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| − | '''Mills College'''<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is a </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_colleges_in_the_United_States liberal arts]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and sciences college located in the </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area San Francisco Bay Area]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Mills was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benicia Benicia]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California California]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. The school was relocated to Oakland, California, in 1871, and became the </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_colleges_in_the_United_States#First_and_oldest first women's college]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> west of the </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains Rockies]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Currently, Mills is an </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate_education undergraduate]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_colleges_in_the_United_States women's college]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> with </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_school graduate programs]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> for women and men. The college offers more than 60 undergraduate majors and minors and over 25 graduate degrees, certificates, and credentials.</span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-4 [4]]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-5 [5]]</sup><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> The college is also home to the Mills College School of Education and the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business & Public Policy.</span>
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| − | In 2015, ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._News_%26_World_Report U.S. News & World Report]'' ranked Mills sixth overall among colleges and universities in the Western U.S. (regional universities) and one of the top colleges and universities in the Western U.S. in "Great Schools, Great Prices," which evaluated the quality of institutions' academics against the cost of attendance.<sup id="cite_ref-US_News_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-US_News-6 [6]]</sup> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princeton_Review The Princeton Review] ranks Mills as one of the ''Best 380 Colleges''and one of the top [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentally_friendly "green"] colleges in the U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Best_380_Colleges_-_2016_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-The_Best_380_Colleges_-_2016-7 [7]]</sup> ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monthly Washington Monthly]'' ranks Mills as one of the top 10 master's universities in the U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-washingtonmonthly.com_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-washingtonmonthly.com-8 [8]]</sup>
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| − | <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Mills College was initially founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in the city of </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benicia,_California Benicia]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> in 1852 under the leadership of Mary Atkins, a graduate of </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberlin_College Oberlin College]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. In 1865, </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Tolman_Mills Susan Tolman Mills]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, a graduate of </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Holyoke_College Mount Holyoke College]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary), and her husband, Cyrus Mills, bought the Young Ladies Seminary renaming it Mills Seminary. In 1871, the school was moved to </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,_California Oakland, California]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, and the school was </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_corporation incorporated]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> in 1877. The school became Mills College in 1885. In 1890, after serving for decades as principal (under two presidents as well), Susan Mills became the president of the college and held the position for 19 years.</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-9 [9]]</sup><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Beginning in 1906 the seminary classes were progressively eliminated. In 1921, Mills granted its first </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree master's degrees]<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span>
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| − | On May 3, 1990, the Trustees announced that they had voted to admit male undergraduate students to Mills.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-10 [10]]</sup> This decision led to a two-week student and staff [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action strike], accompanied by numerous displays of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence non-violent] protests by the students.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-11 [11]]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-12 [12]]</sup> At one point, nearly 300 students blockaded the administrative offices and boycotted classes.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-13 [13]]</sup> On May 18, the Trustees met again to reconsider the decision, leading finally to a reversal of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-14 [14]]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-15 [15]]</sup>
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| − | In 2014, Mills became the first single-sex college in the U.S. to adopt a policy explicitly welcoming transgender students.<sup id="cite_ref-advocate.com_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-advocate.com-16 [16]]</sup> The policy states that applicants not assigned to the female sex at birth but who self-identify as women are welcome, as are applicants who identify as neither male nor female if they were assigned to the female sex at birth.<sup id="cite_ref-advocate.com_16-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-advocate.com-16 [16]]</sup> It also states that students assigned to the female sex at birth who have legally become male prior to applying are not eligible unless they apply to the graduate program, which is coeducational, although female students who become male after enrolling may stay and graduate.<sup id="cite_ref-advocate.com_16-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_College#cite_note-advocate.com-16 [16]]</sup>
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