Acquisitions

By Berkeley:

Days after announcing it’ll stop issuing academic degrees in a couple of years, Mills College is forging new ties with UC Berkeley in its bid to financially survive while shifting its mission. In a letter to the school community Thursday, Mills President Elizabeth Hillman announced a new program in which Mills will host 200 of UC Berkeley’s freshman students at its Oakland campus starting this fall. UC Berkeley calls it the Changemaker in Oakland Program.

Indeed, Mills is undergoing major change. It’s preparing to cease operating as a standalone liberal arts college and transition into an “institute,” although it remains unclear exactly what that means. The UC Berkeley program will “provide a new source of revenue that will help support services for Mills students during our transition period,” Hillman said...

Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/25/amid-an-uncertain-future-mills-college-campus-will-be-home-to-hundreds-of-uc-berkeley-students/

By UCLA:

...UCLA Health, which took ownership of the [Olympia] property in January and is leasing it back to Alecto while it winds down services, said it provided the company with “the ability to keep Olympia Medical Center’s doors open” long enough to help see the community through the pandemic. UCLA Health is exploring plans to turn the property into a mental health facility...

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-28/l-a-is-united-against-the-closure-of-olympia-medical-center-so-why-is-it-still-happening