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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li and War by Candlelight by Daniel Alarcon Recognized Among Year’s Top Books
Oakland, CA - The San Francisco Chronicle has honored the work of two Mills faculty members in their “Best Books of 2005” selections. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House) by Yiyun Li, assistant professor of English, and War by Candlelight (HarperCollins) by Daniel Alarcon, distinguished visiting writer, were noted on the prestigious list.
December 23, 2005 Read the full story
“Swim-a-Mile for Women with Cancer” Fundraiser Honored
Oakland, CA - Mills College has received an “Award of Merit” by the National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators (NADIIIAA) for its “Swim-a-Mile for Women with Cancer” 2005 event. Under the leadership of swim coach Neil Virtue, this year’s fundraiser for the Women’s Cancer Resource Center (Oakland, CA) raised more than $250,000 with 520 swimmers participating on October 1 and 2, 2005.
December 23, 2005 Read the full story
Mills One of Only Five California Colleges Rated in Intel’s 2005 Survey
Oakland, CA - Mills College has been ranked among the top 50 U.S. colleges and universities for outstanding campus access to a wireless network. One of only five California colleges rated by Intel, Mills was recognized based on the percentage its campus is covered by wireless technology, the number of undergraduates, and the computer-to-student ratio. The study examined schools with more than 1,000 students. This year, 74 percent of the top 50 schools have 100 percent wireless coverage on campus compared with only 14 percent in last year’s survey.
December 16, 2005 Read the full story
College Art Association Selects Roth for Excellence in Art and Leadership
Oakland, CA - Moira Roth, Trefethen Professor of Art History at Mills College, has been named a 2006 recipient of the Annual Recognition Award by the Committee on Women in the Arts of the College Art Association (CAA). She was chosen for excellence in art and leadership in the world of art.
December 12, 2005 Read the full story
STATEWIDE EDUCATION SUMMIT AT MILLS COLLEGE FEATURED IN OAKLAND TRIBUNE
California's Top Educational Leaders Meet, Propose Key Recommendations from Master Plan
Oakland, CA - California's top leaders in education participated in a major summit at Mills College on Tuesday, December 6, 2005, to reinvigorate the key recommendations from the California Education Master Plan. Approximately 30 officials and educators worked together throughout the day on reform measures for the State's schools, from
pre-kindergarten through higher education. Among those attending the summit were Jack O'Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Alan Bersin, governor-appointed State Secretary of Education. Instrumental in organizing the event were Delaine Eastin, Mills Distinguished Visiting Professor of Educational Leadership and former State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dede Alpert, former
State Senator (D-San Diego).
December 08, 2005 featured in the Oakland Tribune.
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Oakland, CA - Mills College President Janet L. Holmgren was recently honored for her visionary leadership as the outgoing chair of the Board of Trustees for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Specifically commended for her astute stewardship of the Foundation and her expertise in higher education, teacher education, and policy, she was honored in November at a reception and dinner with Board members and invited guests at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C.
December 5, 2005 Read the full story
Secretary of Education, Superintendent of Public Instruction to Attend
Oakland, CA - Statewide education and business leaders will attend a California Education Planning Summit at Mills College on Tuesday, December 6, 2005, from 9:30 am to 3 pm in the Mills Bender Room, Carnegie Hall. Co-hosted by Delaine Eastin, Mills distinguished visiting professor of educational leadership, and Dede Alpert, former State Senator, the Summit is designed to invigorate support for the California Master Plan for Education. Completed in 2002 by leading educational experts with bipartisan support, the Master Plan provides recommendations to overhaul pre-kindergarten through higher education throughout the State.
December 2, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - “Change as a Creative Opportunity” is the theme of the 2nd Annual Creative Women Symposium featuring presentations by two Mills professors on Saturday, December 10, 2005 at the Arts Benicia Gallery. The gathering will take place from 3 pm to 5 pm at 991 Tyler Street, Suite 114, Benecia. Suggested donations of $5.00 will be accepted at the door.
