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They sought more information from university officials, but their request for a meeting has gone nowhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250221_Mills_DMB_00037.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250221_Mills_DMB_00037.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250221_Mills_DMB_00037-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250221_Mills_DMB_00037-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250221_Mills_DMB_00037-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250221_Mills_DMB_00037-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250221_Mills_DMB_00037-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mills College campus, pictured on Feb. 21. Students at Mills College Children’s School get access to campus lawns, trails and facilities. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, Dean Beth Kochly told them by email that the college had no plans for closure in 2025 and would provide “a definitive plan” in the next few weeks after completing an analysis of the Children School’s current operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kochly and a spokeswoman for Boston-based Northeastern University, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\">which merged with Mills College in 2022\u003c/a>, would not answer questions about what prompted the review. Debra Brown, the longtime head of the Children’s School, turned down a request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Schaeffer, a teacher and one of the leaders of the campus staff union, said the administration’s lack of transparency had left her with an unsettling impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in a lot of meetings like bargaining for the contract, so a lot of information that does come out I’m pretty aware of,” she said. “And there’s just been nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said during a recent open house, she met multiple parents searching for a new school because a nearby charter school called Urban Montessori, which enrolls 300 students,\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/01/16/these-five-oakland-charter-schools-may-close-this-year/\"> is closing at the end of this year\u003c/a>. The closure presented an opportunity to grow enrollment at the Children’s School, Schaeffer said, which is why she was perplexed to learn the school stopped enrolling new students for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']Schaeffer has a lot at stake: she earned her teaching credential and master’s degrees from Mills. After a stint teaching middle school for the Oakland Unified School District, she came back to teach at the Children’s School. This year, her daughter is a student in her combined fourth- and fifth-grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hopes administrators take into consideration the Children’s School’s role as a cutting-edge laboratory where researchers, college students and young kids learn from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, students in her class participated in a study that found their use of artificial intelligence in a debate project helped build their reasoning skills. The education professor who designed the study \u003ca href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/12/04/ai-in-education-chatgpt-for-kids/\">told Northeastern’s news site\u003c/a> that he wants to next investigate how working with an AI partner might boost those students’ literacy skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer’s students are also experimenting with a video game designed by graduate students in Northeastern’s new game science and design program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of the uncertainty and fear that people have, myself included, around education in general right now, the last thing we need to do is close a place where kids can be creative, and adults can be creative, and we can teach to question and challenge things,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This story has been updated to include the proper spelling of Lindsay Schaeffer’s name. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Schaeffer has a lot at stake: she earned her teaching credential and master’s degrees from Mills. After a stint teaching middle school for the Oakland Unified School District, she came back to teach at the Children’s School. This year, her daughter is a student in her combined fourth- and fifth-grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hopes administrators take into consideration the Children’s School’s role as a cutting-edge laboratory where researchers, college students and young kids learn from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, students in her class participated in a study that found their use of artificial intelligence in a debate project helped build their reasoning skills. The education professor who designed the study \u003ca href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/12/04/ai-in-education-chatgpt-for-kids/\">told Northeastern’s news site\u003c/a> that he wants to next investigate how working with an AI partner might boost those students’ literacy skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer’s students are also experimenting with a video game designed by graduate students in Northeastern’s new game science and design program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of the uncertainty and fear that people have, myself included, around education in general right now, the last thing we need to do is close a place where kids can be creative, and adults can be creative, and we can teach to question and challenge things,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This story has been updated to include the proper spelling of Lindsay Schaeffer’s name. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> continues to grapple with concerns about public safety, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026938/oakland-leaders-propose-plan-reopen-fire-stations-budget-crisis-threatens-more-closures\">a budget crisis\u003c/a> and a beleaguered police department, community organizers launched a campaign this week to revive the idea of creating an independent Northeastern University police force that would also patrol parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conflicting reports on the grassroots initiative, however, have led to widespread concern and confusion among students and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland Neighbors, an organization led by current and former city residents, is behind the latest campaign pushing for a police department that the private Northeastern University Oakland would operate. The organization said it did so after it was notified that the Oakland City Attorney’s Office rejected an original proposal from the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clay Burch, the university’s regional security director and a former Oakland police captain, submitted that draft memorandum of understanding to the city last year to create an independent university police department that would function alongside but separate from the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its officers would possess the same powers as those in city police departments, such as the ability to carry a weapon and to use lethal force when necessary, and the department would share jurisdiction with OPD over East Oakland neighborhoods outside of campus, according to the MOU, which was rejected in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011586\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northeastern University campus in Oakland on Oct. 29, 2024, formerly Mills College. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For Oakland specifically, first and foremost, the campus and its surroundings must be safe and inviting,” Burch said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastoaklandneighbors.org/eon-blog-specialelection2025/clay-burch-letter-to-east-oaklanders\">“letter to East Oaklanders”\u003c/a> posted on the East Oakland Neighbors’ website last week. “This town needs a procedurally just, constitutional police force that not only enforces the law — actually enforces the law — but also incorporates robust community outreach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Burch is a Northeastern University employee and was cited as such in an \u003cem>Oaklandside\u003c/em> article that reported on the campaign on Monday, he told KQED that community members are leading the newest campaign, and a university spokesperson said that article “does not represent the facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although much of the information was attributed to a Northeastern employee, none of it has been fact-checked with university leaders,” spokesperson Renata Nyul said in a statement. She did not specify what, if anything, was incorrect but said that the school has been in talks with the city about partnering in student safety initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burch said in a statement to KQED that he is not leading the campaign run by East Oakland Neighbors and that his involvement has been misrepresented. He did not give further comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Hayden, a Las Vegas resident who founded East Oakland Neighbors and used to live in Oakland, said the organization’s community outreach campaign will allow East Oakland residents to be a part of the conversation around new public safety ideas, with the goal of encouraging the city and Northeastern University to consider a revised version of the police proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011539 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241029-OAKLANDSCHOLARSHIPSTUDENTS-17-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no government involved in this, and Northeastern doesn’t have anything to do with us,” Hayden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northeastern University’s California-based campus is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011539/many-oakland-students-dont-go-to-college-this-new-scholarship-gives-some-a-chance\">located at the site of Mills College\u003c/a>, a former women’s liberal arts school in East Oakland. While the university itself is relatively secluded, rising crime rates in the area have led school officials to brainstorm ways of improving campus security and safety for the wider community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, several Oakland residents and students don’t believe that bringing in more officers will improve public safety and are worried that a police force operating outside of federal oversight and jurisdictional safeguards would pose a threat to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lack of accountability is particularly alarming in a city like Oakland, where our police department \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101891855/oakland-police-departments-brutality-corruption-and-cover-up-and-long-road-toward-reform\">remains under federal oversight\u003c/a> after decades of violence, corruption and harm to our communities,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. “This