HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 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.

That’s pretty much the whole political class these days, in and out of universities. What are they so afraid of?