The University of Missouri’s governing board voted unanimously to reject the appeal filed by a former communications professor fired last month after she was captured in a video calling for “some muscle” to move a reporter from a demonstration last fall on the university quad.

The board of curators said the appeal, which Melissa Click filed shortly after her Feb. 24 firing, “brought no new relevant information.” Ms. Click’s job paid $58,000, and she was up for tenure this year.

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