Hamline University

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/12/2023
  

  Hamline Controversy Shows How Religion and Neoliberal Administration Converge to Reject Expertise

  by Alexander Jabbari

  An instructive contrast can be drawn from a 1997 controversy over a frieze depicting Muhammad on the wall of the United States Supreme Court. Since then, post-9/11 Islamophobia, a culture of deliberate trolling under the banner of free speech, and the rise of corporate-style university management have drained the capacity for nuance.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/17/2023
  

  Blasphemy Is Not a DEI Issue

  by Joan W. Scott

  Hamline has mistaken the vital imperative of care and respect toward members of minority communities on campus with capitulation to religious censorship, which a university cannot abide. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/13/2023
  

  Hamline Administrators Won't Let the Academic Freedom Controversy Die

  Adminstrators and the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations have defended a personnel decision that academic freedom advocate have called egregious.