, 2015

This message below posted on the Hunter-L and FM-L listservs November 8.

Because of an ally who reached out to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, my petition supporting the NYS Healthy Workplace Bill to make workplace/academic bullying illegal has shifted into high gear, leading to a propitious moment to revise strategies, from the simple to the strategic. Simple, such as, Wooly Bully Update to be replaced by The Dirty Linen Update: Silence=Complicity.

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Attention Colleague Larry Shore: Must Summer Reading

Sunday, July 19th, 2015

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Attention Bullies: October 18 – 24, 2015

Saturday, July 18th, 2015

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Attention Colleague Larry Shore: What Do You Make of This Latest Plot by Chair Jay Roman, Bill Herman, Tina Turner and “the Hunter Administration”?

Tuesday, July 7th, 2015

What’s with these folks and “the Hunter Administration,” Colleague Shore? Lost their marbles?

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