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Explaining the UM System

Explaining the UM System

Claire Mitzel March 8, 2016

After the resignations of former Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin and former UM System President Tim Wolfe in November, questions have been raised about how the UM System operates and the roles of its president,...

Project of the Week: Breaking down Clery releases since 2011

Project of the Week: Breaking down Clery releases since 2011

Peter Baugh, Tessa Weinberg March 7, 2016

This past Saturday, students received an email with the first Clery release sent since July 5, 2015. Notified of an attempted sexual assault that took place in the area of Mumford Hall, the MU Police Department...

Spike Lee films Concerned Student 1950 for ESPN digital short

Spike Lee films Concerned Student 1950 for ESPN digital short

Alec Lewis March 7, 2016

Oscar-nominated film director and entertainment icon Spike Lee came to MU to shift the narrative, said Marshall Allen, an original member of student movement Concerned Student 1950. Lee has been on campus...

Concerned Student 1950 protests Working Group

Concerned Student 1950 protests Working Group

Alyssa Bessasparis March 7, 2016

Concerned Student 1950 protested MU’s continual lack of administrative action to end systemic racism on March 7. “The Working Group ain’t working,” Concerned Student 1950 organizers and supporters...

Board of Curators strays from faculty review process in Click firing decision

Alyssa Bessasparis March 5, 2016

Melissa Click’s [firing Feb. 24](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2016/2/25/melissa-click-fired-board-curators/) for her actions during last semester’s Concerned Student 1950 protests has raised...

Concerned Student 1950 clarifies letter from Chuck Henson

Concerned Student 1950 clarifies letter from Chuck Henson

Thomas Oide March 1, 2016

Founding member of Concerned Student 1950 Maxwell Little said Chuck Henson’s letter to the student activist group last Thursday was misinterpreted by the [Columbia Missourian](http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/chuck-henson-mike-middleton-suggest-concerned-student-end-demands/article_86bcba62-dc18-11e5-ac6b-8fecdf9531f5.html). Henson,...

Click’s firing sparks discussions on faculty job security, free speech

Click’s firing sparks discussions on faculty job security, free speech

Claire Mitzel March 1, 2016

A professor’s firing rarely makes national news. But since November, Melissa Click’s name has become a narrative of its own, culminating with her firing Feb. 25. Her story is well-known. Following...

Melissa Click’s classes will continue being taught by guest faculty

Taylor Blatchford February 29, 2016

Even before assistant communication professor Melissa Click [was fired](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2016/2/25/melissa-click-fired-board-curators/) by the UM System Board of Curators last Thursday,...

Click believes more context necessary for report leading to her termination

Click believes more context necessary for report leading to her termination

Kyra Haas February 29, 2016

Immediately following [assistant communication professor Melissa Click’s suspension on Jan. 27](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2016/1/27/melissa-click-suspended-um-system-board-curators-p/), UM System...

Curators’ decision to fire Click highlights Foley’s shift in opinion

Curators’ decision to fire Click highlights Foley’s shift in opinion

Claire Mitzel February 27, 2016

In exactly a month, interim Chancellor Hank Foley went from assuring MU that professor Melissa Click wouldn’t be fired until her tenure process was completed to saying that he was in agreement with the...

Chat with the Chancellor includes several conversations about Melissa Click

Chat with the Chancellor includes several conversations about Melissa Click

Tess Vrbin February 27, 2016

The crowd was small at first for this week’s Chats with the Chancellor, an informal conversational forum hosted by interim Chancellor Hank Foley. Students and professors milled about beforehand and...

Melissa Click fired by Board of Curators

Melissa Click fired by Board of Curators

Taylor Blatchford, Nancy Coleman February 25, 2016

Melissa Click was fired after the UM System Board of Curators voted 4-2 in a closed meeting on Wednesday. Board of Curators Chairwoman Pamela Henrickson said Click, an assistant communications professor,...