Yesterday, a week after six staff members were laid off, President Alecia DeCoudreaux explained in a Dec. 7 message to alumnae that the layoffs and the elimination of nine vacant staff positions will save Mills College more than $1 million.
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A $20 million community-driven project to improve MacArthur Boulevard is on hold until the City of Oakland can secure funding.
Six staff members were laid off earlier today, Nov. 30. According to student leaders, those let go are: Kate Dey (Director of Campus Career Services), Kala Hale (Events Coordinator from the Office of Institutional Advancement), Jess Miller (Director of Services for Students with Disabilities), Gina Rosabal (Director of Social Justice Initiatives) and two other names not yet known.
Student leaders’ idea for carpool parking spaces was intended to support the needs of commuters, but it also falls in line with their effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Student leaders are brainstorming ways to create and manage carpool parking spaces on campus, an innovation that would meet commuter students' needs while also moving toward transportation sustainability.
ASMC recommends that Mills College become a "smoke-reduced" campus, raise the smoking fine to $100 and create 10 designated smoking areas.
About 190 people, many of whom were students, showed up for last week’s Mills College Fall Community Meeting to begin a conversation with the administration about using faculty and staff furloughs to address this year’s $3.5 million budget deficit.