Sounds like UMass Dartmouth has some serious staff relations issues to work on.

Erin Smith of The Boston Herald reported.

UMass Dartmouth professor quits, rips administrators

Clyde W. Barrow, a prominent political scholar at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is leaving the school, accusing administrators of hiding behind security systems and driving away hordes of senior faculty, according to an open letter of resignation he sent to the Herald.

“I’ve had enough and you hear the same thing from others, ‘I’ve had enough,’ ” said Barrow, director of the school’s Center for Policy Analysis. “There’s absolutely no collaboration or two-way communication on that campus at all.”

Barrow, who accused Chancellor Divina Grossman of “abusive” treatment that is forcing out staff, said he plans to officially leave this summer to take a job at another university, which he wouldn’t name.

“It is important to mention that no one is leaving UMass Dartmouth because of last year’s tragedy,” wrote Barrow in the letter, referring to the Boston Marathon attacks and accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was a student at the school. “Instead, the real underlying problem at UMass Dartmouth continues to be an administrative crisis that is getting worse as senior administrators literally isolate themselves from the campus behind multiple walls of bullet proof glass, key code security systems, body guards, and newly constructed safe rooms. Yet, hiding from the truth does not change the fact that the individuals who are leaving UMD account for millions of dollars in grants, fundraising, and public service contracts, as well as hundreds of scholarly publications, and thousands of media mentions that will no longer carry the UMD imprimatur.”

UMass Dartmouth spokesman John T. Hoey denied Grossman or any other administrator had been abusive or pushed out top faculty.

“People are leaving for other opportunities and people are coming here for opportunities. That’s the nature of academics,” Hoey said. “It’s part of the natural evolution of any university in this day and age where institutions are changing very rapidly.”