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Believing in Merced College, engaging with its community and committing their professional lives to the college’s mission feels natural for sisters Myshel Pimentel and Keri Ortiz.

Like many students, John Chavez Jr. took a speech class during his time at Merced College.

Christie Bryant was fuming. The Merced College women's basketball team was facing Reedley College in a tough game back during the 2006 season. Bryant, a freshman forward, had just given some half-hearted effort, forcing Blue Devils' head coach Allen Huddleston to yank his best all-around player out of the game.

See Lee, the new CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Merced County (BGCMC) was a new college graduate and working as a gang and teen pregnancy prevention specialist for Valley Community Schools (VCS) in Merced when she administered a survey to 200 of their students.

Cory McCullough was at the skate park, watching several of his and his fiancée Ashley's six children roll around.While taking a break from studying sound wave propagations, he explained how he had become a UC Merced Ph.D. candidate, a Merced College mathematics instructor, a convicted felon, a father and a drug addict, all by age 33.