U. of Virginia Audit Finds No Bullying, Only ‘Questionable’ Management by Journal Editor

An audit of The Virginia Quarterly Review released today by the University of Virginia said that Ted Genoways, the respected journal’s editor, had “questionable” managerial skills and misspent some university money. But the audit report stopped short of saying that Mr. Genoways was guilty of workplace bullying, which some journal staff members have said contributed to the suicide last summer of the magazine’s managing editor, Kevin Morrissey. The internal investigation, which was commissioned in August by the university’s new president, Teresa A. Sullivan, also said that while the university should streamline its procedures for dealing with employee complaints, it did take “appropriate actions” in dealing with complaints from the journal’s staff members about Mr. Genoways.

The Chronicle will have more on this story later today.