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== [[File:Sjm-l-mills-0915.jpg|frame|Sjm-l-mills-0915.jpg]]Overview of Mills College ==

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mills College is a liberal arts and sciences college located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mills was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California. The school was relocated to Oakland, California, in 1871, and became the first women's college west of the Rockies. Currently, Mills is an undergraduate women's college with graduate programs for women and men. The college offers more than 60 undergraduate majors and minors and over 25 graduate degrees, certificates, and credentials. The college is also home to the Mills College School of Education and the Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business & Public Policy. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2015, 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. The Princeton Review ranks Mills as one of the Best 380 Colleges and one of the top "green" colleges in the U.S. Washington Monthly ranks Mills as one of the top 10 master's universities in the U.S.

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technology at Mills

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple Pilot Program- <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beginning in the 2017-2018 academic year, Mills College implemented a test run for the Apple pilot program that granted iPads to students. Students in certain pilot classes, including Ethnic Studies’ Comparative Ethnic Literature; SAW (Summer Academic Workshop); and Hellman. The Summer Academic Workshop (SAW) is a program that started in the summer before the students first year of college that follows them through SAW seminar into the incoming school year. Similarly,  Hellman is a STEM focused summer program that helps first year students prepare for college level science.~~ ~~ <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University-industry collaboration

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mils College is still developing their partnership with commercial entities as they want to align their values with their partnerships they seek.

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