Hamline President Fayneese Miller Announces Retirement

Miller's announcement comes months after the university was embroiled in a national controversy involving an adjunct art history professor who was dismissed after showing images of the Prophet Muhammad in her fall 2022 class. A campus-wide email sent by the administration in November said that Erika López Prater's decision to show 14th and 16th-century images of the founder of Islam to students was "undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic." Some Muslims, including a student in her class who complained to administrators, believe images of Muhammad are idolatrous and should be prohibited....