Hamline University President Fayneese Miller said she will retire effective next year, making the announcement a few months after the faculty called for her to resign over her handling of an uproar over Islamophobia and academic freedom.
in January for her to step down, pushing back after an adjunct professor was dropped over an art history lecture that included a Medieval-era painting of Muhammad.
A Muslim student complained about the lecture.and David Everett, associate vice president for inclusive excellence, said that “respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.”
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