Wentworth

BACKGROUND

We begin with a general overview of the factual and procedural background of the case. We discuss additional background for some of Wentworth’s arguments in the relevant discussion sections, post. Hiring, initial complaints, and hospitalization Regents hired Wentworth in 2012 as an assistant professor in the department of South and Southeast Asian Studies (department) at the University of California, Berkeley. The essential functions of the job of professor are teaching, research, and service to the department and profession. Assistant

2 professors like Wentworth receive an appraisal called a mid- career review after seven semesters of work, before being considered for tenure after 11 semesters. Wentworth had conversations with a fellow professor, Jacob Dalton, about therapy because Wentworth’s wife was unhappy. In June 2014, Wentworth wrote to Jeffrey Hadler, who was chair of the department at the time, explaining that he was late in submitting his statement for a review because his marriage was in jeopardy. Wentworth said he was suffering but would pull through. In November 2014, Hadler told Wentworth that a graduate student, Erin Bennett, had made an informal…