Hamline University grants amnesty to student encampment for Gaza

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#Bookstodon Join us at the #FemFair at #HamlineUniversity in St. Paul from 4-6PM today! We’ll have books for sale and there’ll be fun art and crafts from vendors. Raffle benefits the Tubman Center. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq8R6wbu-tq/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
HU Women’s Resource Center on Instagram: "Join the WRC for our annual FemFair feminist art show on Thursday, 4/27 from 4-6 PM in the ANDC forum! There will be art of all kinds available to purchase, peruse, or appreciate. Can’t wait to see you there!"

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Panelists discuss how the Hamline University controversy could have been handled better in a diverse culture – Baptist News Global

Institutions of higher learning must hone flexibly to respond to campus divisions over religion and race that can escalate into the kind of public controversy currently embroiling Hamline University.

Baptist News Global

Prophet #Muhammad image controversy rages on as US university staff demand president's resignation | #HamlineUniversity

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Prophet Muhammad image controversy rages on as US university staff demand president's resignation

After a professor was dismissed for showing the depictions, faculty have voted that Fayneese Miller should step down over mishandling the issue

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Hamline U. faculty call on President Miller to step down over Islamophobia controversy

Hamline’s full-time faculty say the dismissal of an adjunct professor has harmed the university’s reputation.

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#HamlineUniversity faculty voted 71 to 12 with 8 abstentions to call for the resignation of the college’s president due to the incredible mishandling of a complaint about an adjunct professor’s course. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hamline-university-fayneese-miller/
After Art Controversy, Hamline Faculty Urge Their President to Resign

Many professors said the mishandling of an incident where an adjunct displayed an image of the Prophet Muhammad is dividing the community.

The Nation

Sahar Aziz is so right about the Hamline controversy:

"Speaking past each other, these two camps miss the real problem here: the commercialisation of higher education to the detriment of students and faculty alike"

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/22/the-hamline-controversy-and-the-real-threat-to-academic-freedom

#HamlineUniversity #Hamline #academicfreedom #neoliberalism #SaharAziz #islam #cancelculture

The Hamline controversy and the real threat to academic freedom

The current debate over academic freedom and equity sparked by the events at Hamline University misses the point.

Al Jazeera

#Art professor sues #Minnesota university that fired her over complaints about Prophet #Muhammad images | #HamlineUniversity

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Art professor sues Minnesota university that fired her over complaints about Prophet Muhammad images

Erika López Prater filed a lawsuit against Hamline University, alleging it subjected her to religious discrimination and defamation.

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Art professor sues after firing over showing Prophet #Muhammad images | #HamlineUniversity

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Art professor sues after firing over showing Prophet Muhammad images

Attorneys for an adjunct art professor said Tuesday she is suing the Minnesota university that dismissed her after a Muslim student objected to depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a global art course, while the university admitted to a “misstep."

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They know Dr. López Prater has them dead-to-rights and they want to settle. That's what's going on here. If the lawsuit proceeds they're guaranteed to lose and the payout could wreck the university. #HamlineUniversity
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After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its ‘Islamophobic’ Comments

In an about-face, the school said that using the term was “flawed” and that respect for Muslim students should not have superseded academic freedom.