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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The University of Missouri Board of Curators says that embattled communications professor Melissa Click has been suspended pending further investigation. The board has directed its general counsel to conduct an immediate investigation and collaborate with the city attorney in Columbia in light of a misdemeanor assault charge filed against her this week.

Click has pleaded not guilty to the charge stemming from a campus run-in with student journalists during protests in November.

A spokeswoman for Columbia's city prosecutor says that her attorney entered the plea on Click's behalf Tuesday in municipal court. Click's arraignment was waived. Another court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 16.

The charge was filed Monday. Click had a confrontation with a student photographer and a student videographer on Nov. 9 during protests over what some saw as university leadership's indifference to racial issues. Click called for "some muscle" to help remove the videographer from the protest area on the Columbia campus.

The confrontation happened on the day the university system's president and the Columbia campus' chancellor resigned.