of California.
=== Faculty ===
Notable Mills faculty have included modernist composers Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio; experimental and electronic music composer and performer Pauline Oliveros; contemporary artist Hung Liu; postmodern dance pioneer Anna Halprin; award-winning scholar, filmmaker and activist Susan Stryker; book artist Julie Chen; visual artist and author Ajuan Mance; choreographer and performer Molissa Fenley; experimental musicians/composers/performers Maggi Payne, Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell and James Fei; young adult author Kathryn Reiss; poet and editor Juliana Spahr; computer scientist Ellen Spertus; and artist/photographer Catherine Wagner.
== Rankings (pre-merger) ==
For 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Mills in the following "Best Regional Universities West" categories:
No. 1 in Best Value Schools
No. 1 in Best Undergraduate Teaching
No. 8 in Most Innovative Schools (tied)
No. 12 in Regional Universities West
No. 13 in Top Performers on Social Mobility (tied)
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