"Mills College faculty cheered when hundreds of students occupied the Oakland campus for 13 days in 1990 and forced the school’s trustees to reverse their decision to admit male undergraduates as a way to raise money.
Now Mills, one of only 36 women’s colleges remaining in the United States, is again deep in the hole. But unlike dozens of other women’s schools that have voted in recent decades to admit men to solve financial woes, Mills trustees made a controversial decision of a different kind this summer: They fired tenured professors, a move rare in academia and unprecedented at Mills." …