new force would operate without those same checks, granting them even greater impunity to racially profile, assault and brutalize residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks added that if the university really wanted to support the Oakland community, it would invest in affordable housing, job training programs and mental health services for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential cost of a university police force has also spurred backlash from students since this week’s campaign was publicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Michael Ford, a manager in the city’s Department of Transportation who volunteers with East Oakland Neighbors as a private citizen, Burch told him that the university would cover the total cost of the new police department, starting with $20 million for 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11855899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11855899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan starting at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/018_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan leaves Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(BethLaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s not necessarily where I want to see my tuition go,” said William Holloway, a first-year student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several students are petitioning against the proposal after this week’s news was shared in a student and alumni group chat. One student who chose to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution from the university said many of them are concerned that an independent police department will further the strain between students and locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A police force of this nature has no interest in improving East Oakland,” a petition addressed to Burch and Daniel Sachs, dean of Northeastern University’s Oakland campus, states. The petition specifically names Burch and East Oakland Neighbors as the driving forces behind the renewed push for the police department rather than the university itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More police isn’t always the answer to societal issues, and it largely fuels tensions between locals and governing bodies,” said Holloway, who is not involved in the petition. “The addition of more rather than a change of how is not something that’s necessarily going to fix things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some city officials support the idea of a Northeastern University police department. Councilmember Noel Gallo, who is interim City Council president, said he understands the school’s desire for improved safety, especially as the campus community grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017244 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/04052023_downtownoaklandreactivation-181_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland does not have enough police officers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018688/oakland-broad-cuts-public-safety-city-agencies-amid-massive-deficit\">is facing a major budget crisis\u003c/a>, and the proposal is an opportunity to fix that, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Ryan Richardson, who helped review the original proposal by Burch, said a private university having its own peace officers is not unheard of. 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"content": "\u003cp>The final class to graduate from Mills College in Oakland walked across the stage on Saturday, at the last undergraduate commencement before the 170-year-old independent women's college merges with Boston’s Northeastern University this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who haven't yet graduated are deciding whether or not to stay at the school, which will become Mills College at Northeastern University in July and open its campus to students of all genders for the first time.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"LJ Miranda, Mills College senior\"]'Regardless of how the merger changes the school, every student, every faculty member, every staff member, every alum makes Mills what it is [and] is carrying a piece of that legacy with them.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, some of those current students who haven't graduated yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Students-sue-Mills-College-saying-it-misled-them-17169370.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a>, alleging the school misled them about which programs would be available in the coming years, costing them thousands of dollars and delaying their progress toward degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Lawsuits are a part of higher education, and we will reckon with this and support our community as best we can,\" Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman told KQED on Saturday when asked about the lawsuit. \"We strongly believe that we’ll be able to serve the most students in the best possible way through the merger with Northeastern University.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the merger, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved by the Mills Board of Trustees last September after a months-long court battle with the alumnae association\u003c/a>, is necessary to resolve budget shortfalls caused by declining enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people holding their Mills College degrees stand in black cap and gowns holding bouquets of flowers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Vivian Guerrero (left) and Maureen Guerrero Nanstad (right) graduated from Mills College in Oakland on Saturday with degrees in computer science (bachelor's, Vivian) and public policy (master's, Maureen). \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kieran Turan, vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savemillscollege.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Mills College Coalition\u003c/a>, championed the college's uniqueness and decried the merger in comments to KQED on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This college is so necessary for the future as it is,\" Turan said, noting the school's diverse student body and status as having been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/145337/all-womens-mills-college-welcomes-transgender-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first women's college to accept trans students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to see Mills preserved ... We have an incredible liberal arts program. All those programs will be canceled under Northeastern. This is unacceptable. This is a historic legacy and precious institution for Oakland and the Bay Area and it needs to remain independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914211 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand posed and smiling against the backdrop of trees on a sunny day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Mahood Levin, president of the Save Mills College Coalition (second from right) and Kieran Turan, vice president (far right), attend the final commencement ceremony of Mills College along with other Mills alumnae and coalition members on May 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abi Amit, who graduated Saturday with a degree in art and technology, expressed frustration with the school, along with adoration for its students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the stuff that's been going on [with the merger] really left a sour taste in my mouth,\" said Amit. \"We have no idea what it's going to be like next semester at all because they haven't been telling the current students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I think this [commencement] is for me, and I love the people at Mills. I love the students. I love the faculty that make it what it is ... This is about celebrating their achievements. I'm just here to celebrate me and my friends and all the teachers that got me here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman ties a colorful purple lei onto another woman wearing a black graduation gown. A sunny day with clear sky and trees can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelei Bresler has a lei tied on her head by a friend at the final commencement ceremony of Mills College in Oakland on May 14, 2022. Bresler graduated with a master's in management from the business school. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Mills is not dead ... Mills did not come this far to only come this far,\" said LJ Miranda, senior student speaker in a commencement address. \"Regardless of how the merger changes the school, every student, every faculty member, every staff member, every alum makes Mills what it is [and] is carrying a piece of that legacy with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills College awarded honorary degrees to three women at Saturday's commencement, including an honorary doctorate of humane letters for Lynette Gibson McElhaney, the first Black woman to serve as president of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are grieving the loss of our beloved community and the things that are familiar,\" McElhaney told the graduating class. \"You all who are the last graduating class of Mills as we know it, are celebrating with a tinge of grief. And so I just wanted to share with you all some of what I've been learning in this decade of leading while grieving. You'll take your next step. And you will enjoy your next laugh because you will be empowered by hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration says the merger, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">approved by the Mills Board of Trustees last September after a months-long court battle with the alumnae association\u003c/a>, is necessary to resolve budget shortfalls caused by declining enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914208 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two people holding their Mills College degrees stand in black cap and gowns holding bouquets of flowers.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-32-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Vivian Guerrero (left) and Maureen Guerrero Nanstad (right) graduated from Mills College in Oakland on Saturday with degrees in computer science (bachelor's, Vivian) and public policy (master's, Maureen). \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kieran Turan, vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.savemillscollege.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save Mills College Coalition\u003c/a>, championed the college's uniqueness and decried the merger in comments to KQED on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This college is so necessary for the future as it is,\" Turan said, noting the school's diverse student body and status as having been the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/145337/all-womens-mills-college-welcomes-transgender-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first women's college to accept trans students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to see Mills preserved ... We have an incredible liberal arts program. All those programs will be canceled under Northeastern. This is unacceptable. This is a historic legacy and precious institution for Oakland and the Bay Area and it needs to remain independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914211 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Five people stand posed and smiling against the backdrop of trees on a sunny day.