'People are just incredulous that someone of his stature could be summarily dismissed.' Mills College intends to lay off seminal composer and improviser Roscoe Mitchell,due to the school's budget crisis — and the international music community is incensed. In May, the historic college announced emergency measures — namely, or restructuring departments and jettisoning mostly tenured professors — in order to resolve a $9 million projected budget shortfall.…
Source: eastbayexpress.com