Hamline College's full-time school members voted 71-12 on Monday to name for the resignation of President Fayneese Miller, The Pioneer Press reported.
Miller's administration known as it “undeniably thoughtless, disrespectful and Islamophobic” and “an act of intolerance" for an adjunct professor, Erika López Prater, to have proven a picture of Muhammad at school within the fall. Lopez Prater additionally didn’t get rehired for the spring semester. Tutorial freedom advocates have criticized Miller, and have famous that López Prater warned her college students about what she was going to do.
"We’re distressed that members of the administration have mishandled this situation and nice hurt has been completed to the status of Minnesota’s oldest college,” stated a press release the college adopted. "As we now not place confidence in President Miller’s means to guide the college ahead, we name upon her to right away tender her resignation to the Hamline College Board of Trustees.”
A Hamline spokesman stated Miller was discussing along with her staff how one can reply.
In a joint assertion Jan. 17 with the chair of Hamline’s board of trustees, Miller stated "generally we misstep" and that it was “flawed” to have used the phrase “Islamophobic” to explain the incident. The assertion got here out the identical day López Prater sued the college.