Ohio State professor who resigned sues university for not accommodating her disabilities

[Floyd R. Turbo]

A former Ohio State University professor has filed a lawsuit against her former employer in federal court, claiming the school and several of its leaders violated her civil rights by not accommodating her mental health disabilities and denying her medical leave.

Angela Bryant, who taught sociology at Ohio State's regional campus in Newark from 2007 to 2020, filed the suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus, asking a judge to force the university to reinstate her.

In addition to Ohio State, the lawsuit names university President Kristina M. Johnson, Provost Melissa Gilliam, Dean and Director of the Newark campus William MacDonald and chair of OSU's Department of Sociology Kristi Williams.

In the fall of 2020, Bryant sent a profanity-laden email to Ryan King, telling him she was resigning from her tenured position.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2022/04/21/former-professor-sues-ohio-state-not-accommodating-her-disabilities-osu-mental-health/7380513001/

[MichMan]

1. Claims she doesn't remember resigning

Effective today at 10:50 AM, on 11/10/2020 from my WORK COMPUTER.... I resign! Go (expletive) yourselves bc you are about to PAY UP! Sincerely, DR. Angela NICOLE Bryant," she wrote.


King, then-chair of Ohio State's sociology department, replied to Bryant two days later saying that he had accepted her resignation and that her last day with the university would be two weeks later on Nov. 24. But Bryant told The Dispatch last month that she made what she now calls a regrettable decision to resign while experiencing a mental health crisis brought on by bipolar and post-traumatic stress disorder.

[jcgoldie]

2. Plenty of folks I would like to tell "Go fuck yourselves" ...

Somehow it doesn't seem like a sound career move.

[MichMan]

3. Seems like a professor who loses her temper like that and claims she doesn't remember doing so

Shouldn't be allowed to teach students anyway.

What kind of outburst might she unleash on one of her students?