Mills, a Women's College of Education in New York City, Fifty Years Later: Gone but Forgotten

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Author(s): John Reed (The New School, USA)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 30
Source title: Narratives of Upheaval in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Denise Simard (The State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA)and Janet Acker (The State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-2063-2.ch003

Keywords: Educational Leadership & Administration / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management and Library Science

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September 3, 1972: The New York Times headlined: “Merger planned by Mills College.” The Times went on: “Students … will take their liberal arts courses at The New School for Social Research and their teacher‐training courses at New York University.” The Mills College of Education, once a progressive exercise in higher education had become a fusty artifact. The presumption that women's education should begin with teacher training was no longer current, and Mills exemplified a bygone era. Nevertheless, as an acquisition, the sixty-three year-old institution offered two appealing academic possibilities. Born out of suffragette ideas and activism, The New School had long shown an interest in women's studies. And yet The New School (as well as New York University) would fail to realize the cultural capital of Mills. Why dissolve Mills? On the fiftieth anniversary of the demise of Mills College, this investigation seeks to tell the story.

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