Mills College To Stop Operating As A College, 2022 Last Year For Undergraduate Enrollment

Piedmont CA

18 March, 2021

3:32 PM

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By CBS San Francisco Staff: OAKLAND (CBS SF) — The president of Mills College announced Wednesday that the school is transitioning to an institute and will stop operating degree-granting college. According to school president Elizabeth L. Hillman, the 169-year-old college's board of trustees made the decision to move away from providing degrees because of "economic burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic, structural changes across higher education, and Mills' declining enrollment and budget deficits." "We will focus our resources on building degree pathways for our continuing students, and supporting the new first-year undergraduate, transfer, and graduate students who will join us this fall," Hillman said in a statement. Read more at CBS San Francisco