Mills College Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Student Strike

Oakland, CA–April 20, 2010 Twenty years ago this May, the students and alumnae of Mills College took a stand for women's education, staging a 16-day protest on the cusp of graduation. Learn more »

Mills College President Janet L. Holmgren Selected to Serve on Mayoral Transition Advisory Committee

December 03, 2010 - Mills College President Janet L. Holmgren has been selected to serve on the Transition Advisory Committee for Oakland Mayor-elect Jean Quan. Holmgren joins 23 other Oakland-based civic, business, and community leaders tasked with helping to shape Quan's new administration. Read the full story

Mills College Mourns the Loss of Former Trustee Dodie Rosekrans

November 08, 2010 - Mills College joins the Bay Area community in mourning the loss of Dodie Rosekrans, who passed away at the age of 91 on Saturday, November 6. Read the full story

Mills College English Professor Cornelia Nixon Wins Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction

October 28, 2010 - Cornelia Nixon, Mills College English professor and award-winning author, has received the 12th Annual Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. Nixon won the award for her third novel, Jarrettsville (Counterpoint, 2009). Read the full story

Mills College Announces Partnership with Oakland Ballet Company

October 20, 2010 - Mills College is pleased to announce a newly formed partnership with Oakland Ballet Company that will serve as a model to other organizations and educational institutions as a way to inspire community collaboration and support the art of dance. Read the full story

Mills College Partners with the International Museum of Women to Explore Women and the Global Economy

September 13, 2010 - Mills College is pleased to announce its partnership with the International Museum of Women (IMOW) to explore and highlight the status of young women in today's global economy. As the only U.S. college in this unprecedented worldwide partnership, Mills will join the Ayala Museum and Miriam College (Philippines), the Women's Museum and Aarhus University (Denmark), and the Sudanese Women's Museum and Ahfad University (Sudan) to examine the obstacles and opportunities young women are experiencing during this historically challenging economic period. Read the full story

Legendary Labor Leader Dolores Huerta to speak at Mills College Convocation

September 7, 2010 - Mills College celebrates the start of the academic year on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 with a Convocation address delivered by legendary labor leader and civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta. The Convocation ceremony begins at 10:15 am in the Littlefield Concert Hall. Huerta will receive an honorary degree. All members of the public are invited. Read the full story

Mills College Mourns the Loss of Former Acting President and Trustee Virginia Smith

August 30, 2010 - The Mills College community mourns the death of Virginia B. Smith, 87, who passed away last Friday, August 27. Read the full story

Sierra Magazine Names Mills one of America's 100 Coolest Green Schools

August 25, 2010 - Mills College has been named one of America's "100 coolest" green schools by Sierra magazine. The magazine’s annual "Coolest Schools" feature recognizes the top 100 "greenest" colleges and universities across the United States. Read the full story

U.S. News & World Report Ranks Mills 4th Among Colleges in the West
Mills Ranked 2nd Among “Great Schools, Great Prices”

August 17, 2010 - Mills College has been named one of the top tier regional universities in the country by U.S. News & World Report, ranking fourth among colleges and universities in the West for the third consecutive year. The publication’s annual Best Colleges guide compares more than 1,400 accredited four-year schools nationwide. Read the full story

Mills Named One of the 373 Best Colleges in the Nation by The Princeton Review
Mills Recognized for Academic Excellence and Sustainability Practices

August 3, 2010 - Mills College has been selected as one of the top colleges in the country according to the 2011 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 373 Colleges. Mills was also recognized as one of the best colleges in the West, becoming one of the top 120 regional colleges The Princeton Review recommends to students pursuing an undergraduate degree. Read the full story

Mills College Featured in The Fiske Guide to Colleges for Fifth Consecutive Year

July 15, 2010 - For the fifth consecutive year, Mills College has been featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2011. Highly regarded as an unbiased source of information, The Fiske Guide to Colleges features only 330 of the country's best and most interesting colleges and universities from more than 2,200 four-year schools nationwide. Read the full story

