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Mills College on Tuesday released additional details about its planned acquisition by Northeastern University, which the two institutions first announced last month.
Mills and Northeastern faculty members are working together to develop a program for 200 to 300 first-year Northeastern students that would take place on the Mills campus during the upcoming academic year. The program would allow men as well as women, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming students, and would be taught by Mills faculty members.
Mills employees will soon receive a 3 percent pay bump and 3 percent match to Mills’s 403(b) retirement plans, retroactive to July 1, 2021.
Over the next few months, the college will develop transition teams; begin planning discussions between Mills and Northeastern faculty members; review operational strengths, weaknesses and opportunities between Mills and Northeastern; and develop a formal agreement for consideration by the two institutions’ governing boards.
Meanwhile, several alumnae members of the college’s Board of Trustees have filed suit against the college in an effort to slow the acquisition deal, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“Mills as an institution is being harmed in that its governing body (at a minimum, the trustee Plaintiffs here) is, simply put, not being allowed to properly do its job,” the lawsuit said. “This action comes at a pivotal time -- indeed, the pivotal time -- for the future of Mills and its very existence.”
Elizabeth Hillman, president of Mills, responded to the lawsuit Tuesday, calling it a “factually incorrect and legally mistaken effort to undermine confidence in the leadership of the college.”
