in 1926, and becoming the first women's college to offer a computer science major (1974).
=== Reversal of decision to go co-ed ===
In 1990, Mills became the first and only women's college in the US to reverse a decision to go coed. On May 3, 1990, Mills Trustees announced that they had voted to admit male undergraduate students to Mills.
This decision led to a two-week student and staff strike, accompanied by numerous displays of non-violent protests by the students.
At one point, nearly 300 students blockaded the administrative offices and boycotted classes.
On May 18, the Trustees met again to reconsider the decision, leading to a reversal of the vote to go co-ed on the undergraduate level.
=== First single-sex college to formally welcome transgender students ===
In 2014, Mills became the first single-sex college in the U.S. to adopt an admission policy explicitly welcoming transgender students.
The policy stated that undergraduate students who were not assigned to the female sex at birth, but who …
