Oakland's Mills College to Stop Granting Degrees
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 1:09.9 | Mills College, an Oakland institution since 1852, announced Wednesday that it will end its role as a degree-granting college. |
| 1:15.0 | No more students will be admitted, and the last degrees are likely to be awarded no later than 2023. |
| 1:22.2 | We'll hear how declining enrollment, budget deficits, and the COVID-19 pandemic played into the decision and what's next for the school. |
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| 1:50.0 | That's ahead on Forum right after this news. Thank you. Filling in this week as your guest host. |
| 1:53.2 | This week, Mills College made a shocking announcement. |
| 1:56.8 | A school founded two years after California became an American state, |
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