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-35-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Mahood Levin, president of the Save Mills College Coalition (second from right) and Kieran Turan, vice president (far right), attend the final commencement ceremony of Mills College along with other Mills alumnae and coalition members on May 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abi Amit, who graduated Saturday with a degree in art and technology, expressed frustration with the school, along with adoration for its students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the stuff that's been going on [with the merger] really left a sour taste in my mouth,\" said Amit. \"We have no idea what it's going to be like next semester at all because they haven't been telling the current students.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I think this [commencement] is for me, and I love the people at Mills. I love the students. I love the faculty that make it what it is ... This is about celebrating their achievements. I'm just here to celebrate me and my friends and all the teachers that got me here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11914207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11914207 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman ties a colorful purple lei onto another woman wearing a black graduation gown. A sunny day with clear sky and trees can be seen in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/Image-from-iOS-31-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorelei Bresler has a lei tied on her head by a friend at the final commencement ceremony of Mills College in Oakland on May 14, 2022. Bresler graduated with a master's in management from the business school. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Mills is not dead ... Mills did not come this far to only come this far,\" said LJ Miranda, senior student speaker in a commencement address. \"Regardless of how the merger changes the school, every student, every faculty member, every staff member, every alum makes Mills what it is [and] is carrying a piece of that legacy with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills College awarded honorary degrees to three women at Saturday's commencement, including an honorary doctorate of humane letters for Lynette Gibson McElhaney, the first Black woman to serve as president of the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are grieving the loss of our beloved community and the things that are familiar,\" McElhaney told the graduating class. \"You all who are the last graduating class of Mills as we know it, are celebrating with a tinge of grief. And so I just wanted to share with you all some of what I've been learning in this decade of leading while grieving. You'll take your next step. And you will enjoy your next laugh because you will be empowered by hope.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mills College will merge with Northeastern University, after a vote by the Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The partnership between the schools is expected to take effect on or around July 2022. This comes after months in court with the school’s Alumnae Association of Mills College, which has sued to get more information about the proposed deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the AAMC and Mills went to court over an ex parte application filed by an alumnae member of the board seeking to slow down the deal. The application would have extended a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885304/judge-puts-another-pause-on-mills-college-merger-allows-financial-document-review\">previously granted restraining order\u003c/a> for another 60 days, preventing any vote from taking place. But an Alameda County judge denied that request, allowing the vote to go through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An alliance with Northeastern empowers Mills to continue doing what it has done since its founding in 1852: offer exceptional educational opportunities to students who want to make a difference,” said Mills President Elizabeth Hillman in a statement Tuesday. “It also means that the Mills campus will remain a vibrant center of learning with deep and meaningful connections with the broader Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Mills President Elizabeth Hillman\"]‘An alliance with Northeastern empowers Mills to continue doing what it has done since its founding in 1852: offer exceptional educational opportunities to students who want to make a difference.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Mills College announced it would no longer be granting degrees last March, ideas have swirled about what the future might hold for the historic women’s college. First, there was a potential partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, then a planned on-campus program between the two schools that would bring UC students to the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there’s the deal with Northeastern. And on Tuesday, Hillman announced a few details about what the merger would entail. For students, Mills will continue to grant degrees up until the partnership date, at which point degrees will be from “Mills College at Northeastern University.” For faculty, Northeastern says it will “honor and abide by the terms of tenure of Mills faculty who hold a tenured position or a continuous contract and will offer tenure-track faculty and adjunct faculty opportunities for employment.” And staff will become employees of Northeastern in July 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting to this point has been hard on the entire Mills College community. And some say the many vacillations that have taken place since the college announced its plans to close have had a detrimental impact on students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">‘It couldn’t have came at a worse time\u003c/b>‘\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shay Franco-Clausen says she never thought she’d be able to go to college. Growing up in Oakland and San José, her early education was interrupted due to being an incarcerated foster youth, and higher education always felt out of reach financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she found out about Mills College. It had smaller class sizes, which would be perfect for her learning style. And she was attracted to the college’s legacy of teaching progressive leaders, like East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee. Franco-Clausen is currently the vice-chairperson of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority and says she has aspirations for national office, so Mills seemed to be the perfect fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘I want to go to Mills because I’m an elected official. I’m going to be a future Assemblywoman. I want to learn from some of the best and some of the brightest and be in spaces with women as such,'” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_11885304,news_11867137,news_11865408]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Franco-Clausen saved up money and worked out a schedule with her wife to care for their five kids. And when she applied for the school’s accelerated bachelor’s-to-master’s program in public policy, she got in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then halfway through her program, while she was sitting in class, Mills announced that it would stop granting degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It couldn’t have came at a worse time. [For] students like myself — who work, have families and [are] trying to reach our academic goals — to be hit with an interruption of our journey in our path at Mills … it’s blindsiding,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those distractions didn’t just affect students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anyone on the faculty or staff, aside from a few select higher-ups, knew anything about it coming down the pipeline,” said Roger Sparks, professor and chair of the economics department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was more confusion for students and faculty when it looked like another Bay Area giant might swoop in and provide some answers: UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that deal didn’t materialize.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘It never got to that point’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Less than a week before Mills announced that it would be forced to close, officials at the Berkeley journalism school sent an email to faculty and lecturers. In it, Associate Dean Jeremy Rue had some exciting news: Berkeley was “exploring the purchase of Mills College campus in Oakland,” and that potential acquisition could present opportunities for the journalism school — including “an entire relocation of the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were plans to form a committee at the school to look into potential options and “explore its implications and desirability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11888180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM.png 1390w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM-800x155.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM-1020x198.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-7.32.14-PM-160x31.