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Mills College To Stop Operating As A College, 2022 Last Year For Undergraduate Enrollment
The decision was announced Wednesday due to "economic burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic" and "structural changes across higher education."
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.”
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“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.
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