A budget proposal unveiled by a senior Missouri legislator on Tuesday would strip the salaries of Melissa A. Click, the communication professor suspendedafter she was charged with assault for her role in an altercation at a campus protest, and two other University of Missouri employees, The Columbia Missourian reports.
The chairman of the House Budget Committee, Tom Flanigan, a Republican, said on Tuesday that the committee would seek to cut the Columbia campus’s appropriations by the exact sum of the salaries of Ms. Click, the chair of her department, and the dean of the College of Arts and Science.
