Podcast: Virginia Tech Ombuds on Academic Bullying

Bryan Hanson, the Graduate School Ombudsperson for Virginia Tech, was a recent guest on "Peoples & Things," a podcast hosted by Lee Vinsel, a VT professor. Hanson talks about "Disrupting Academic Bullying" and a program with the same name that he developed for his campus.

Here's the full description:

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Bryan Hanson, ombudsperson for Virginia Tech's Graduate School, about a program he developed called Disrupting Academic Bullying, which seeks to encourage all members of academic communities to support and promote affirming environments for research and learning. Lee and Bryan talk about the reality of harassment and abuse in academic workplaces and what community members and departments can do when they experience or witness bullying. They also reflect on the limits of such programs and the use of formal bureaucratic responses to solve social and moral problems, while affirming that universities could, indeed, do a great deal more today to address such issues.

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