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Why Do Parents Hate Paying College Tuition? Meet Missouri Professor Melissa Click
Forbes ^ | Nov 11, 2015 | Maureen Sullivan

Posted on 11/11/2015 9:51:03 AM PST by TroutStalker

Thanks to a student’s YouTube video, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Melissa Click has become of symbol of what many parents dread when they send their children off to college. From her bullying of students to her doctoral thesis on the whiteness of Martha Stewart and her classes in “visual literacy,” she crystalizes the view that tuition dollars are spent on nonsense, and sometimes worse. As Missouri high school students prepare their applications this fall, they are looking at paying over $25,000 for a year on campus and non-residents will have to pay over $40,000.

When the president of MU and the chancellor of the main campus in Columbia stepped down Monday following protests that they were insensitive to racial issues, Click and other members of the faculty went to work enforcing their self-created ban on the media. Click was captured on video harassing student journalists and calling in “muscle” to prevent one from documenting the tent city that had gone up on the campus quad, a public area that was known as a “safe space.”

That an assistant professor of “mass media” in the department of communication was unaware of the instantaneous power of YouTube and social media is another reason for parents to wonder about the wisdom of spending their money on Click. She teaches in the College of Arts and Sciences rather than the vaunted School of Journalism, but that didn’t keep fans of the First Amendment from weighing in. The National Press Club called on the university to advise students and staff that they shouldn’t keep reporters from reporting “and certainly not through physical force or threats.”

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To: miss marmelstein

I agree... I guess you get a doctorate in 19th century literature so you can teach it in college. Outside of that you spent a lot of money on a doctorate of little value? I dunno..... But yeah.... she did not learn much from it. Extremely liberal, vegan, and living in the heart of a conservative area. She joked about putting up a Bernnie Sanders sign in her yard. I told her it probably wouldn’t be a good idea....


41 posted on 11/11/2015 10:18:20 AM PST by kjam22
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To: bboop
11/11 update. Melissa Click RESIGNED today, one fast step ahead of being fired, I bet.

But she's not GONE. She only resigned her "courtesy appointment" at the J-School. She's still on the faculty of the Communication Department. She needs to be fired and be gone-gone.
42 posted on 11/11/2015 10:18:41 AM PST by sonjay
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To: bboop
11/11 update. Melissa Click RESIGNED today, one fast step ahead of being fired, I bet.

No, she resigned her "courtesy appointment" to the School of Journalism (which was already in the process of voting to revoke it). She remains an assistant professor at the undergraduate college.

43 posted on 11/11/2015 10:21:20 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: capt. norm

A hardcore Marxist (feminist) who hates God and God’s Design of the Human body and one who EJECTS Natural Law Theory (basis of American Jurisprudence and a true “Justice” System).

She has a mind and worldview of a Statin or Lenin or a Marx who wants to kill and enslave anyone who doesn’t “think” like she does. She promotes killing babies and selling baby parts. She promotes sodomizing others to little children-—as “normal” and “good”-—the muslim harem-boy ethics.

And her mind is based on satanic Marxism (group, herd, and hate and isolate and kill)-—totally devoid of the Founding Christian Worldview of “Love” your enemies, which created Individualism and Individual Natural Rights which only come from God, never the State or her (which makes her so angry and full of rage).

This irrational, evil person needs to be fired and removed so she can not indoctrinate our children. Marxists are evil and promote hatred and removal of God —He who gives us our Individual Natural Rights in America. She needs OUT of the “teaching” field.


44 posted on 11/11/2015 10:21:20 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

For your first sentence alone, I hereby award you a Master’s Degree in Something or Other.

On now to your PhD. Suggested topic: Does Kim K have a butt?


45 posted on 11/11/2015 10:22:05 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Servant of the Cross

Why the bad photo shop job on the hat?


46 posted on 11/11/2015 10:23:22 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: The Toll
She gone!

No, she's not.

She a professor in the Communications department. This is not part of the School of Journalism. She had a "courtesy appointment" that allowed her to also teach journalism courses. She "resigned" from this "courtesy appointment". It's being played up like she's resigned from the University, but she hasn't.

47 posted on 11/11/2015 10:23:25 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Teacher317

Ask American Thinker (from whence it came) ...


48 posted on 11/11/2015 10:25:09 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: pocat

ping


49 posted on 11/11/2015 10:25:28 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: bboop
Now Janna Basler, who also works for the college, should follow Click out the door for inciting the crowd to assault the other photographer.


50 posted on 11/11/2015 10:25:49 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: kjam22

I’ll quibble with you on one thing. If you are going to teach literature, and degree in 19th British literature might be just the thing.

On the other hand, the identity studies (women’s, the various ethnic studies) all wind up being fraudulent. Click’s own studies are of that ilk. Why would anyone spend money to be educated by someone like this? Its child abuse.


51 posted on 11/11/2015 10:26:09 AM PST by marron
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To: kjam22

People who get these degrees become either teachers or writers. My favorite college professor (a doctor) taught romantic poetry. In-depth study of English literature can turn a person into a fully-rounded, intellectual person. It’s a lifelong study, actually. I just wish I had had the time to continue my studies past my BA.

If she sticks to her subject, and doesn’t natter on about social issues, she just might be a good teacher. Check her out on Rate Your Professor!


52 posted on 11/11/2015 10:27:09 AM PST by miss marmelstein (I support Trump but refuse to engage in the lynching of Ben Carson.)
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To: bboop

I don’t think she resigned.

She resigned her “courtesy appointment” in the School of Journalism. She is still an assistant professor in the Department of Communications.


53 posted on 11/11/2015 10:27:32 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: tacticalogic

We not done then. : )


54 posted on 11/11/2015 10:28:43 AM PST by The Toll
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To: savagesusie

Check out her facebook page. She has at least 3 kids - all boys if I remember correctly.


55 posted on 11/11/2015 10:29:10 AM PST by miss marmelstein (I support Trump but refuse to engage in the lynching of Ben Carson.)
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To: All

Harcourt Fenton Mudd, what have you been up to? Have you been drinking again? You answer me!

56 posted on 11/11/2015 10:29:32 AM PST by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
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To: LS

If football becomes politicized, it will collapse as people lose interest. (I think...)


57 posted on 11/11/2015 10:29:47 AM PST by marron
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To: Teacher317

I believe the hat is stolen from a very popular internet meme involving a corny white kid that thinks he’s a gangsta.


58 posted on 11/11/2015 10:33:59 AM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll
We not done then. : )

Nope. She's going to lay low and wait for it to blow over, then go back to business as usual if she can get away with it.

59 posted on 11/11/2015 10:35:44 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: bboop

Look again. She “resigned” from a post that was not real in the first place. If you think she quit her actual assistant professorship that puts taxpayer money in her pocket, you’re not paying attention.


60 posted on 11/11/2015 10:36:03 AM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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