Merced College

Merced College is open and ready to serve the community, with some classes and operations returning to campus for the Summer 2021 term that began this week. Most classes and many support services remain online, but more and more are being offered in person, and employees are beginning to return to campus. Activities on campus are a welcome…

Hundreds of Merced College graduates, both those from the previous school year and those with freshly minted degrees, made their way through Don…

Merced College supporters and government leaders joined in with educators to break ground Wednesday on the 29,000-square-foot Raj Kahlon Agriculture…

Merced College will hold its first in-person commencement ceremonies since 2019 this week, celebrating both the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 commencement ceremony was held virtually, with the promise that graduates would be able to participate in the next in-person ceremony. As such, the Class…

By Luciana Chavez Faculty won’t be high-fiving graduates as they enter Stadium ’76 on the Merced College campus. President Chris Vitelli won’t shake anyone’s…

This summer, Merced College for Kids (CFK) will offer in-person outdoor classes, as well as virtual classes, and registration is available starting April 9.…

By LUCIANA CHAVEZ Special to Merced College This is the story about how Noel Felix came to feel at home on the Los Banos campus of Merced College, and how the support he found there changed his life. Understand that when Felix graduated from Los Banos High School in 2015, his mother had passed away a few years earlier, he had just turned…

Merced College has announced that it will hold in-person commencement ceremonies in May for the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021, under a plan approved…

California is on the brink of losing the Western monarch butterfly. Local help in the way of mass plantings of milkweed for the butterflies’ sustenance…

When I am fortunate enough to travel to Washington, D.C., I always try to find time visit the many monuments and memorials in and around the capitol. It’s hard not to feel a sense of awe, and feelings of liberty and thankfulness, and a powerful respect and appreciation for the visionary and courageous leaders and trailblazers in our country’s…