In May 2017, Mills College declared a "financial emergency" after years of enrollment declines and general budget woes slid the the Oakland, California-based women's college into a $9 million deficit. Administrators ended up laying off five tenured professors, a move usually reserved for the most financially precarious situations. Now once again, Mills' operations have come under scrutiny as it looks to use an unorthodox method to fill financial gaps: selling off two valuable items from its library collection. These are the leaves from the First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays and a musical manuscript, which news reports have identified as a handwritten score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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