Graduation

Students, family, and faculty celebrated Merced College’s 60th graduation commencement ceremony last Friday at Don Odishoo Field. The stadium was standing room only as students entered to receive their diplomas. Merced College gave out more than 3,000 degrees and certificates for the 2022-23 academic year. Merced College President…

By Luciana Chavez A “we can do this” attitude should be the ethos of any good community college. Merced College does impressive work living that…

Among the nearly 1,500 UC Merced graduates who participated in three separate commencement ceremonies last weekend, there were two standout…

Nearly 1,500 students plan to participate in UC Merced's Spring 2023 Commencement that will be celebrated this weekend with three distinct ceremonies on the campus's Recreation Field. The first ceremony kicks off Friday, May 12, at 6 p.m. for the Graduate Division. Forty-one master's candidates and 61 Ph.D. candidates will cross the stage…

Alan Peterson, the superintendent of the Merced Union High School District, released a video on the district's Facebook site on Monday evening about…

It has been 65 years since Marcella Baca’s classmates graduated from high school, but remarkably this spirited 83-year-old great grandmother who lives in…

The City of Merced's Class of 2019 was warmly greeted by friends, family, and community members as they made their way to Merced High, Golden Valley, and El Capitan's graduation ceremonies on Thursday evening. Taken together, the hundreds of student scholars, athletes, musicians, actors, and Mercedians from all walks of life that make up the Class…

BY GLENN MOLLETTE Everyone looks forward to graduation. For the high school senior it seemed like the day would never come. The college graduate breathes a…

By Elizabeth Arakelian (UC Merced press release) When Anna Ocegueda walks across the stage at UC Merced’s 2019…

UC Merced's Victoria Arias was the student speaker today during the 2019 Commencement for the schools of Engineering and Natural Sciences. “I really feel like UC Merced has taught me that it’s not the name, but the experiences you have in school,” Arias said recently in a student profile. Arias, of Clovis, initially was…