November 18, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Madeleine Kahn, former associate professor at Mills College, has written a new book, “Why are We Reading Ovid’s Handbook on Rape?”: Teaching and Learning at a Women’s College.
November 16, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Anna Richert, professor of education at Mills College, is one of three California experts exploring innovative web technologies to prepare future educators for successful teaching in urban schools. Funded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the two-year “Quest” project was recently featured in Education Week (October 12, 2005).
November 8, 2005 Read the full story
Her Presence Remains a Gift in Our Hearts and Homes
- The following essay is reprinted with the permission of Daphne Muse--writer, social commentator, and Director of the Women's Leadership Institute at Mills College.
Everyday, history is made by people whose names remain unknown as well as those who become eternal icons. In May of 1980, a woman who forever changed our country spent a week in our home. The East Bay Area Friends of Highlander Research and Education Center joined with founder Myles Horton to honor two of the Civil Rights Movements most courageous pioneers: Rosa Parks and Septima Clark. Clark broke ground as a pioneering force in citizenship training and voter education. The two women met at Highlander in 1955, a place where my own mother-in-law Margaret Landes was trained during the 1930s.
November 04, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College announces the appointment of writer, social commentator, and activist Daphne Muse as the new director of the Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI). A member of the Mills faculty in 1975-83 and 1991-93, she has served as a WLI fellow, and most recently participated on their advisory board (2004-05).
Novemeber 3, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College will present a lecture by Samina Ali entitled “From Possession to Self-Possession: An American Muslim Woman’s Journey to Freedom” on Tuesday, October 18, 2005. Sponsored by the Student Activities Office and the English Center for International Women, the event is free and open to the public. It will be held in the campus Student Union from 12 pm – 1 pm.
October 05, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Sara Truebridge, a student in the Mills College doctoral program in educational leadership (EdD) is one of two international recipients of the 2005 Howard M. Soule Fellowship for Doctoral Studies. A member of the California State University/Hayward Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, she received $1,500 toward her studies.
September 30, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Juliana Spahr, associate professor of English at Mills College, has won a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to study “The Crisis of Language in 20th Century Literature.”
September 28, 2005 Read the full story
Yiyun Li Wins for Debut Short Stories: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Oakland, CA - Yiyun Li, assistant professor of English at Mills College, has received the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the largest short story prize in the world. The award of 50,000 euros (approximately $60,385) was given to Li for her debut collection of short stories, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House, September 2005). Set in China, the collection explores how fate is created through the intersection of personality with politics, history, mythology, and culture.
September 28, 2005 Read the full story
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Oakland, CA - Mills College will present a lecture by award-winning author Orville Schell on “Reinventing Culture in Post-Revolutionary China,” Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, this event was made possible by the Nancy T. Lin Li and Amy T. Lin Shen Fund for Cultural Understanding.
September 27, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Micheline Aharonian Marcom, visiting assistant professor, part-time, at Mills College has won the 2005 PEN/USA Award in fiction for her second novel The Daydreaming Boy. She is currently teaching beginning fiction for Mills students in creative writing and will teach the craft of fiction to graduate students in spring 2006. She graduated from the Mills MFA program in 1999.
September 23, 2005 Read the full story
Renowned Photographer/Mills College Art Professor Presents Re-Classifying History
Oakland, CA - The art of Catherine Wagner, internationally acclaimed artist and art professor at Mills College, will be featured as the opening installation for the new Connections Gallery at the inauguration of the new de Young Museum (San Francisco). Re-Classifying History, Wagner’s large-scale photographic series, will be on exhibit from October 15, 2005 through February 12, 2006.
September 21, 2005 Read the full story
Women’s Historic Achievements Recognized at Mills October 6 – 8, 2005
Oakland, CA - Mills College and the National Women’s History Project will co-host Women of the West: A Multicultural, Multigenerational Women’s History Networking Conference October 6 – 8, 2005. Members of the public interested in women’s historic achievements are welcome to attend the conference including authors, educators, historians, community activists, and students, among others.
