Campus Pride, a nonprofit organization that tracks campus climate for LGBT students, has told the University of Minnesota-Duluth that it is suspending the university’s LGBT-friendly rating after the school’s athletics department fired several employees, all of whom identified as LGBT.

In December, UMD announced it would not renew contracts for women’s hockey coach Shannon Miller and her staff. Miller had an extremely successful record at UMD including coaching several Olympians.

“After consultation with the campus LGBTQ community, Campus Pride has decided to suspend UMD from consideration in this year’s list of top-rated LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities,” Campus Pride said in a statement.

Angela Nichols, director of UMD’s GLBT Services Office said in a statement, “Our campus-wide GLBTQAI Commission met with Athletic Director Josh Berlo the week before he announced the non-renewal of the entire Women’s Hockey Coaching staff, all of whom are gay or bisexual. It’s difficult to say we’re a top-rated LGBTQ institution and behave this way.”

Campus Pride said it was the first time a school has been suspended from its list.

“The UMD Athletic Director’s handling of this matter is cause for grave concern. LGBTQ safety is shaped by incidents like this and if they are handled openly and transparently by administrators. Our hope is to see the UMD Chancellor, who has said he values LGBTQ diversity, to resolve this matter in the best interest of its LGBTQ students and overall campus climate,” Shane Windmeyer, Executive Director of Campus Pride, said in a statement. “It is in the best interest of the integrity of our annual listing to not consider UMD this year.”