Mills College General Counsel Therese Leone Elected to Serve on Board of National Association of College and University Attorneys

July 12, 2010 - Therese M. Leone, Mills College vice president and general counsel, has been elected to serve on the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) Board of Trustees and will serve a three-year term. Read the full story

Mills Executive Vice President Ramon Torrecilha Elected to Accrediting Commission

June 10, 2010 - Mills College is proud to announce the appointment of Executive Vice President Ramon Torrecilha to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities. Dr. Torrecilha was elected for a three-year term of service beginning July 1, 2010. Read the full story

Mills College Professor and Alumna Receive Fulbright Awards

May 28, 2010 - Mills College is proud to announce that Associate Professor of Education Diane Ketelle and Head Cross Country and Track and Field Coach Laura Joyce Davis are recipients of 2010–11 Fulbright Awards. Read the full story

Mills Partners with San Francisco Opera for Ring Festival

May 27, 2010 - Mills College is proud to partner with San Francisco Opera in a Bay Area celebration of the Company's Summer 2011 presentation of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), the epic four-opera cycle widely considered one of the greatest works ever conceived for the operatic stage. Read the full story

Mills College Art Installation Features Historic Architecture

May 25, 2010 - The Mills College Art Museum is pleased to announce Here and Now, a series of site-specific installations on three historic Oakland buildings, including Mills Hall, curated by Christian L. Frock. Artists Elaine Buckholtz, Floor Vahn, and Christine Wong Yap, have been commissioned to create new works that investigate the various inherent legacies of these locations. Each one provides a relatively unchanged visual benchmark for the architecture of its period, with respective histories that reflect the early radical politics of the Bay Area. Read the full story

Mills College Receives $100,000 College Success Award

May 20, 2010 - Mills College is proud to announce it is the recipient of a $100,000 College Success Award given by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Walmart Foundation. This award recognizes the College's leadership in educational access, building upon Mills' stature as one of the country's most diverse liberal arts colleges. The award will further strengthen the College's exemplary programs for first-generation college students, many of whom are non-native English or multilingual speakers, and address a nationwide need to increase the retention of these students. Read the full story

Mills College Students Honored With Richmond Historic Preservation Award

May 5, 2010 - Mills College ethnography students have received a 2010 Richmond Historic Preservation Award, presented by the city of Richmond for works that preserve and/or promote the city's heritage. Read the full story

Mills College Announces New Dean for School of Education

April 29, 2010 - Mills College has appointed Katherine Schultz, an authority on the preparation of teachers for success in urban schools, adolescent literacy practices, and urban teaching, learning, and school reform, as the new dean of the School of Education. Read the full story

Mills College Student Newspaper Website Gets High Marks

April 29, 2010 - The Mills College student newspaper, the Campanil, has won several awards given by the California College Media Association and the Associated Collegiate Press. Read the full story

Mills College President Janet L. Holmgren Receives Achievement Awards

April 23, 2010 - Janet L. Holmgren, Mills College President, has been named among the "Bay Area's Most Influential Women in Business" by the San Francisco Business Times in today's April 23, 2010 issue.  Read the full story

Mills College Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Student Strike
"Better Dead Than Coed"—the rallying cry that made history for women's education.

April 20, 2010 - Twenty years ago this May, the students and alumnae of Mills College took a stand for women's education, staging a 16-day protest on the cusp of graduation. Their bold mantra—"better dead than coed"—reverberated through the local, national, and international media and served as a turning point in the debate over the future and importance of women-focused education. Read the full story

Mills College Featured in The Princeton Review's Guide to 286 Green Colleges
Guidebook Profiles the Nation's Most Environmentally Responsible Colleges and Universities

April 20, 2010 - Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Mills College has been featured in the newly released The Princeton Review's Guide to 286 Green Colleges. Read the full story

