Mills Matters

Summer news in brief

Summer session on the Mills campus looks a bit different this year. The Jill Barrett Undergraduate Research Program in Biology is underway with a cohort of six students. Other usual summer academic programs—including Russell Women in Science, Summer Academic Workshop, and Hellman Summer Math and Science Program—are on hiatus until 2024 due to recruitment and space issues. Meanwhile, a handful of courses are taking place during two separate summer sessions, including an online class for incoming students to introduce them to the Mills campus and the experiential entrepreneurship tracks available to them once they enroll. More to come in the fall issue of the Quarterly

Carolyn Sherwood-Call, director of business programs at the Lorry I. Lokey School of Business and Public Policy and a professor of practice, was the lone retirement among faculty on the Mills campus at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. She started at Mills in 2010, and at a congratulatory reception on Tuesday, April 25, her tenacity and thoughtfulness were applauded by colleagues across campus. SherwoodCall is known as a champion for nontraditional students and a teacher who differentiates her instructional methods to accommodate a variety of learning styles. She also stepped up to serve as interim dean of the Lokey School several times during her tenure at Mills.