Why Do Parents Hate Paying College Tuition? Meet Missouri Professor Melissa Click

Forbes ^ | Nov 11, 2015 | Maureen Sullivan

[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.”

[kjam22]

[cqnc]

Guilty!

[SoCal Pubbie]

Classic!

[Rockpile]

The richest man in Cambridge is the guy with the Crayola franchise.

[uncitizen]

Silly me, I thought that was obvious.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I know. It was just fun saying it.

[Blue Highway]

Looks like the twin to a person on the show Survivor that goes by the name Chaos Kass

[Osage Orange]

Totally doubt that...........