Mills College Receives LEED Gold Certification for Business School
April 20, 2010 - Mills College is proud to announce that it has turned its most recent green building into gold. The Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business building was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. Opened in 2009, the Lokey Graduate School of Business was the second Mills College facility to meet rigorous standards as a LEED facility. Mills' Betty Irene Moore Natural Sciences Building received a platinum rating in 2007, becoming the first building in Oakland to earn this distinction. Read the full story

Mills College Athletics Department Receives NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Award

April 9, 2010 - The Mills College Athletics Department has received a Division III Student-Athlete Leadership Conference Recognition Award from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Read the full story

Mills College Announces New Dean for Business School

April 6, 2010 - Mills College has appointed Deborah Merrill-Sands, an authority on women's leadership, as the new dean of the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business, home of the first MBA program in the West designed to advance women in business.  Read the full story

Mills College and the City of Oakland Seek Transportation Solution

March 23, 2010 - What started out as a Mills College senior thesis may soon become a transportation solution for the labyrinth of sidewalks, paths, and crosswalks that weave around Mills College and its surrounding neighbors. Read the full story

Mills President Janet L. Holmgren Announces Transition Plan for New College President

February 22, 2010 - Janet L. Holmgren, President of Mills College, announced today that she will not seek renewal of her appointment as President beyond June 30, 2011. That date will culminate 20 years of transformative leadership under Holmgren, which has propelled Mills into one of the most respected and successful liberal arts colleges in the United States. Inaugurated in 1991 as the 11th President of Mills College, Holmgren's tenure is exceeded by only one President in the College's 158-year history. Read the full story

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Deliver Commencement Address at Mills College on Saturday, May 15, 2010

February 5, 2010 - Mills College is proud to announce that Nancy Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, will be the Commencement speaker at Mills College's 122nd Commencement. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 9:45 am on Toyon Meadow.  Read the full story

Renowned Art Historians T.J. Clark and Anne M. Wagner Featured in "Not Modern Art: An Exchange" at Mills College

February 2, 2010 - T.J. Clark and Anne M. Wagner, internationally renowned art historians and longtime professors at the University of California at Berkeley, will be the featured guest speakers in "Modern Art: An Exchange" at Mills College on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm. Presented in Lisser Theater by the Jane Green Endowment for Studies in Art History and Criticism, the event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the Mills College Art Museum following the discussion. Read the full story

Yvonne Rainer, Post-Modern Dance Icon, to Offer Rare Teach-in at Mills College

January 20, 2010 - Yvonne Rainer, the mother of post-modern dance and an iconic figure in the 1960s dance revolution, will lead a rare teach-in at Mills College on Saturday, January 30, 2010. She will teach participants part of her legendary dance, Trio A, a manifesto in movement questioning the aesthetics of traditional dance. The free public event will be held in Haas Pavilion at 11:00 am. Following the teach-in, Rainer will screen several of her films from 1:00 to 3:00 pm in the Littlefield Concert Hall and explore the question, "Where’s the Passion?" in a discussion of expressiveness in dance. Read the full story

Communications Expert to Speak at Lokey Graduate School of Business at Mills College
Book Tells Women How to Talk So Men Will Listen

January 15, 2010 - It's no secret, from the mailroom to the boardroom, men and women just don't know how to communicate with each other in the workplace. Nevertheless, when careers and paychecks are on the line, clear communication between the opposite sexes is crucially important. Author and communications expert, Audrey Nelson, PhD will offer strategies to crack the gender communication code February 9, at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business Gathering Hall. Read the full story

Mills College Athletics Director Adachi Receives Trailblazer Award

January 5, 2010 - Themy Adachi, director of athletics at Mills College, has received the Northern California Diversity Committee Trailblazer Award from the United States Tennis Association (USTA). She received the honor for "lifelong and groundbreaking service in bringing tennis to, and growing the sport in traditional and non-traditional communities." Read the full story