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New policy at UW-Madison aims to discourage faculty bullying

Derogatory remarks. Unwarranted physical contact. Sabotage of a colleague’s work. Use of threats or retaliation in the exercise of authority. Sounds like seriously bad behavior in the workplace, especially for faculty at Wisconsin’s flagship university. But Soyeon Shim, dean of the School of Human Ecology, says she has heard of many incidents fitting one or all of those behaviors at UW-Madison.