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Each year, FIRE bestows a special dishonor upon a select group of American colleges that go above and beyond in their efforts to trample expressive freedom.
Faculty at Hamline University voted Monday to ask President Fayneese Miller to step down after the president’s failure to support art history instructor Erika López Prater’s academic freedom rights.
Today, FIRE kicks off a two-day mobile billboard campaign in Saint Paul, Minn., that will circle the campus of Hamline University on the opening days of the spring semester.
After dismissing an instructor who showed medieval artwork of the Prophet Muhammad, Hamline backtracks, announces it’s committed to academic freedom in the face of legal action and a Board of Trustees investigation.
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