Clyde Barrow, probably the most respected expert on the gaming industry in New England, has announced that he will leave the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth in July.
Barrow sent the Boston Herald a public statement entitled “The Book of Exodus” in which he asked rhetorically, “Why are so many of the institution’s most successful faculty all deciding to leave at the same time?”
Barrow has been with the university’s Center for Policy Analysis, most of it as director, for 27 years. He accused the university’s Chancellor Divina Grossman of “habitually abusive treatment,” something that a spokesman for the university called “riddled factual inaccuracies.”
The spokesman implied that Barrow’s resignation comes at a time when the university has been asking “hard questions” about the financials of the center Barrow directs.
In his statement Barrow added, “I’ve had enough and you hear the same thing from others, ‘I’ve had enough. There’s absolutely no collaboration or two-way communication on that campus at all.”
One of Barrow’s colleagues, Bal Ram Singh, called Barrow, a very prominent scholar and an internationally known figure who has done a lot of important work in this community. I don’t think there’ll be much left of the Center for Policy Analysis when he leaves,” in a remark quoted by the South Coast Today.
