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Medical Assistant program makes anticipated, Los Banos debut this month
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Automotive Technology program revs into next turn as Fast Track option improves
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Merced College to Benefit from $100 Million Donation to Support California Community Colleges
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- 11/05/2020 - Virtual Workshop: Understanding Credit
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Blue Devil Alumni and Success Stories
Alumni Joseph Trujillo
"The hardest part now [during my medical training] is exactly what they say, ‘The more you know, the more you realize what you don’t know.’ . . . You have no choice but to grow up and learn from it."
Alumni Tim Slenders
The Chowchilla native, Merced College alumnus and new Mariposa County sheriff, was minding his business with his peers at Fresno City College Police Office Standards and Training (POST) graduation on July 15. Then someone started talking about a special graduate, the Top Cadet of the graduating class. And then he called Slenders’ name.
Alumni Assemblymember Adam Gray
Adam Gray is a true son of Merced County, having graduated from Golden Valley High School (1996) and earned his credits at Merced College before transferring to UC Santa Barbara and graduating there in 2000. Now Gray is making his professional mark on behalf of Merced County and much of Stanislaus County while serving in the State Assembly since his election in 2012.
Alumni Jill Cunningham
Jill Cunningham has taken on Merced College, not once, but twice so far in her lifetime. Cunningham first came to the College after graduating from Le Grand High School “in the 80s.” Here she earned 60 credits, and then transferred to American University in Washington, D.C. Her second trip is ongoing. A longtime political operative in our nation’s capital and the Bay Area, she returned in 2017 to serve as Associate Vice President of External Relations and Executive Director of the Merced College Foundation. For our alumni issue, Cunningham now ruminates on her experiences as a Blue Devil—the one that was preordained, and the one that brought her home.
Alumni Jacob Fernandez
Jacob Fernandez had barely landed at Merced College in January after a year studying and wrestling at Modesto Junior College, when his education plan turned on a dime. The 2017 El Capitan High graduate thought his athletic career was done, so he came home to save money, work, maybe start a business degree. Eventually he found out the College would field a wrestling club starting in 2019-2020. Once here, Fernandez earned another shot at wrestling glory, a four-year college athletics scholarship and the motivation to take his academic career further. Here the soon-to-be Wheeling (W.V.) University Cardinal shares the journey through Merced College that will take him across the country, well, just as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes.
Alumni Zachary McComb
Zachary McComb did not grow up liking school. Learning had always been a struggle. After he graduated from Independent High School in 2008, he followed the crowd to Merced College. A good experience there, plus help with his learning disability, eventually gave him an AA in Human Sciences and an AS in Biological Sciences (2012). That led him to UC Merced and a BS in Biological Sciences (2014). By then his educational sky had cleared and McComb headed to Western University of Health Sciences to become a dentist. By 2019, McComb had finished his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree. While his career path looks like a straight line, it was more like a winding road. Here McComb talks about how that circuitous route made him a confident student and eventually a doctor.