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1390px) 100vw, 1390px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that committee was never formed. Interim Dean Geeta Anand told KQED that relocating to the school was “never seriously considered by me or any of our faculty. It just never got to that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rumored deal to purchase Mills also fell apart, though officials at both schools have declined to comment on why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Dr. Marilyn Schuster, an alumna of Mills and a member of the Board of Trustees who’s in favor of the deal with Northeastern, timeliness seems to have been a factor in the decision-making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley is part of the UC system. It’s a very complicated decision structure, and there were just other details that were taking a very long time and just didn’t work out,” she said. “I’m sorry it didn’t, frankly. I am a great admirer of what the university does. But when Northeastern started talking with us, the timing and the kinds of things that we could do in a partnership were quite attractive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One issue that has caused friction is the lack of communication between the Mills administration and the wider community. But, according to those familiar with higher education mergers of this type, keeping a deal like this under wraps isn’t unheard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Higher Education Stories\" tag=\"higher-education\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a case where the college announced: We are going to have serious conversations with Northeastern. We have a rough framework for what a deal might look like … and they revealed that they were going to have these conversations,” said Larry Ladd, senior consultant for \u003ca href=\"https://agb.org\">The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges\u003c/a>. “So I think I consider that transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Ladd said, in some scenarios, potential partnerships aren’t even made public until a deal has already been worked out, like in 2018 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.bu.edu/wheelock/magazine-article/bu-wheelock-merger-will-create-new-school-of-education/\">Boston University merged with Wheelock College\u003c/a> to create a new school of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because of the tenuous nature of the deals, it’s typical for schools to be stingy with the specifics while they’re in the midst of negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now [Mills and Northeastern] are going to have negotiations, you don’t have transparency during negotiations … they have to be done quietly and deals are made with each side doing the best to maximize its own interest,” Ladd said. “So you don’t have that public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ladd says from what he’s seen from both sides, it appears the two colleges are attempting an “identity-protecting merger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Its students would still be able to get a Mills College degree. The college would continue to advocate for its unique mission of representing women and supporting women, representing social justice issues and supporting social justice issues,” he said. “There will be various ways to preserve the stated mission of Mills, but it will not be a separate entity anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Mills community is trying to envision what their future with Northeastern might look like, the best insight into its future could lie across the pond. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Northeastern in London\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2019/02/26/northeastern-finalizes-partnership-agreement-with-new-college-of-the-humanities-in-london/\">Northeastern announced that it had finalized a partnership\u003c/a> with the New College of the Humanities in London. The small, privately owned school served about 200 students when it entered into the partnership. The new relationship added the London school’s campus to Northeastern’s network, giving students the opportunity to study across the U.S. and abroad, and allowed the school to confer degrees in the United Kingdom. It also opened up research opportunities for faculty and created new academic programs at NCH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the announcement, Northeastern officials said that under the partnership terms, “NCH at Northeastern will maintain its own faculty and staff, and will continue to oversee student admission and enrollment to the college. Its one-to-one tutorial model of personalized instruction will not change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to at least one former NCH professor, the school did go through some changes — particularly for faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monojit Chatterji taught economics at the school. He says when Northeastern came into the picture, the work increased dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Senior Consultant Larry Ladd, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges \"]‘There will be various ways to preserve the stated mission of Mills, but it will not be a separate entity anymore.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the course of the year they were told, suddenly, to do things which they had never done before, which really added to their workloads,” he said. “Their salary wasn’t cut, that’s true, but their workloads went up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatterji said that’s largely due to the vast increase in class sizes when Northeastern students began attending the small school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professors saw their class assignments change as well, Chatterji said, as a result of the leadership changes. And he said the contracts offered to faculty contained so many teaching hours that doing research felt nearly impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Chatterji decided not to pursue a new contract at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if faculty at Mills think that they’re going to be in the same working conditions that they were in before, they should think again,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northeastern did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ladd, changes are to be expected to some degree when mergers of this type take place, particularly for schools in the situation that Mills is currently in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the circumstances that Mills has experienced mean change is inevitable,” he said. “Even if the college stayed independent, it does not have the resources to continue to operate the way it has.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for those who want to keep the college intact as it is, the relationship with Northeastern felt like it was rushed, without much insight into why this option was the only viable one on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s the best path forward?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the Mills administration has moved forward on this deal, some alumnae have questioned whether or not the school could look into other financial options, like fundraising or restructuring the debt to find an outcome that would keep the school intact as-is. They said they even formally proposed some of these ideas to members of the Board of Trustees but felt their ideas were being brushed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Board of Trustees should be ashamed that they’ve brought this historic college to this state. This is their failure,” said Cynthia Mahood Levin, president of the board of Save Mills College Coalition, in a statement regarding the Northeastern deal. “They are selling out Mills College after years of poor financial mismanagement, and then claiming this sale as a ‘success.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Cynthia Mahood Levin, Save Mills College Coalition\"]‘They are selling out Mills College after years of poor financial mismanagement, and then claiming this sale as a ‘success.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Larry Ladd’s perspective, however, this deal may have been the best thing on the table for long-term sustainability — although, he said, that doesn’t mean the process isn’t painful for current and former students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their heart has been broken. … They loved it when they went there. They’ve given money to it. They feel very loyal to it. It’s a part of their own identity. And then it’s going to change in radical ways,” he said. “It’s not going to be the college they remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s clear that the uncertainty of Mills’s future has already had an impact on students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the turmoil at the college convinced Shay Franco-Clausen to switch out of the accelerated program and just pursue her bachelor’s degree. She’s now on track to finish in May 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I applied because I wanted to be a Mills graduate and because of the space it provided,” she said. “It’s been just a completely disappointing experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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That order will expire on Sept. 3 at 5 p.m., after which the board of trustees (which governs the college) would be able to proceed with a vote on the merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, the Alameda County Superior Court has intervened and ruled in favor of truth and transparency about the future of Mills College, which otherwise would continue moving forward with a merger that’s been shrouded in secrecy,” said Alexa Pagonas, vice president of the Alumnae Association of Mills College (AAMC) Board of Governors in a press release. “I’m thankful the Court realized the important and historic nature of this decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release late Monday, Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman said the school would provide the financial records per Judge Pulido’s decision, and called “the continued pursuit” of a merger with Northeastern “vital to advancing the mission of Mills and to ensuring opportunities for our students, our faculty and staff, our alumnae and the broader Oakland community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Access to financial documents\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in March, Hillman said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865408/mills-college-to-stop-offering-degrees-cites-low-enrollment-financial-woes\">in a letter\u003c/a> that the college would cease to be a degree-granting institution in 2023, citing “the economic burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic, structural changes across higher education, and Mills’ declining enrollment and budget deficits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months later — after Hillman announced that Mills would \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/announcement/index.php\">seek a merger with the Boston-based Northeastern University\u003c/a> — some alumnae members of the board of trustees filed a lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court to get more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They allege, in court documents, that the college is denying them access to crucial financial documents that are essential in exercising their “fiduciary duties” to Mills. And that there should be a review of that information before any merger is considered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the college was originally willing to allow the plaintiff and AAMC President Nakka-Cammauf to review the documents, it was only under very limited circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Judge Stephen Pulido\"]‘I’ll tell you right now, to tell a trustee that they’ve got to go alone into some room and review [these documents] without assistance from a professional … That’s not going to work.’[/pullquote]“The [AAMC] president was told she could basically sit in a room by herself with a ton of documents, thousands and thousands of pages printed out, but not make any copies and not discuss them with a lawyer or accountant,” Pagonas told KQED. “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is aimed at allowing Nakka-Cammauf to review the documents in the presence of an expert. 