syllabus issued at the beginning of the semester, provided trigger warnings for days before the class, and even provided a disclaimer right before displaying the slides, allowing students to skip the particular lesson. Despite these, the students chose to attend the lesson, mainly motivated by the unusual trigger warning. Notwithstanding an apology from the professor to the students and the entire class, the university administration declined to renew her contract and, a month later, publicly characterized her use of the paintings as "undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful, and Islamophobic", and "unacceptable". In the next few days, while the Dean of Students classified the professor's teaching as "an act of intolerance", President Fayneese Miller cautioned all Hamline employees that "respect for the observant Muslim students should have superseded academic freedom." Academics have criticized Hamline's approach to academic freedom and their understanding of Islam as uniformly condemning the paintings, ignoring that Muslim rulers commissioned them; art historians find the paintings to be an indispensable component of any lesson on Islamic art history. Free speech groups have taken a similar stance—PEN America labeled the termination as "one of the most egregious violations of academic freedom in recent memory." Scholars have also highlighted the increasing commercialization of higher education with little security for adjunct faculties that allow such firings. In addition, prominent Muslim advocacy organizations, including the Council on American–Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, issued statements rejecting charges of Islamophobia against the professor. In January 2023, the professor sued the university for religious discrimination and defamation; shortly after, the president withdrew her accusations of Islamophobia and acknowledged error in subordinating academic freedom to mainstream Islamic norms. A week later, most of the university's tenured faculty requested Miller's resignation. Schools and colleges College of Liberal Arts The College of Liberal Arts houses Hamline's undergraduate programs. College of Liberal Arts students can earn a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in 41 areas of study. Hamline is one of 276 Phi Beta Kappa institutions in the country. Students may also minor in 38 areas of study within the college. All students complete an internship, collaborative research, a service learning project, or field-based research. The undergraduate student to faculty ratio is 12:1 and the median class size is 18. Almost all (94%) faculty hold the highest degree in their fields. Hamline competes in 20 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic