IT'S OFFICIAL! Today, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in favor of a resolution calling for an investigation of the Mills acquisition. Please join us in thanking @ShengForOakland and Vice Mayor @Kaplan4Oakland for this major step toward justice and truth.
Thank you for my colleagues for voting to approve a resolution calling for an investigation into the closure of Mills College. Students & staff deserve transparency around this sudden sale & closure of one of the two remaining women's colleges in CA.1/
https://t.co/JZz25flXwC.
@CaseyBrienza Thanks for your support, Casey!💕🙏 No financial evidence was provided while the Mills President gave $1+ BILLION in assets away in a "self" deal. We need to save all 33 remaining HWCs. We hope our sibs will stand with us in calling for an investigation. https://t.co/nH7IxAPUpm
This is our chipmunk cousin, Doris, who hails from @mtholyoke! We love our @mywomenscollege extended family! We're stretching to get ready for the investigation of the Mills acquisition. We still have work to do and we're just getting started.
In 2021, 70% of Mills College faculty voted "no confidence" in its president, board of trustees, and administration. They called for a total restructuring. 16 months later, Mills' $multi BILLION$ in assets and was "sold" to Northeastern for a $35 application fee to the @massago.
Within weeks of the announcement that Mills was closing, Gov Gavin Newsom appointed Rob Bonta as the new Attorney General of California. Bonta had received a paycheck from Mills within months of being appointed to oversee its acquisition.
Friends since the 1990s, Hillman had hired Bonta to be a paid faculty member at Mills. Decades earlier, Hillman had introduced Bonta to his wife, Mia. Mia would be elected to fill her husband's vacant seat on the CA state legislature 6 months after he was appointed AG.
Showdown between reform and tough-on-crime policies in California attorney general's race. Who is the toughest on white-collar crime, like self-dealing, though? https://t.co/z9ps8nfazo
Bonta, who publicly claimed that he it was likely he'd recuse from the deal, did not recuse. Instead, he signed a letter stating that he had "no objections" to Northeastern acquiring Mills (for $0). Bonta's 1-page letter contained Northeastern's carefully crafted PR points.
Mills College squirrels are the most special. There are about 26,000 Mills squirrels in our network.
FUN SQUIRREL FACT: According to Euclid Library, a group of squirrels is called a "scurry" or a "dray."