Talk:Mills College

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Contents 1 Thanks for the recent work on this 2 Controversy 3 Faculty 4 Women's College 5 Note on Bias 6 Controversies at Mills 7 Architecture 8 Alumnae

[edit] Thanks for the recent work on this

Thanks to everyone for their recent work on this. One quick comment - the lead section needs to be entirely re-written. Please take a look at WP:LEAD for ideas. Also, at the moment, it appears to be a cut and paste of the college's "mission statement." If that is the situation (and I haven't double-checked it), that would likely be a copyright violation, and really should be removed.

Again, thanks to everyone for working hard on this, and with some tweaking on the lead section, the article is off to a great start! NorCalHistory 16:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

---Thanks for raising the question of copyright use and proper introduction guidelines. I have added the college's mission information (with reference link) to the article body to keep it in line with proper protocol. Glad you like the updates! --Catsmith mills 01:13, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy

There's been ongoing controversy on the repeated removal of staff with alternative viewpoints. What is the policy on writing about it? --EarthSprite^∞ 05:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Faculty

Molissa Fenley, the dancer, is a Mills graduate and currently on the faculty in the dance department. She ought to be added to both the faculty lists and the alumni lists. - Leila, Mills MFA in English 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.122.195.154 (talk) 05:24, 12 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Women's College

I changed "woman's college" back to "women's college". The latter is the standard term. See for example Women's College Coalition Homepage. Espertus 00:53, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Note on Bias

It has been stated by staff of Mills that the format, design, and writing of this Wiki page was created primarily by the Mills College marketing department. Keep it in mind. It could use edits. ~~ ((A wandering WikiGnome)) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.91.63.181 (talk) 19:54, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Controversies at Mills

It might be nice to add a section on controversies at Mills. The biggest one, of course, is the strike, which has already been mentioned. Others might be controversial tenure denials and lawsuits and Nalini (Gwyn) Ghuman's visa problems.

[edit] Architecture

I added a section on Julia Morgan buildings. Perhaps this should be part of a larger section on architecturally significant buildings, which would also include Mills Hall and the new Natural Sciences building. Espertus (talk) 07:23, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alumnae

I know and like Daisy Gonzalez '07, but I'm not sure she's prominent enough to be on the list.

Should we indicate that "alumnae" Laurie Anderson and Sofia Coppola didn't graduate from Mills? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Espertus (talk • contribs) 04:08, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

The notable alumni section should include people who have a wikipedia article or who meet the notability guidelines but have not had an article written about them yet. Other articles I have looked at indicate that people attended a school but did not graduate. BlueAzure (talk) 19:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the link to me.

How do other pages indicate that someone attended but did not graduate? Espertus (talk) 05:14, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Almost every page I looked at indicates it in a different way. The way at List of Mount Holyoke College people looks pretty good, in parenthesis it states attended and the years attended. BlueAzure (talk) 21:25, 2 March 2008 (UTC)