POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement and list of demands is seeking support. For a full list of current signatories and to sign go here. For more coverage of the pending closure of Mills College and the faculty response go here and here. Also, you can watch this powerful video presentation to Mills…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following press release was submitted by members of the faculty at Mills College. By evening Monday May 3, the voting faculty of Mills College in Oakland, CA voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution of no confidence (73% voted in favor of the resolution, 16% voted no, and 11% abstained) against…
BY HANK REICHMAN On March 17, President Elizabeth Hillman of Mills College announced that the trustees of the 169-year-old women’s college in Oakland, California, had decided to close admissions after this year and stop conferring degrees no later than Fall 2023, thereby effectively closing the school. According to Hillman, an undefined “Mills Institute” will continue…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of a letter sent yesterday to the Trustees, President, and Provost of Mills College by the chair of the University of California at Berkeley Department of Philosophy. A philosopher was among the five faculty members laid off last month by Mills trustees as part of a…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement was sent via email on Monday, July 10 by the University of California at Berkeley Faculty Association (BFA): To: Elizabeth Hillman, President, Mills College Board of Trustees, Mills College CC: Roger Sparks, Chair, Faculty Executive Committee Chinyere Oparah, Provost and Dean of the Faculty The Berkeley Faculty…
BY HANK REICHMAN On June 26, the board of trustees of Mills College, meeting behind closed doors, approved a vaguely formulated “Financial Stabilization Plan” (FSP) previously rejected overwhelmingly by the institution’s faculty. The plan calls for reducing the number of departments from 18 to 13 and the number of schools from four to three. Two…