Letter to the Editor I just read (cover to cover) the fall 2019 Volume CIX, Number 3 (USPS 349-900) Spring 2020 President Elizabeth L. Hillman Vice President for Institutional Advancement Jeff Jackanicz Senior Director of the Annual Fund and Alumnae Relations Nikole Hilgeman Adams
issue of Mills Quarterly and felt so proud of the direction the College is taking. The fact that you have adjunct professors who truly feel connected to their departments is encouraging—in my observations at community colleges, they are dreadfully exploited. That seems not to be the case from the testimonials in the magazine, and I was happy to read that the College is hiring a lot of tenure-track
Managing Editor Allison Rost
folks as well.
Design and Art Direction Nancy Siller Wilson
“Building Community, Building Leaders.”
Editorial Assistant Lila Goehring ’21
can’t quite believe how you arrived in
feelings of young women not groomed by
such a special place, is something I did as
their high schools or families to attend an
Contributors Nora Aoyagi Susan McCarthy Angelica Navarro ’21 Kate Robinson Beckwith, MFA ’13
a young lawyer. At that point, there were
elite college.
Editorial Advisory Committee Angela Bacca, MBA ’12 Sheryl Bize-Boutte ’73 Melissa Bender Henley ’99 Dawn Cunningham ’90 Myila Granberry ’05 Sarah Lehman ’86 Mira Mason-Reader ’15 Mari Matoba ’03 Livi Perez ’14, MA ’17 Mason Stockstill, MFA ’09
I was also quite moved by the article Confidence building, especially when you
not a lot of women lawyers in my commu-
Keep up the good work. I’m impressed
nity. The Summer Academic Workshop
at how the College is evolving when I
as presented now seems well crafted, and
had previously been very concerned for
I’m thrilled that it is not only academi-
its future.
cally rigorous but also empathetic to the
–Margaret Fawcett ’63, Sausalito, California
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