September 16, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Essays by two master of fine arts students at Mills College are featured in the new anthology, WAKING UP AMERICAN, COMING OF AGE BICULTURALLY (Seal Press 2005). The writing of Patricia Justine Tumang (Class of 2006) and Jenesha (Jinky) De Rivera (Class of 2007) are part of the collection edited by Angela Jane Fountas. WAKING UP AMERICAN features work by women either American-born or of at least one foreign-born parent or who immigrated to the United States during childhood. The writers explore their experiences and identities in balancing between two cultures.
September 16, 2005 Read the full story
First American Woman in Space to Launch New Academic Year on Friday, September 30, 2005
Oakland, CA - Mills College will mark the beginning of academic year 2005-06 at Convocation on Friday, September 30, 2005 with featured speaker Sally Ride, a former NASA astronaut and the first American woman in space. The event will be held in the College’s Concert Hall at 10:15 a.m. Every fall, Convocation formally celebrates the new academic year, honors student and faculty achievements with special awards, and recognizes the year’s graduating class.
September 9, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - According to officials at Mills College (Oakland, CA), the largest entering class in the College’s 153-year history will enroll this month. Approximately 606 new undergraduate and graduate students are expected to attend the private liberal arts institution for a total enrollment of 1,340.
September 6, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College, the private liberal arts college for undergraduate women and graduate women and men, is offering fall semester admission with non-matriculated status to undergraduate women from the Bay Area who are enrolled in Gulf Coast colleges affected by Hurricane Katrina. Pending course availability, they will be able to continue their college education without significant interruption in their studies. The College is also offering non-matriculated admission status to undergraduate women who are residents of Gulf Coast communities.
August 31, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Not only is she president of one of America’s oldest and most esteemed women’s colleges, Dr. Janet L. Holmgren also leads women nationwide as the chair of the National Council for Research on Women, based in New York City.
August, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review’s The Best 361 Colleges, 2006 edition. Only about 15% of the four-year colleges in America and two Canadian colleges are included in the book.
August 24, 2005 Read the full story
College Ranked Among Top 20 Liberal Arts Colleges for Diversity
Oakland, CA - Mills College is ranked among the country’s top 75 liberal arts colleges in America’s Best Colleges (2006) scheduled for publication on August 29, 2005 by U.S. News & World Report. Mills was selected among the nation’s liberal arts colleges emphasizing undergraduate education and awarding at least half of their degrees in liberal arts disciplines.
August 18, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College announces the appointment of six new faculty members in academic year 2005-06. Joining the ranks of Mills’ nationally renowned faculty are:
August 17, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College alumna Alicia Shook has received a Fulbright Grant to pursue master’s degree studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. She graduated from Mills in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and ethnic studies.
August 11, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Sarah K. Lee, an alumna from Mills College’s class of 2001, has received a Fulbright Grant to teach English as a Foreign Language in Taiwan. The award was announced this week by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Lee is one of more than 1,000 students nationwide who will travel abroad for the 2005-06 academic year through the Fulbright Program.
August 01, 2005 Read the full story
The Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems By Spahr Called “Poetics of Superinformation”
Oakland, CA - The Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems, a new book by Juliana Spahr, W.M. Keck Professor of Creative Writing and associate professor of English at Mills College, was well received recently in The New York Times “Book Review.”
July 28, 2005 Read the full story
First American Woman in Space to Launch New Academic Year on Friday, September 30, 2005
Oakland, CA - Mills College will mark the beginning of academic year 2005-06 at Convocation on Friday, September 30, 2005 with featured speaker Sally Ride, a former NASA astronaut and the first American woman in space. The event will be held in the College’s Concert Hall at 10:15 a.m.
July, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - The Mills College Board of Trustees and the AAMC Board of Governors are pleased to announce that, following months of negotiations, Mills College and the Alumnae Association of Mills College have successfully reached a mutually acceptable agreement to strengthen our alumnae network.
July 19, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Megan Miller, a student-athlete at Mills College, has received the national Coca-Cola Community All-American Award in recognition of her outstanding community service. She was selected from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Division.