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The document says that, so far, three staff members at the college have resigned, with one citing “growing concerns about the future of Mills” as a reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Yonekura, the college could run out of cash as early as November or December of this year, and “under any circumstances will run out of cash by February of 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AAMC \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60de4f4aa25e053fedb84faa/t/6103d5a054377a15923f468c/1627641249151/AAMC-Alum-Survey-Responses-July-7-14-21.pdf\">conducted a survey\u003c/a> in early July asking if alums want them to pursue legal action against the college. 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"content": "\u003cp>Right in the middle of Oakland, a densely populated large urban city, sits Mills College. Originally a finishing school, the oldest women’s college on the West Coast moved to its current location in 1875. It sports architecture from notables like Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan and over time has grown into an identity rooted in inclusivity, social activism and female leadership. But many people don’t even know it’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Sara Russell describes Mills as “an oasis of nature, architecture, art, history, activism, social impact and education.” She wants to know more about the school’s music program, which has produced dozens of famous musicians, including jazz legend Dave Brubeck and singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Music Program of Possibility\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The music program at Mills is \u003ca href=\"https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/mills-college-list\">legendary,” \u003c/a>says \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmeline\">Gabe Meline\u003c/a>, KQED’s Arts senior editor. “Some big names came out of there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Dave Brubeck, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Steve Reich, Lou Harrison and Terry Riley all graduated from or taught at Mills. Meline says for most people these aren’t household names, but in certain circles they are revered for pushing the definition of jazz and for pioneering minimalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcl6dS4_HnU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I think the best word to sum up Mills’ approach to teaching music is possibility,” Meline said. “Students were just encouraged to do whatever to explore their imaginations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/academics/graduate-programs/music/center-contemporary-music/index.php\">Mills’ Center for Contemporary Music\u003c/a> is particularly famous for electronic music. Graduates include composers like \u003ca href=\"https://paulineoliveros.us/\">Pauline Oliveros\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollyherndon.com/\">Holly Herndon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sites.google.com/site/maggipayne/\">Maggi Payne\u003c/a> — a co-director of the center for 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They developed modern electronic composition in a way that is revered in serious music circles all around the world,” Meline said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Experimental Makes Its Way Into the Mainstream\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Decades later, as music production has migrated onto laptops, Meline hears echoes of the work done by Mills graduates in artists like Radiohead, Wilco, Tame Impala, Playboi Carti, Kanye West and even Justin Bieber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nntGTK2Fhb0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a big hit song a few years ago by Justin Bieber, “Where Are You Now?,” that had this squeaky little kind of dolphin sound,” Meline said. “And that sound could be traced back absolutely to people pushing and pulling tape through old tape players at Mills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills composers were a little too experimental for many mainstream listeners of their time, but music has progressed since they were first experimenting in the ’50s. Each generation builds on the work of the one before, and over time sounds that seemed completely new have become commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwJTnZOaco\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Uncertain Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Now the Mills music program is in jeopardy along with the rest of the college. Like many niche liberal arts schools, Mills has been struggling financially for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were shocked in 2019 when we learned that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13871311/mills-college-to-sell-shakespeare-first-folio-mozart-manuscript-amid-budget-woes\">Mills was selling a Shakespeare “First Folio\u003c/a>,” which is essentially the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays,” Meline said. “It’s from 1623. They sold one at Christie’s for $10 million, which was a big sign that something was seriously amiss financially and that Mills needed money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman announced in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865408/mills-college-to-stop-offering-degrees-cites-low-enrollment-financial-woes\">March 2021\u003c/a> that Mills College would stop admitting new students after the fall semester, and would likely stop granting degrees in 2023. Then, in June, she announced that the college is \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/announcement/index.php\">in negotiations with Northeastern University\u003c/a> to become a satellite campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11879052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11879052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48239_001_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48239_001_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48239_001_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48239_001_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48239_001_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS48239_001_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman at the campus in Oakland on March 24, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We realized that all of this stuff is going on behind the scenes and the key core constituencies are not being consulted,” said David Bernstein, faculty chair of the music department after the original closure announcement. 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But he’s more concerned about preserving the future of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much more institutionally that towers above the importance of the archive,” he said. “Yes, it has cultural significance, but actually the department itself is much more important than the archives. I don’t know that there are many places in the world that do what we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has been working to marshal the music program’s illustrious alumni to defend the Center for Contemporary Music and the department as a whole. He hopes that with more of the stakeholders involved, the Mills community can find a solution that allows the historic college to continue to exist in some form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Like many niche liberal arts schools, Mills has been struggling financially for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were shocked in 2019 when we learned that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13871311/mills-college-to-sell-shakespeare-first-folio-mozart-manuscript-amid-budget-woes\">Mills was selling a Shakespeare “First Folio\u003c/a>,” which is essentially the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays,” Meline said. “It’s from 1623. They sold one at Christie’s for $10 million, which was a big sign that something was seriously amiss financially and that Mills needed money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman announced in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865408/mills-college-to-stop-offering-degrees-cites-low-enrollment-financial-woes\">March 2021\u003c/a> that Mills College would stop admitting new students after the fall semester, and would likely stop granting degrees in 2023. 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"content": "\u003cp>In May 1990, Bay Area high school dropout and single mom \u003ca href=\"https://arielgore.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ariel Gore\u003c/a> was casting about for a place to get her undergraduate degree. She turned on the TV and saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mills College\u003c/a> students protesting a decision to make the historically women’s college based in Oakland co-ed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I was like, ‘Oh, my God! There are feminists at Mills and they’re having a big protest! They look like lesbians! I should go there!” Gore said. “And so I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore went on to author more than 10 books and launch \u003ca href=\"http://hipmamazine.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hip Mama\u003c/a>, an award-winning magazine about the culture and politics of motherhood. She said she was a natural introvert before she arrived at Mills. The school helped pull her out of her shell and transform her into the opinionated public figure she is today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 602px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48273_Ariel-Gore-Author-Photo-by-debbie-baxter-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48273_Ariel-Gore-Author-Photo-by-debbie-baxter-qut.jpg 602w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48273_Ariel-Gore-Author-Photo-by-debbie-baxter-qut-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mills College alum Ariel Gore \u003ccite>(Courtesy Debbie Baxter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My sort of invisibility, I could get away with that in a co-ed environment in a way that wasn’t really allowed at Mills,” Gore said. “You know, every professor in these small classes was like, ‘Well, Ariel, what do you think?