AAMC NEWS & NOTES One AAMC committee, the Alumnae of Color Committee (AOCC), has been showing their support for the College by steadily adding to the Alumnae of Color Endowed Scholarship Fund, created in honor of President Emerita Alecia DeCoudreaux to support students of color. The committee is working hard to grow its endowment to $200,000. The AOCC had quite a successful fundraising campaign in the fall, as well as a fantastic fundraising concert in February featuring Oakland recording artist Kev Choice, singer Jennifer Johns, and the Lucy Kinchen Chorale. You can contribute to the scholarship fund at alumnae .mills.edu/alumsofcolorgive. The AAMC has also been the beneficiary of Mills graduates’ generosity. We recently welcomed back into our circle of donors a number of alumnae who
A Message from the AAMC President
have not made gifts for more than 15 years. Contributions to the AAMC Fund support a wide range of activities, from events for students to our MillsConnect
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networking and mentoring program had hoped to tell to you about all
you are able, please consider support-
(connect.mills.edu), and we are deeply
the ways the AAMC would cel-
ing our alma mater. College leaders, fac-
grateful to all our donors, new and old.
ebrate Mills students this spring,
ulty, and staff are working tremendously
You can also express your support of
with events like the Pearl M Dinner and
hard to keep the community safe and
Mills and the AAMC by voting for our
the International Student Dinner. But
continue to provide students with an
alumna trustee nominee (see facing page
just before this issue of the Quarterly
empowering education. Mills will face
and inside back cover) or by serving
went to press, the COVID-19 pandemic
additional financial strains as a result of
on a committee of the AAMC Board of
changed everything. Instruction for all
the pandemic. At the same time, it con-
Governors. I encourage you to peruse the
classes moved online, and most students
tinues to address a structural deficit and
AAMC website for a list of the commit-
returned to their homes. Spring events
must seek new ways of fundraising and
tees and descriptions of their activities.
were cancelled or postponed, including
new revenue streams to close this gap,
As spring blossoms all around us, I am
Commencement and the AAMC annual
as President Hillman has noted in her
reminded that Mills College has endured
meeting that would have taken place on
Quarterly letters.
longer than any of us have been alive. It
The AAMC proudly supported the
has been through all manner of crises,
As I write this, at the end of March,
College by extending a $2 million line of
and it will surely weather this pandemic
California remains under a “shelter in
credit in 2017. This loan helped fund two
with integrity and strength. I am grate-
place” order. The campus is closed to all
important academic initiatives: redesign
ful for our donors as well as alumnae
visitors, including alumnae. AAMC staff
of the undergraduate student experi-
who serve the AAMC in various ways to
and volunteers are working from home.
ence, known as M POWER, and the
enrich our legacy and ensure our com-
This situation may change by the time
creation of online degrees for selected
mitment to Mills for the next generation.
you receive this magazine; please email
School of Education graduate programs.
Warmly,
us at aamc@mills.edu for an update.
We continue to look for ways our asso-
Viji Nakka-Cammauf, MA ’82
ciation can help strengthen the College’s
President, Alumnae Association of
financial position.
Mills College
the same day.
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