…and in violation of its own procedures in the way it dismissed Assistant Professor Melissa Click.  Just to be clear about the differences from the Salaita case:  Click was not a tenured professor, and she was not fired for her scholarly or political views.   Click pretty clearly did engage in inappropriate conduct, but she was still entitled to a formal faculty review prior to Board action, as the comments from Missouri law professor Ben Trachtenberg make clear.  However, she is unlikely to have any meaningful legal remedy, given that the same result probably could have resulted from the regular procedures, and the Board's action was not wholly capricious or without any review and evaluation.  Alas, like the University of Illinois incident, or the Barnett case at the University of Colorado, or the earlier Churchill case at Colorado, or the LSU case of the "vulgar" professor, it's now quite clear that controversial speech is no longer protected by tenure or due process, the way it once was in public universities.  And, alas, the APA's irresponsible "civility" statement plays right into the hands of this administrative mischief.