Merced College

UC Merced and Merced College will jointly build a 488-bed student housing project for community college and transfer students. The California Legislature gave final approval to the $100 million funding mechanism for the project on Wednesday, Aug. 30. The Promise Housing facility will offer rooms on UC Merced’s campus to…

Merced College enrollments are on the rise. Like most community colleges throughout the state, Merced College saw significant enrollment decline during the…

For this summer’s College for Kids community program at Merced College, local children worked incredibly hard on a production of Seussical Jr.,…

By Luciana Chavez When the Rising Scholars program began at Merced College in the spring semester of 2016, the mission was to remove as many obstacles as possible to assist currently and formerly incarcerated people to access and earn a college education. After seven and a half years, largely under the leadership of professor and faculty…

Merced, California and Kyoto, Japan are nearly 5,500 miles apart, but their research universities’ shared goals to improve society is bringing them together. A…

By Luciana Chavez They entered the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Chowchilla years ago, emotionally wrung out by tragedy, criminal…

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…

Supporters of Merced College — including an array of distinguished guests and local leaders — gathered Tuesday for the ninth annual State of the…

Andrew M. Flores has been selected as the Merced College Student of the Year for 2022-2023, ranking first among the Student of the Month cohort for the…

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 philosophy, and the proof can be found in what must be considered one of the biggest wins of the 2023 graduation season. Carl Schwesinger, 47, father to twins Jacob and Jeremiah Schwesinger, both…