My brother goes to Mizzou and actually said she had a decent reputation as a professor before this whole thing happened. But as of the past year, she's obviously gone completely off the deep end. She's the left coast's problem now.

Here is the warm fuzzy (unfurrowed brow) picture she provided to the campus newspaper - The Gonzaga Bulletin:

Quote:Jonathan Rossing, Communication Studies Department Chair -
"We didn’t really factor much of the past in. Of course, I have to say, we knew about it. It was not something that was hidden. What we focused on was Dr. Click’s record as a teacher."

Click Flick Chick

(09-05-2016 09:21 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  Here is the warm fuzzy (unfurrowed brow) picture she provided to the campus newspaper - The Gonzaga Bulletin:

Quote:Jonathan Rossing, Communication Studies Department Chair -
"We didn’t really factor much of the past in. Of course, I have to say, we knew about it. It was not something that was hidden. What we focused on was Dr. Click’s record as a teacher."

Click Flick Chick

so, that's what she looks like without a cattle prod in her a$$.

(09-05-2016 09:16 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  My brother goes to Mizzou and actually said she had a decent reputation as a professor before this whole thing happened. But as of the past year, she's obviously gone completely off the deep end. She's the left coast's problem now.

unfortunately for her, these days you're only as good as your last videotaped criminal act.

(09-05-2016 11:36 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  Gonzaga is Jesuit, not Catholic. Similar, but very different.

Jesuits aren't Catholic?

You'd better tell that the Cardinals of the Catholic Church as they must've been completely bamboozled when they named a Jesuit, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope.

Jesuits are of the Society of Jesus and most definitely Catholic. The religious society was founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola and also Saint Frances Xavier.

BTW Jorge took the name of Pope Francis, from Saint Francis Xavier honoring his Jesuit background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus
"The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J., SJ or SI) is a male religious congregation of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits.[1] …"

(09-04-2016 03:53 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/04/meliss...othing-som

Quote:Gonzaga University must be a forgiving place. Melissa Click, the former University of Missouri communications professor who was fired after assaulting a student-journalist during a campus protest, has been hired by the Catholic college.

It's a one-year, non-tenure track appointment. Click will once again teach communications.

In a statement, Gonzaga acknowledged the controversy surrounding Click but expressed confidence that she has "learned much from her experiences" at Mizzou.

It is insane to me that she has a job. Ignore politics and I feel very strongly that her behavior was unfitting for a college professor - especially a communications professor.

(09-05-2016 11:36 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  Gonzaga is Jesuit, not Catholic. Similar, but very different.

That's factually incorrect. All Jesuits are Catholic and the order sees itself as under the Pope.

They have, however, traditionally seen themselves as occupying a position outside all other Catholic administrative bureaucracies. But they are 100% Catholic.

(09-04-2016 05:00 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(09-04-2016 03:59 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  They performed an "exhaustive national search", and this was the most qualified person they could find? Were they looking for a candidate who had the highest levels of hatred for free speech and a free press, and who would publicly urinate on the constitution?

Spot on! What the hell is Gonzaga thinking? I will never forget the example of a double standard this journalism "professor" represented. She was like the angry wife of Ronald McDonald...

I think that they're just grabbing headlines under the theory that any publicity is good publicity.

(09-05-2016 11:12 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(09-04-2016 05:00 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(09-04-2016 03:59 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  They performed an "exhaustive national search", and this was the most qualified person they could find? Were they looking for a candidate who had the highest levels of hatred for free speech and a free press, and who would publicly urinate on the constitution?

Spot on! What the hell is Gonzaga thinking? I will never forget the example of a double standard this journalism "professor" represented. She was like the angry wife of Ronald McDonald...

I think that they're just grabbing headlines under the theory that any publicity is good publicity.

at missouri, that sort of publicity cost the university student enrollment and alumni donations. not all headlines are good headlines.

