Just checked and learned that Fayneese Miller, the president who declared that #HamlineUniversity must subordinate academic freedom to religious dogma, will "retire" in 2024. Good to hear she's leaving in disgrace, but that still leaves a long time for her to impose her authoritarian ways on the school. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/us/hamline-university-prophet-president-fayneese-miller.html

#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=

Panelists discuss how the #HamlineUniversity controversy could have been handled better in a diverse culture
https://baptistnews.com/article/panelists-discuss-how-the-hamline-university-controversy-could-have-been-handled-better-in-a-diverse-culture/

#HamlineUniversity and how #liberals finally stood up against the #myth of #Islamophobia

The #catalyst was the #attack on #SalmanRushdie: https://sweethappiness.substack.com/p/hamline-university-and-how-liberals

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

https://flip.it/Af_NAd

#HamlineUniversity faculty call on President Miller to step down over #Islamophobia controversy
https://www.twincities.com/2023/01/24/hamline-university-faculty-call-on-president-fayneese-miller-to-step-down-over-islamophobia-controversy/

#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/

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

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

https://flip.it/XXfMht

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

https://flip.it/ecUDtd

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
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/hamline-lawsuit-prophet-muhammad-religion.html

Update, eine begrüßenswerte Entwicklung: #HamlineUniversity hat selbstkritisch die Beschuldigung zurückgenommen, die Dozentin habe 'islamophob' gehandelt, & die Bedeutung akademischer Freiheit betont. #Wissenschaftsfreiheit
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/hamline-lawsuit-prophet-muhammad-religion.html

Let those who value freedom rise again
In defense of rights both now and then
No prejudice here should thrive
No "Islamophobic" jive
Let respect and liberation reign

#hamlineuniversity #rights #academicfreedom #liberation #ode #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/hamline-lawsuit-prophet-muhammad-religion.html

Fired #Minnesota professor suing #HamlineUniversity
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/minnesota-professor-fired-for-showing-image-of-prophet-muhammad-sues-hamline-university/89-84985dd6-0809-444e-a679-7556bd5b03ba

Here is the Muslim Public Affairs Council Statement of Support for Art Professor Fired from #HamlineUniversity. “…Even if…many Muslims feel uncomfortable with such depictions, Dr. Prater was trying to emphasize [that]…religions are not monolithic in nature, but rather, internally diverse. This principle should be appreciated in order to combat #Islamophobia, which is often premised on …viewing the #Islamic tradition in an essentialist and reductionist manner.…” | https://www.mpac.org/statement/statement-of-support-for-art-professor-fired-from-hamline-university/?mc_cid=0dc10449e9&mc_eid=4d7120f9f8 2/2

Art History Faculty Statement on Recent Events at #HamlineUniversity. ‘…the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s statement…affirmed Dr. López Prater’s lecture as useful…”to combat narrow understandings of #Islam” &… “to combat #Islamophobia” writ large. Such a perspective does not obviate …the need for sustained conversation when…cultural offense occurs. …#AcademicFreedom…is currently under threat, a precarity made worse specifically by…the underpaid adjunct gig economy…” https://cla.umn.edu/art-history/news-events/news/art-history-faculty-statement-recent-events-hamline-university 1/2

#HamlineUniversity 's president continues to insist that #AcademicFreedom is really cool except that it can be weaponized so they had no choice but to fire that instructor except that they actually didn't but they really could have because the campus code required it though it though it actually didn't. :ablobfoxdundundunowo:

https://www.thefire.org/news/hamline-university-president-triples-down-defending-instructors-nonrenewal-showing-muhammad?fbclid=IwAR1Cuke_3fB8YLskSk-lpKo-g1VqOAUhe5E4GPan5xHFLtneJARgTIjlpS8

The #MedievalAcademyOfAmerica weighs in on the incident of an #adjunct art history professor getting fired at #HamlineUniversity:
https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/medieval-academy-of-america-statement-on-the-case-of-hamline-university-and-dr-erika-lopez-prater/

The statement draws attention to how little protection “precariously employed” adjuncts have against violations of their academic freedom. I would argue that it also shows how much power non-faculty administrators, “deans and deanlets,” have gained over even full-time faculty in the modern university.

#ArtHistory Faculty Statement on Recent Events at #HamlineUniversity
https://cla.umn.edu/art-history/news-events/news/art-history-faculty-statement-recent-events-hamline-university

#HamlineUniversity under fire for art professor’s dismissal
https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national/ap-hamline-university-under-fire-for-art-professors-dismissal/