The top management of the University of Missouri may have resigned over vague “failure” to “do enough” to combat racism, but the professor who sought “muscle” to trample the First Amendment will continue to collect her paycheck.  Despite this, numerous media, including the Fox News Channel this morning, have reported that she “resigned,” as if she has paid the ultimate work life price for her attempted thuggery.  That is nonsense. Assistant Professor Melissa Click has merely resigned from a “courtesy appointment” in the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, a separate entity from the Department of Communications, in which she holds her salaried teaching position.  The main effect of a courtesy appointment is to enable her to sit as a member of the thesis committees of doctoral candidates in the J-school.  For the record, the MU J-school is generally regarded as one of the top 3 schools of...(Read Full Post)