(09-05-2016 11:23 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(09-05-2016 11:12 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(09-04-2016 05:00 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(09-04-2016 03:59 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  They performed an "exhaustive national search", and this was the most qualified person they could find? Were they looking for a candidate who had the highest levels of hatred for free speech and a free press, and who would publicly urinate on the constitution?

Spot on! What the hell is Gonzaga thinking? I will never forget the example of a double standard this journalism "professor" represented. She was like the angry wife of Ronald McDonald...

I think that they're just grabbing headlines under the theory that any publicity is good publicity.

at missouri, that sort of publicity cost the university student enrollment and alumni donations. not all headlines are good headlines.

I don't disagree. I think that this is a huge mistake. But I'm also not the one that hired her, and I'm pretty sure that she didn't get the job because of her teaching prowess. Tell that to the Zags.

My outrage is somewhat tempered with this. It's a private school. If they want to waste money on nonsensical crap like this woman turns out then all the more power to them.

Public schools are the ones that have no business paying for this kind of crap which does absolutely nothing to further their taxpayer funded mission.

(09-05-2016 01:06 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus


They're Catholic and their boss is the Pope.

Yes, and all these universities ran by the Protestants are doing really well these days, too. Definitely no degeneracy to be seen there......oh.....wait......

(09-05-2016 11:06 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  It is insane to me that she has a job. Ignore politics and I feel very strongly that her behavior was unfitting for a college professor - especially a communications professor.

It's not a job, it's a gig. Likely pays less than it will cost her to move to Spokane (and since it's not a job, there are no benefits much less relocation aid - UAB won't even give adjuncts a parking pass).

Agree that she should never be allowed to teach in any capacity, but this "job" represents abject professional humiliation.

Here's a piece about the economic side:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...ry/404461/

but it doesn't get into the social aspect. Academia has a caste system, and adjuncts are the untouchables.

(09-05-2016 11:10 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(09-05-2016 11:36 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  Gonzaga is Jesuit, not Catholic. Similar, but very different.

That's factually incorrect. All Jesuits are Catholic and the order sees itself as under the Pope.

They have, however, traditionally seen themselves as occupying a position outside all other Catholic administrative bureaucracies. But they are 100% Catholic.

That's more or less what I was getting at. San Francisco is a Catholic school. Creighton and Gonzaga are Jesuit schools. A Catholic school could be started by a local archdiocese or Catholic priest and isn't subject to nearly as much scrutiny as the Society of Jesus schools, which are run by a Catholic body but move in a block together.

By the way, this thread, given its title, is useless without this:

Adjunct positions are basically academic slave labor. You make $4500 for a class or so, no benefits, no promise of rehiring. Since you only teach 2-4 classes... money is terrible. Part time gig.

It doesn't sound like she is an adjunct.

(09-06-2016 09:48 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  It doesn't sound like she is an adjunct.

On there website she is simply listed as "lecturer" which would assume adjunct. There are senior lecturerers, assistant prof, full prof (tenured) listed as well.

So either an adjunct or for her at best maybe a professor of practice.

Quote:Jonathan Rossing, Communication Studies Department Chair -
"We didn’t really factor much of the past in. Of course, I have to say, we knew about it. It was not something that was hidden. What we focused on was Dr. Click’s record as a teacher."

Secret other candidate final profiles:

Quote:Jonathan Rossing, Communication Studies Department Chair -
"We really factored his conservative past in. Of course, I have to say, we knew about it and we were disgusted seeing him volunteer that one time for Reagan in 1984. It was something we concentrated on and that kept our focus away from Dr. Smith’s exemplary record as a teacher."

Quote:Jonathan Rossing, Communication Studies Department Chair -
"We really factored her cisgender female identity, long happy marriage to a cisgender identified male, and two successful kids who played baseball, basketball and football in. Of course, I have to say, we knew about it and we were worried that this person, being straight, happily married, and a good parent with normal kids meant she couldn't teach Communications with all the right buzzwords and diversity we require for such an exacting subject. It was something we concentrated on and that kept our focus away from Dr. Johnson's exemplary record as a teacher."

Wonder what the next faux racial hoax crime will be this school year?