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gore is among many members of Mills’ large LGBTQ community currently processing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865408/mills-college-to-stop-offering-degrees-cites-low-enrollment-financial-woes\">college’s announcement\u003c/a> that it will stop granting degrees in 2023, transform itself into a “research institute,” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/03/25/amid-an-uncertain-future-mills-college-campus-will-be-home-to-hundreds-of-uc-berkeley-students/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allow hundreds of UC Berkeley undergrads\u003c/a> of all genders to begin living on its campus this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing a unique legacy will be lost, Mills students, alumni and faculty are protesting the changes to the college, which \u003ca href=\"https://inside.mills.edu/about-mills/departments-offices/docs/Mills-Profile-2020-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">today serves\u003c/a> 609 women and non-binary-identifying undergraduates and 352 graduate students of all genders. At a rally outside campus last Friday, more than 100 Mills students and alumni \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Shocked-students-alumnae-set-to-protest-closure-16056798.php\">demanded trustees reverse their decision\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cassandra James, Mills College undergraduate\"]‘They’re going to have people walking around on sacred land. Do they understand the concept of Mills’ values and Mills’ morals? ‘[/pullquote]The growing coziness between UC Berkeley and Mills is also upsetting some students, who say they haven’t been consulted about the changes and worry that admitting hundreds of Berkeley students to campus could undermine the college’s powerful identity as a safe harbor for women and nonbinary individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to have people walking around on sacred land,” said Mills undergraduate Cassandra James, who joined the rally on Friday. “And it’s like, do they understand the concept of Mills’ values and Mills’ morals?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Legacy of Inclusivity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mills, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/uniquely-mills/history-traditions/timeline.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">founded in 1852\u003c/a>, has long shed its perfumed reputation as a finishing school for wealthy white ladies. But it took until the 1970s and ’80s for the college to become more racially inclusive thanks to the efforts of students and faculty of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look at how diverse it is now and it just warms my soul, because that was not my experience in the late ’70s,” said \u003ca href=\"https://sfgiants.mlblogs.com/employee-spotlight-renel-brooks-moon-aa59cb0cba4c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Renel Brooks-Moon\u003c/a>, who graduated from Mills in 1981 and went on to become the public address announcer for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/giants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Giants\u003c/a>. (The Baseball Hall of Fame \u003ca href=\"https://www.mlb.com/cut4/renel-brooks-moon-first-female-announcer-in-pro-sport-c297857850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recognized\u003c/a> Brooks-Moon as the first female announcer of a championship game in any professional sport for her role in the 2002 World Series.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Renel Brooks-Moon, SF Giants announcer and Mills alumn\"]‘My time at Mills really helped to nurture that appreciation for the LGBTQ community, because we were all fighting for the same thing.’[/pullquote]Today, \u003ca href=\"https://inside.mills.edu/about-mills/departments-offices/docs/Mills-Profile-2020-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">34% of Mills students identify as Latinx/Hispanic and 12% as Black or African American\u003c/a>. But Brooks-Moon said when she was studying for an English literature degree, there were very few students and faculty of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We fought to be seen and to be heard,” Brooks-Moon said, adding that Mills’ emerging LGBTQ and BIPOC communities often came together to push the campus to be more inclusive. “My time at Mills really helped to nurture that appreciation for the LGBTQ community, because we were all fighting for the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Podcaster and author \u003ca href=\"http://www.niaking.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nia King\u003c/a>, who graduated from Mills in 2011, said she was drawn to school because of its inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a Black, Lebanese, Hungarian, Jewish, queer and cis-gender woman from the Boston area,” said King, who has for the past eight years hosted and produced \u003ca href=\"https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/qtpocart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Want the Airwaves\u003c/a>, a podcast featuring interviews with queer and trans artists of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she appreciated the school’s academic rigor. King said the politically engaged ethnic studies undergrad curriculum helped shape her both as a thinker and a leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at how research has been used as a tool of colonization in the past taught me how to take embedded assumptions out of questions,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867437\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48274_Nia-King-book-launch-for-Queer-and-Trans-Artists-of-Color-Vol3-tim-abad-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48274_Nia-King-book-launch-for-Queer-and-Trans-Artists-of-Color-Vol3-tim-abad-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48274_Nia-King-book-launch-for-Queer-and-Trans-Artists-of-Color-Vol3-tim-abad-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48274_Nia-King-book-launch-for-Queer-and-Trans-Artists-of-Color-Vol3-tim-abad-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48274_Nia-King-book-launch-for-Queer-and-Trans-Artists-of-Color-Vol3-tim-abad-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48274_Nia-King-book-launch-for-Queer-and-Trans-Artists-of-Color-Vol3-tim-abad-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mills College alum Nia King, center, at a book reading in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tim Abad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But despite the strides towards racial inclusivity Brooks-Moon and her generation made at Mills, King said a legacy of feminist transphobia persisted well into the 21st century on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the rhetoric about it being an all-women’s school was very exclusionary to people that were male-identified trans students and also nonbinary trans students,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King said trans student activists like her then-partner, a trans man, fought hard to be heard. Their efforts paid off when Mills \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/145337/all-womens-mills-college-welcomes-transgender-students\">became the first women’s college in the U.S. to adopt a transgender admissions policy\u003c/a> in 2014. Today, \u003ca href=\"https://inside.mills.edu/about-mills/departments-offices/docs/Mills-Profile-2020-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than half\u003c/a> of Mills students identify as LGBTQ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mills was the trendsetter there,” said Emerald Archer, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.womenscolleges.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women’s College Coalition\u003c/a>. “And many of our institutions were looking at their policy as a model of what we could do at other institutions across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘One Fewer Resource’ as Women’s Colleges Struggle\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Archer said the number of women’s colleges in the U.S. has dropped from 230 in 1960, to 36 in 2020. Ten schools shuttered in the last six years alone. Many have had to go co-ed to stay afloat. Small schools with strong identities like Mills have struggled financially and lost students. Archer said the COVID-19 pandemic has only made matters worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic is really challenging [school] presidents and their administrations to make sure that their institutions are alive on the other side,” Archer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Archer said the pandemic has also been particularly tough on people who identify as women. It’s driven millions out of the workforce – especially women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11867137 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48245_007_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-1020x680.jpg']“This is where women’s institutions kind of get it right,” said Archer of the need for schools like Mills, where many students are the first in their families to attend college – \u003ca href=\"https://inside.mills.edu/about-mills/departments-offices/docs/Mills-Profile-2020-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">44% of Mills undergrads are first-generation college students\u003c/a>. “Places like Mills, they can catch those students. And if Mills isn’t there, that’s just one fewer resource that folks can draw on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current talks with UC Berkeley do seem to offer one possibility for Mills’ future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan to house 200 Berkeley undergraduates of all genders on the Mills campus this fall is just the latest in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/news/press-releases/us-berkeley-mills-collaboration-address-campus-challenges.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long list\u003c/a> of collaborative efforts between the small private collage and large public university. In recent years, Mills students have participated in UC Berkeley study abroad programs, and Cal students have taken biology classes on the Mills campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To continue its mission, Mills will need to work with other academic institutions, and UC Berkeley is a great institution here in the Bay Area who we’ve worked with for a long time,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/uniquely-mills/leadership-team/office-of-the-president/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mills President Elizabeth Hillman\u003c/a>. “And we are in conversations about what we might be able to do together that we can’t do apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Chicora Martin stands on grassy quad on Mills campus\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicora Martin, vice president of student life and dean of students at Mills College in Oakland on March 24, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, campus officials are speaking only in the vaguest terms about what Mills’ future as an institute will look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/uniquely-mills/leadership-team/mills-college-officers/chicora-martin.