COLUMBIA, Mo. — A University of Missouri assistant professor who called for “some muscle” as she tried to remove journalists from a campus protest last year was charged on Monday with misdemeanor assault, court documents showed.

A university police department warrant, filed in municipal court by the Columbia city prosecutor, Steve Richey, said that on Nov. 9, the assistant professor, Melissa A. Click, assaulted a videographer “by grabbing at his camera with her hand and attempting to knock it from his grasp” and “by calling out and asking for other people in the area at the time to forcefully remove him.”

Ms. Click, 45, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

At a news conference on Monday afternoon, Henry C. Foley, the school’s interim chancellor, dismissed calls for Ms. Click’s immediate firing, but said the charge would be one factor in a review of her application for tenure.

He said she was teaching from home this week on the recommendations of Michael O’Brien, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Mitchell S. McKinney, the chairman of the department of communication.