An Alameda County Superior Court judge has temporarily halted the planned merger of Mills College in Oakland with Northeastern University in Boston.
As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, the proposed merger has turned into a legal fight in which supporters of East Bay school accuse its leaders of giving up.
Mills is a private women's liberal arts college that also admits gender-nonconforming students in its undergraduate programs and all genders in its graduate programs.
Viji Nakka-Cammauf, Ph.D., who sits on the college's board by virtue of her position as president of the Alumnae Association of Mills College Board of Governors, filed a civil complaint in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that the trustees have not been given