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicora Martin\u003c/a>, vice president of student life and dean of students, said whatever form the institute takes, Mills will still continue onward with its core mission of pushing for social justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we can’t grant degrees may not necessarily mean that we don’t lose what Mills can offer,” Martin said. “I’m hoping a lot of what makes Mills Mills will not be lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is where women’s institutions kind of get it right,” said Archer of the need for schools like Mills, where many students are the first in their families to attend college – \u003ca href=\"https://inside.mills.edu/about-mills/departments-offices/docs/Mills-Profile-2020-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">44% of Mills undergrads are first-generation college students\u003c/a>. “Places like Mills, they can catch those students. And if Mills isn’t there, that’s just one fewer resource that folks can draw on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current talks with UC Berkeley do seem to offer one possibility for Mills’ future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan to house 200 Berkeley undergraduates of all genders on the Mills campus this fall is just the latest in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/news/press-releases/us-berkeley-mills-collaboration-address-campus-challenges.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long list\u003c/a> of collaborative efforts between the small private collage and large public university. In recent years, Mills students have participated in UC Berkeley study abroad programs, and Cal students have taken biology classes on the Mills campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To continue its mission, Mills will need to work with other academic institutions, and UC Berkeley is a great institution here in the Bay Area who we’ve worked with for a long time,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/uniquely-mills/leadership-team/office-of-the-president/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mills President Elizabeth Hillman\u003c/a>. “And we are in conversations about what we might be able to do together that we can’t do apart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11867440\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Chicora Martin stands on grassy quad on Mills campus\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS48242_004_Oakland_MillsCollege_03242021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicora Martin, vice president of student life and dean of students at Mills College in Oakland on March 24, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, campus officials are speaking only in the vaguest terms about what Mills’ future as an institute will look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/uniquely-mills/leadership-team/mills-college-officers/chicora-martin.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicora Martin\u003c/a>, vice president of student life and dean of students, said whatever form the institute takes, Mills will still continue onward with its core mission of pushing for social justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we can’t grant degrees may not necessarily mean that we don’t lose what Mills can offer,” Martin said. “I’m hoping a lot of what makes Mills Mills will not be lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mills College in Oakland, the prestigious 169-year-old women’s institution, plans to stop enrolling first-year undergraduate students after this fall. It will likely hand out its final undergraduate and graduate degrees in 2023 following years of financial losses, the school announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.mills.edu/announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter\u003c/a>, Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman cited “the economic burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic, structural changes across higher education, and Mills’ declining enrollment and budget deficits” as reasons for the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s news signals the end of an era in Mills College’s history. It may provoke a variety of reactions and emotions in you, as it has in me,” Hillman said in the letter. “I also expect you will have many questions, some of which I will not yet be able to answer. Mills takes seriously our obligation to keep you apprised as we assess options and build pathways for transition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current students were informed of the decision on Wednesday morning - at nearly the same time it was announced publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/tEk9j9-2sa4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills is grappling with a $3 million deficit — against a $50 million budget — driven largely by years declining enrollment, a problem that has only been exacerbated by the pandemic. Student ranks have dropped by roughly 30% over the past five years, to just 900 during the pandemic, Hillman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mills-college\"]The college's Mission, \"to promote women's leadership, gender and racial justice, and critical and creative thought, has never been more urgent,\" Hillman said in a video message posted on the school's website. \"But it's become clear, through a deep and searching process of reflection and analysis by the college's leadership, that we cannot continue to fulfill Mills' mission in our current form.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Mills had considered becoming a shared campus, and was in talks with other universities — including UC Berkeley — about potential partnerships. But the pandemic tanked those plans when it forced the campus to shut down last year and shift to virtual instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillman said the administration is now working to create a “Mills Institute” on the campus to “continue to foster women’s leadership and student success, advance gender and racial equity, and cultivate innovative pedagogy, research, and critical thinking.” The specific details of what the new institution will look like are still being worked out, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school will help current students either finish their degrees at Mills or transfer to other colleges or universities, Hillman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11865511 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk onto the Mills College campus through the main gates on MacArthur Blvd. \u003ccite>(Steve Babuljak/Mills College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most graduate students can continue to enroll after this fall, with the expectation that their degree programs will be completed by the end of spring 2023, said Tami Kelly, a Mills spokesperson. It's unclear though, what the announcement means for current faculty members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We kind of knew that Mills was having issues,\" said Angel Fabre, a senior and editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecampanil.com/author/angelfabre/\">The Campanil\u003c/a>, the campus newspaper. The school, she noted, has struggled financially for years; in 2017 it declared a fiscal emergency and laid off several tenured professors. \"We just were under the assumption that it was seeking different avenues. ... At most, we thought that we were possibly going to merge with another college.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabre said the school administration has so far provided very few concrete details about how it came to its decision. Why, for instance, isn't it digging into its nearly $190 million endowment to cover some losses, she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've survived several major events. We've been struggling for a while,\" she said, noting that Hillman had until recently expressed confidence the school would survive, despite mounting financial challenges. \"It wasn’t just COVID. There had to be other financial factors that caused Mills to have to close. They're not telling us the specifics of why they don’t have enough money. Students deserve to know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabre, who like most students, hasn't set foot on campus since last March, when the pandemic began, said the news is hitting hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been pretty emotional,\" she said. \"For a lot of students, it's really sinking in that they're never going to return to what they left from.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills is a unique institution, Fabre said, providing a much-needed safe environment for women and nonbinary students. \"You're able to come to a space where you're going to be respected, but also learn to advocate for yourself,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students here, she added, have a strong history of activism, and are unlikely to take the news sitting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fighting spirit was evident in the swift, ardent response from a number of prominent alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am heartbroken and outraged by today’s announcement that Mills College will cease to be as we know it,” U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, a Mills graduate, said in a statement. “Personally I owe a debt of gratitude to Mills College. Five decades ago, I was able to attend college and earn a degree as a young single mother on public assistance who often had to bring her sons to class — something that would have been impossible at many other colleges or universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills is where Lee met her mentor, pioneering Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, she said, and where “my passion for public service and politics began.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KateABC7/status/1372418145944629250\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of just 34 all-women colleges in the U.S., Mills has served students at its 135-acre campus on MacArthur Boulevard since 1871, where it relocated after starting as a small seminary in Benicia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For generations, Mills has been a bastion of diversity in higher education, providing an excellent academic education to women who are too often shut out by other institution of higher education,” Lee said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The college's Mission, \"to promote women's leadership, gender and racial justice, and critical and creative thought, has never been more urgent,\" Hillman said in a video message posted on the school's website. \"But it's become clear, through a deep and searching process of reflection and analysis by the college's leadership, that we cannot continue to fulfill Mills' mission in our current form.