Melissa A. Click, the University of Missouri assistant professor who was charged with misdemeanor assault
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Melissa A. Click, the University of Missouri assistant professor who was charged with misdemeanor assault this week for her role in an altercation with a student journalist in November, must complete 20 hours of community service and not break the law for a year to avoid prosecution, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
The Missouri system’s Board of Curators suspended Ms. Click on Wednesday, saying it would launch an investigation, and acknowledged the possibility of “additional discipline.” Faculty leaders have urged the board to rely on “existing procedures” in its investigation.
Ms. Click was vilified by free-speech advocates in November after she was caught on video calling for “some muscle” to remove a student journalist from an area where protesters had congregated shortly after the system’s president, Timothy M. Wolfe, and the flagship’s chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, said they would resign. Ms. Click subsequently apologized, and has not responded to media requests for comment.
Ms. Click’s suspension followed a demand from more than 100 Republican state lawmakers that the professor step down. More than 100 faculty members responded with a letter of support.
