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Gloria Steinem has a legacy befitting a woman who helped change American history. Given her impact, the feminist icon’s life is one that deserves reexamination, including the artistic kind. Merced College Performing Arts students will offer that opportunity during their spring production of the Emily Mann-penned play entitled “Gloria: A Life.”

Merced College Professor Nikki Maddux has been around long enough to see an important demographic shift on campus. “Right now, in our animal science department, it’s 87% females,” Maddux said. “If you go back to the 1980s, it would be the other way around. Working with animals requires compassion, which draws women to careers as veterinarians and vet techs.”

Artificial intelligence, automation, electric vehicles, and robotics are reshaping the landscape of agriculture, as evidenced by the AgTechX Summit held at Merced College on March 7.

Merced College alumna Jordan Pierce is running down basketball coaching opportunities like the loud, enthusiastic shooting guard she was for the Blue Devils from 2016-2018.

We went to Orlando Taylor to ask an important question about Black History Month, observed each February. For Taylor—a poet, an academic, and a proud gay Black man—this month carries great meaning. We asked him why this month should matter, not just to the Black community, but to all of us?

Black students account for 6% of the 1.9 million students enrolled in 116 California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country.

Merced College has nurtured two generations of Matt Escobar’s family. The college’s Community Education Coordinator graduated here with one of his twin daughters, a dual-enrollment success story, and spoke at the 2019 graduation. Both twins, Hannah and Katie, 22, graduated from Merced College. His wife Jessica, Mercy Cancer Center clinical manager, earned her registered nursing degree at Merced College.

A woman recently walked into the Merced College Business Resource Center in downtown Merced on a mission.

Merced College works hard to show that training the local workforce and engaging its community with learning opportunities is as much a part of its mission as educating first responders or students who transfer to four-year universities.

MERCED, Calif. — In tribute to a storied career that helped shape the fabric of higher education in the Central Valley, the Merced Community College District Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to rename Merced College’s Business Resource Center after President Emeritus Ben Duran.