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, Mills had considered becoming a shared campus, and was in talks with other universities — including UC Berkeley — about potential partnerships. But the pandemic tanked those plans when it forced the campus to shut down last year and shift to virtual instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillman said the administration is now working to create a “Mills Institute” on the campus to “continue to foster women’s leadership and student success, advance gender and racial equity, and cultivate innovative pedagogy, research, and critical thinking.” The specific details of what the new institution will look like are still being worked out, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school will help current students either finish their degrees at Mills or transfer to other colleges or universities, Hillman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11865511 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk onto the Mills College campus through the main gates on MacArthur Blvd. \u003ccite>(Steve Babuljak/Mills College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most graduate students can continue to enroll after this fall, with the expectation that their degree programs will be completed by the end of spring 2023, said Tami Kelly, a Mills spokesperson. It's unclear though, what the announcement means for current faculty members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We kind of knew that Mills was having issues,\" said Angel Fabre, a senior and editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecampanil.com/author/angelfabre/\">The Campanil\u003c/a>, the campus newspaper. The school, she noted, has struggled financially for years; in 2017 it declared a fiscal emergency and laid off several tenured professors. \"We just were under the assumption that it was seeking different avenues. ... At most, we thought that we were possibly going to merge with another college.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabre said the school administration has so far provided very few concrete details about how it came to its decision. Why, for instance, isn't it digging into its nearly $190 million endowment to cover some losses, she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've survived several major events. We've been struggling for a while,\" she said, noting that Hillman had until recently expressed confidence the school would survive, despite mounting financial challenges. \"It wasn’t just COVID. There had to be other financial factors that caused Mills to have to close. They're not telling us the specifics of why they don’t have enough money. Students deserve to know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fabre, who like most students, hasn't set foot on campus since last March, when the pandemic began, said the news is hitting hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been pretty emotional,\" she said. \"For a lot of students, it's really sinking in that they're never going to return to what they left from.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills is a unique institution, Fabre said, providing a much-needed safe environment for women and nonbinary students. \"You're able to come to a space where you're going to be respected, but also learn to advocate for yourself,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students here, she added, have a strong history of activism, and are unlikely to take the news sitting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fighting spirit was evident in the swift, ardent response from a number of prominent alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am heartbroken and outraged by today’s announcement that Mills College will cease to be as we know it,” U.S. Rep. 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The Olin Library’s special collections and archives includes the papers of artists such as Pauline Oliveros and Patti Smith, and as recently as Tuesday the website listed the First Folio in its Early Printed Books Collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book, which the source close to the library said has already left campus, was a 1977 gift from Mary Louise O’Brien in honor of her father Elias Olan James, a former English professor at Mills and namesake of a Shakespeare collection at the Olin Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When copies of the First Folio change hands, it tends to make headlines. Christie’s sold one in 2001 for $6.1 million, establishing a then-world record for a 17th-century book, and another copy fetched $5.1 million in 2006 at Sotheby’s. Most recently, in 2016, a newly-discovered copy of the First Folio exceeded Christie’s auctioneers expectations by garnering $2.75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goldwasser expects Mills’ First Folio to also snare millions, while the Mozart manuscript is easily worth six figures. It’s not unusual for Mills and other private institutions to quietly sell assets, he said, but the First Folio is uniquely monumental, and its sale will dissuade prospective donors from continuing to bestow important research objects and archives to Mills’ special collections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe Shakespeare’s not so important anymore at some undergraduate institutions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills’ First Folio is one of 235 extant copies of the book known worldwide, according to the Folger Shakespeare Library. Its original publication in 1623, seven years after the playwright’s death, marked the first-ever printed appearance of 18 of its 36 collected plays, including \u003cem>Macbeth\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Tempest\u003c/em>, changing the course of English literature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without this particular copy, we wouldn’t have authoritative versions of many of Shakespeare’s works,” said Diana Kohnke, a librarian at the California State Library’s Sutro Library in San Francisco, one of few other local institutions possessing a First Folio. “Laws prohibit us from selling—our deed from the Sutro family says the collection can’t even leave San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Hanff, deputy director of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, another academic research library with a First Folio, said that the sale signals a smaller institution redefining or narrowing its primary purpose—and weighing a cash infusion against the book’s research value to students. “They’re going, ‘This doesn’t advance our primary mission,’ and making a challenging decision,” Hanff said. “Personally I still hate it when this happens, because I really value the accessibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales reflect Mills’ efforts to manage a budget deficit due in part to declining enrollment. 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She made the swim in just under 15 hours in 1989. Berkay bested that time by more than two hours, completing the swim in 12 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm in awe of that fact,\" Berkay said of her record-breaking swim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkay had friends waiting for her and cheering her on as she sprinted to the end of her swim.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just seemed like a very surreal moment,\" she said. \"I couldn't believe the swim was finished, and I had actually done it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Berkay is not your average Mills College swimmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t usually get athletes of her caliber,\" said Neil Virtue, head coach of \u003ca href=\"http://www.millscyclones.com/sports/wswimdive/index\" target=\"_blank\">the swim team\u003c/a> at the small liberal arts college in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A competitive teenage swimmer in the San Diego area, Berkay earned a scholarship in 2009 to Rider University in New Jersey, which has a Division I swim program. But she wound up coming back to California after just two years. She was out of school -- and out of the pool -- for four years, including an eight-month stretch when she was homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a combination of relationship and financial and job issues and lack of safety net and familial support that led to that,\" Berkay said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/aug/08/formerly-homeless-san-diegan-swims-combat-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with KPBS\u003c/a>. \"It was definitely a growing experience I wouldn't have been able to make it through without the support I received. I'm motivated by that experience to give back to those communities and to show that a person who has been in that position can make a difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience has motivated Berkay to attempt something no American has done before. This Wednesday, she will try to swim the Catalina Channel -- 21 miles from Santa Catalina Island to Rancho Palos Verdes -- using only the butterfly stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277386407\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she has wanted to do a marathon swim -- an open-water swim of at least 10 kilometers -- since she was 11, but when the opportunity presented itself this summer, she knew it had to be more than just a swim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm going to do this swim, but I really don't want to do it for myself because there's something I can do with this,\" Berkay said in an interview last week. \"This solely shouldn't be about me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had seen other marathon swimmers raise money for diabetes or cancer, but rarely for organizations that focus on homelessness. Knowing firsthand how important these organizations can be, she decided to use her swim to raise money for three California nonprofits focused on homelessness: \u003ca href=\"http://www.godsextendedhand.com/\" target=\"_blank\">God's Extended Hand Mission\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccdsd.org/programs/homeless-womens-services/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel's Women's Center\u003c/a> in San Diego and \u003ca href=\"https://www.projecthomelessconnect.org/2015/06/jazzies-place-americas-first-lgbt-shelter/\" target=\"_blank\">Jazzie's Place\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Giving back to the community that helped me at one point is really important to me personally,\" Berkay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/catalinachannel\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe page\u003c/a>, which has raised more than $1,300 so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkay fell back on her swimming experiences and her \"almost military-style\" training out East to help her get through her hard times after returning to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'If I can do that, I can deal with this economic crisis I'm in right now,'\" she said she told herself. \"That really helped me adjusting to a situation that would be hard to get through if I didn't have that experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkay was rarely in the water during those four years and thought she would never swim again. But it didn't take long for her to kick off any rust she might have had when she joined the Mills College team in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first few times I saw her in the water, it was like a machine,\" Virtue said. \"She was go, go, go. It was like she was her full self in the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After just two months of training at Mills, Berkay became the school's first swimmer to qualify for the NCAA Division III national championships and was named to the Scholar All-America Team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has spent the last two months training to swim the Catalina Channel, sometimes spending eight or 10 hours straight in the water. 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