July 19, 2005 Read the full story
Congresswoman Lee is One of 14 Bay Area Women Considered for "1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005"
Oakland, CA - Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA, 9th District), a Mills College alumna from the class of 1973, has been nominated for the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005.” Known for her sole Congressional vote against the resolution authorizing President Bush to initiate the war in Iraq, she has built a record of major accomplishment since first being elected to Congress in 1998. Congresswoman Lee has worked on behalf of AIDS, housing and homelessness, ending genocide, education, health care, and other critical issues of our time.
June 29, 2005 Read the full story
Rita Stuckey Earns Doctoral Degree, Creates Successful Program to Protect Seniors
Oakland, CA - A registered nurse for 21 years and the former interim director of a local nursing home, Rita Stuckey witnessed serious physical and sexual abuse of seniors by paid staff, and vowed to do something about it. Last month, she graduated from Mills with her doctorate in educational leadership, having completed a dissertation on institutional elder abuse, and she created the Care Advocate Program to curtail the incidence of abuse.
June 21, 2005 Read the full story
New Pre-Nursing Program Accepting Applications for Fall
Oakland, CA - Jessica Embree could have entered nearly any college of her choice, having graduated first in her class of 358 students at San Jose’s Abraham Lincoln High School with a 4.0 grade point average and a 1420 SAT score. This fall, she will be among the first women to attend Mills College’s new Pre-nursing Program, as she pursues her love of science and working with people in Mills’ dynamic, liberal arts environment.
May 27, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College announces the appointment of Joanna Iwata as the new Dean of Student Life, effective May 16, 2005. Bringing to Mills more than 20 years of expertise in student services administration, Iwata was the Director of Student Involvement at East Carolina University (ECU) for four years, and served on the ECU Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women.
May 27, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Vivian M. Stephenson, chair of the Board of Trustees at Mills College and chief operating officer for Williams-Sonoma, Inc., has received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Mills College. Honored at the College’s 117th Commencement on May 14, 2005, she was recognized for her ethical, compassionate business and volunteer leadership, and her extraordinary advocacy on behalf of women’s education.
May 14, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College has been selected to participate in a major national effort to improve cybersecurity and protect the country’s computer infrastructure from cyberattacks. Mills is one of eight collaborating universities and colleges nationwide to comprise the new Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), led by the University of California at Berkeley.
April 26, 2005 Read the full story
Congresswoman Barbara Lee to Introduce Dellums
Oakland, CA - Former California Congressman Ron Dellums will be the commencement speaker at Mills College on Saturday, May 14, 2005. For nearly 30 years, Dellums represented Oakland’s 9th District where Mills is located. At the ceremony, he will receive an honorary degree in recognition of his lifelong work for peace, justice, and equality.
April 29, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College is proud to announce that two recent graduates have been selected to receive prestigious Fulbright awards for 2005-06.
April 15, 2005 Read the full story
Alarcon, Garcia, Cady to Teach Literature, Creative Writing at Women’s College
Oakland, CA - Mills College has hired two prominent writers and a medieval scholar to join the English Department faculty: Daniel Alarcon, Cristina Garcia, and Diane M. Cady.
April 07, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Vivian M. Stephenson, chair of the Board of Trustees at Mills College, has been named one of San Francisco’s “100 Most Influential Business Women.”
April 6, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College has been selected as one of the newest additions to The Princeton Review’s “Best Colleges” series to be published in September 2005 by Random House. The Best 361 Colleges will feature Mills as one of 11 schools receiving The Princeton Review's "Best" designation for the first time.
March 29, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - In celebration of Women’s History Month, Mills College joined members of the Women’s College Coalition in a full-page ad in The New York Times to promote women’s achievement in the sciences. Sparked by the recent controversy regarding Harvard President Lawrence Summers’ negative comments regarding women and science, the ad salutes the many distinguished female students, alumnae, and faculty who have made major contributions to the sciences. The ad also highlights the role of women's colleges in trailblazing a 170-year tradition of success in the sciences, attributing the long list of accomplishments to innovative research opportunities, mentoring, curriculum, facilities, and the expectation for achievement that a woman’s college instills.
