Inside Higher Ed: Mentally Untenured
Tenure couldn’t protect one professor coping with a mental illness crisis at Pasadena City College in California.
Yves Magloe, an instructor of English as a second language for six years prior to last fall, says that he tried the best he could to continue teaching classes at the community college after he began experiencing manic delusions as a result of his bipolar disorder, which was first diagnosed in 2000. But, after his medications failed him last October, it became an insurmountable task.
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