In the present day’s Twin Cities Pioneer Press (Josh Verges) stories:
Hamline College’s full-time school on Tuesday requested President Fayneese Miller to resign over her administration’s dealing with of a Muslim pupil’s criticism about an adjunct professor who confirmed historic artwork at school that depicted the Prophet Muhammad.
Varied Hamline directors have mentioned that what befell in an October artwork historical past class was “undeniably thoughtless, disrespectful and Islamophobic” and “an act of intolerance.” And Hamline rescinded its provide to have the adjunct professor, Erika Lopez Prater, train once more within the spring.
However after a wave of criticism from throughout the nation, Miller conceded final week that she mishandled the episode….
The article quotes the college assertion (handed 71-12, with 9 abstentions) as saying, partly:
We’re distressed that members of the administration have mishandled this situation and nice hurt has been achieved to the repute of Minnesota’s oldest college.… As we not think about President Miller’s capability to steer the college ahead, we name upon her to right away tender her resignation to the Hamline College Board of Trustees.
The article additionally notes that the American Affiliation of College Professors is investigating the matter (and certainly sending individuals in particular person to the campus to take action), and notes that the Council on American-Islamic Relations got here to the professor’s protection every week and a half in the past, overruling its native chapter chief’s opposite assertion.