March 20, 2005 Read the full story (608k, pdf)
Founder/CEO of Business Wire Continues Support for Mills’ New Graduate Business School
Oakland, CA - Mills College has received an additional pledge of $5 million from Bay Area business leader Lorry I. Lokey - his third multi-million dollar gift to Mills in recent years. With this donation, the founder, chair and CEO of Business Wire continues his exceptional support of the only graduate business school in the West designed to prepare women for leadership and entrepreneurial success.
March 18, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College announced today a new endowed professorship in business education funded by Mills trustee Glenn Voyles and his wife Ellen. Mr. Voyles has served on the Mills Board of Trustees since 1996, and is a founding donor of the College’s highly respected four plus one BA/MBA program.
March 09, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College and representatives of the Alumnae Association of Mills College (AAMC) currently are discussing ways to strengthen outreach to the network of 19,000 Mills alumnae across the country and the world. These discussions include the College’s goal of enhancing the alumnae annual fund to meet expectations set by the spectacular success of our recent capital campaign.
February 28, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College announced today the hiring of award-winning writer Yiyun Li as a tenure-track assistant professor of English. She will teach fiction and creative non-fiction at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Li was recognized this year with the Plimpton Prize for New Writers and a Pushcart Prize. The Los Angeles Times recently named her a “person to watch” in 2005.
February 25, 2005 Read the full story
Honors Received from NADIIIAA/Jostens and Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame
Oakland, CA - The Mills College Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (APER) was recently recognized with two community service awards. Mills was selected from among more than 400 NCAA Division III institutions to receive the 2004 NADIIIAAA/Jostens Community Service Award in the category of ongoing projects. This award is co-sponsored by the National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators (NADIIIAA) and Jostens. In addition, APER Director Themy-Jo Adachi will be honored at the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame for her leadership in sports and athletics.
February 25, 2005 Read the full story
College’s Largest Fundraising Campaign Earns $30 Million More Than Goal
Oakland, CA - Mills College announced today the successful completion of its Sesquicentennial Campaign, raising $130 million for innovative academic programs, student scholarships, endowed professorships, new and renovated facilities, and technology. The largest fundraising initiative in Mills’ 152-year history, the comprehensive campaign “for the future of excellence in education and women in leadership” earned $30 million more than the initial $100 million goal.
February 14, 2005 Read the full story
Sian Jones (MFA 2004) One of 20 Writers Selected Nationwide
Oakland, CA - Mills College announced today that Sian Jones, a 2004 graduate of the Mills MFA program in writing, was selected for inclusion in the forthcoming Best New American Voices 2006. One of only 20 writers selected from among more than 200 nominees, Ms. Jones was chosen for her story, “Pilot,” written in Mills graduate workshops last year.
February 10, 2005 Read the full story
Oakland, CA - Mills College was approved for $320,000 in federal funds as part of Congressional Spending Bill FY2005 - Appropriations Act (H.R. 4818) – approved by the House and Senate on November 20, 2004. The funding was appropriated for the College’s Institute for Civic Leadership (ICL) under the omnibus spending bill, divisions F (Labor/HHS/ED) and III (ED).
February 8, 2005 Read the full story
Joint Program with Samuel Merritt College Leads to Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
Oakland, CA - Mills College is launching an innovative two-year pre-nursing program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) at Samuel Merritt College. Designed to address the nationwide shortage of nurses, the program will give students who complete the Mills program with a 3.0 grade point average, guaranteed admission into a two-year nursing theory and clinical program at Samuel Merritt College.
November 12, 2004 Read the full story
Mills College Graduate Students Provide Answers at December 10 Conference
Oakland, CA - Mills College faculty members Victor LaValle and Micheline Aharonian Marcom have received the 2004 Whiting Writers’ Award and the Lannan Literary Fellowship, respectively.
December 1, 2004 Read the full story
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