Mills College and its alumnae association have mutually agreed to drop the lawsuits they filed against each other related to a merger/acquisition by Northeastern University in Boston, officials with both parties said.

Mills College is expected to officially merge with Northeastern University around July 1 following apparent financial troubles the Oakland-based college was facing due to declining enrollment.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.