{"id":247007,"date":"2021-03-18T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247007"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:30:26","slug":"womens-college-in-california-closing-down-becoming-institute-amid-economic-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/womens-college-in-california-closing-down-becoming-institute-amid-economic-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s College In California Closing Down, Becoming Institute Amid Economic Downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwomens-college-in-california-closing-down-becoming-institute-amid-economic-downturn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247007&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1805.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After 169 years, Mills College \u2014 one of California\u2019s women\u2019s colleges \u2014 announced plans to shut down its degree program and become an institute for women\u2019s leadership on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mills College president, Elizabeth L. Hillman, released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mills.edu\/announcement\/index.php\">statement<\/a> announcing the decision to close down on the college\u2019s website, confirming that the college would be transitioning towards a \u201cMills Institute that can sustain Mills\u2019 mission.\u201d Beginning after fall 2021, the college will no longer admit new freshman students and promises to help create strategies for the students that are continuing at the college and those who start in the fall. Mills is likely to give its last degrees out in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also confirms that the Provost\u2019s Office, along with help from \u201cMills\u2019 accrediting agency, the WASC Senior College and University Commission,\u201d will assist students with next steps, such as switching to a different university or college, or completing their degree at Mills. The statement reads, \u201cOur Admissions Office will support students who choose to pursue transfer opportunities outside Mills through agreements with peer institutions. Mills is committed to working with these institutions to provide our students with streamlined admission processes, financial aid support, and pathways to degree completion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The programming for the new institute that will take the place of Mills College has not yet been decided, but the intent behind such a place is to continue the mission of the college. \u201cMills intends to continue to foster women\u2019s leadership and student success, advance gender, and racial equity, and cultivate innovative pedagogy, research, and critical thinking by creating a Mills Institute housed here on campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mills College is located in Oakland, California and the college\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mills.edu\/uniquely-mills\/facts-about-mills.php\">website<\/a> touts its long history, noting that it is the \u201cOldest undergraduate college for women in the West.\u201d It is described as \u201can independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students with graduate programs for all genders.\u201d The average class size is 11 students with a student-to-faculty ratio of 8-to-1. It includes undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Data provided by 76% of the incoming 2020 class showed that 58% of students identify as LGBTQ.<\/p>\n<p>There were 179 total faculty members for the years 2020-2021. The website details what percentage of full-time and part-time faculty are female or faculty of color and terminal degree recipients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Mills-College-is-closing-to-become-an-institute-16033462.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">SF Gate<\/a> details the history of the college, noting that even though it made it through two world wars, the pandemic was too much of a challenge to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>The college has also been known as one of \u201cmany firsts over the years,\u201d per SF Gate. The timeline of the college on its website describes its journey since it was founded. In 1941, it was one of the first liberal arts colleges in the country to offer a degree in modern dance.&nbsp;It was the first women\u2019s college to provide a computer science major in 1974 and the first women\u2019s college to create an admissions policy to accept transgender students in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s announcement explains the reason for the closure, citing issues such as \u201ceconomic burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d However, included in the problems facing the college are \u201cstructural changes across higher education, and Mills\u2019 declining enrollment and budget deficits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 169 years, Mills College \u2014 one of California\u2019s women\u2019s colleges \u2014 announced plans to shut down its degree program and become an institute for women\u2019s leadership on Wednesday.Mills College &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310743,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1805.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Women\u2019s College In California Closing Down, Becoming Institute Amid Economic Downturn","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1805.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Women\u2019s College In California Closing Down, Becoming Institute Amid Economic Downturn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}