The faculty at Oregon Health & Science University feels burned out, doesn’t have confidence in the executive leadership and have experienced discrimination and harassment, according to survey results released this week to The Lund Report. OHSU conducted the anonymous survey last spring.
The numbers speak for themselves. Among 2,026 faculty members, 29 percent (576) indicated they had experienced discrimination or harassment, while 44 percent (877) said they’d observed such incidents. Yet, only 110 people -- 5 percent of the respondents – said they had reported what they’d witnessed to their supervisor.
These numbers trouble David Robinson, PhD, executive vice provost, who spoke with The Lund Report.
“We do have harassment and discrimination going on, and it’s something we need to deal with; in the future I want those numbers to be zero,” he said. “We have no tolerance for discrimination, and intend to take a deep dive to come up with initiatives to address these problems.”
Read the full article from The Lund Report here.