Mills College

Mills College
motto	Una destinatio, viae diversae
founding	1852
Sponsorship	Private
place	Oakland , California USA
president	Janet L. Holmgren
Students	1,454
Professors	191
Foundation assets	$ 156.6 million
Website	www.mills.edu

Mills Hall, the main building of Mills College

The Mills College is a cultural studies College in Oakland (California) . Originally founded in 1852 as the first women's college on the American west coast, it plays an important role in American musical life, particularly due to its co-educational graduate program in contemporary music . Furthermore, the fields of English and educational science are very respected.

history

The college was founded in Benicia , California in 1852 as Young Ladies Seminary . Susan Tolman Mills and her husband Cyrus Mills bought the seminary in 1865 and renamed it Mills Seminary . In 1871 the company moved to Oakland and in 1875 it was renamed to its current name. In 1885 the school became Mills College, and in 1890 Susan Tolman Mills was elected President of Mills College. In 1909 she was succeeded by Luella Clay Carson , who served as president until 1914. In 1921 the first master’s degree was awarded. In 1990 the university administration tried to open up undergraduate studies to male students as well. After protests by students and teaching staff, this decision was reversed.

Photograph of Mills College (Mills Seminary) by Eadweard Muybridge circa 1873

In 2014, Mills became the first same-sex college in the US to pass an admissions policy that specifically welcomed transgender students. The policy states that students who were not classified as female at birth but who identify themselves as women can apply for admission. Students who were assigned the female gender at birth but identify as transgender or gender-specific fluid are also welcome to apply for admission. The policy also clarifies that students who were classified as female at birth and who became legally male prior to application are not eligible for admission to Mills. The policy ends with a statement that "upon admission, any student who meets college graduation requirements will be awarded a degree" stating that a student who changes gender to male upon admission to Mills will graduate at college.

Personalities

Composers such as Charles Jones , Darius Milhaud (until 1971) and Luciano Berio (1962–1964) were members of the music faculty. 1966–1967 Pauline Oliveros ran the newly founded Tape Music Center and composed her early electronic works Alien Bog and Beautiful Soop . In the early 1970s Terry Riley taught at Mills; Anthony Braxton and Katrina Krimsky taught there for several decades; Egon Petri and others worked as musicians "in residence". Morton Subotnick studied composition with Leon Kirchner and Darius Milhaud; Well-known Mills alumni are also Laurie Anderson and Trisha Brown , Dave Brubeck , Steve Reich and the Grateful Dead musicians Phil Lesh and Tom Constanten .

Beate Sirota completed her studies in modern languages ​​with a bachelor's degree in 1943.

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Calif. Women's College Makes Trans-Inclusive History
• Transgender Admission Policy

References and comments

1. ↑ Mills College: Facts About Mills College (English). Accessed August 7, 2010
2. ↑ National Association of College and University Business Office: 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, PDF, 186 kB). Accessed August 6, 2010 
3. ↑ The New York Times, College to Reconsider Decision to Admit Men , May 12, 1990. Accessed August 7, 2010
4. ↑ The two later worked together on a number of dance pieces: Anderson composed, and Brown created the choreographies.

Coordinates: 37 ° 46 '50 "  N , 122 ° 10' 59"  W.