MU faculty debates keeping academic freedom wording in defunct irresponsibility rule

When the UM System Board of Curators fired MU assistant professor Melissa Click in February 2016, some faculty members thought campus bylaws about "faculty irresponsibility" were ignored. "We had a major breakdown of our discipline procedures in part because the curators simply chose not to use them in a sensational case, and that's on the curators," MU Faculty Council member Ben Trachtenberg said during a faculty forum Tuesday.