Oh the irony. Students are denied due process all the time, but now this is a big problem, apparently.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports.

Melissa Click firing lands University of Missouri on association censure list for third time

The American Association of University Professors voted unanimously at its annual meeting Saturday in Washington, D.C., to place the University of Missouri on its censure list for the third time, a move that essentially finds MU guilty of violating academic due process to fire Melissa Click for interfering with reporters covering November protests.

The action has been expected since May 19, when the association issued a scathing investigative report that concluded the Board of Curators circumvented the university’s established rules for faculty discipline and succumbed to political pressure for her removal.

Nicole Monnier, associate teaching professor of Russian at MU, said about 100 voting members of the association attended the session to consider the report. She said she asked the assembly to approve the motion for censure because the curators’ investigation of Click was irregular and could be a precedent for unilateral action against any faculty member in the future.

“For a number of us it carries enormous weight and shame,” Monnier said in an interview after the vote. “It means we have been singled out as a university that does not respect its policies and practices.”

Click could not be reached for comment Saturday.