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Current and former foster care students in the Merced College NextUp program will tell you their guides turn themselves inside out to offer help.The staff will tell you the students inspire their work even more.

There are as many great stories about Merced College students succeeding and graduating as there are Merced College students.We are proud to turn today's spotlight on Merced College family members--employees Alexis Alkema and Margaret Pulido, and Anaya Cambridge, daughter of counselor Isabel Cambridge--who will graduate May 20 with the Class of 2022.

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.

One responsibility the pandemic has forced on educators is to rethink everything they do for students.One realization Merced College came to was that it's more adept at delivering an online education than it thought.

Merced College professors grabbed hold of the challenge to quickly turn the college into an online school as the pandemic began. Two years on, they haven't let go.

In honor of Women's History Month, the Blue Devil's Advocate is proud to present a special Q&A with Merced College's first woman president, E. Jan Kehoe.

Merced College alumna Nicole Silveira feels at her best inside a courtroom. The current Supervising Deputy District Attorney of Merced County appreciates the challenges — the professional one that sizes up her prosecutorial skill, and the personal one that sizes up her fight.

It began easily enough. A group of Merced College students had gathered on Zoom last summer to participate in an improvement program. The single parents were all recharging their batteries before the fall semester.

Taylor Brown has wanted to serve as an elected official since she was in elementary school.Something about watching her mother Christie bring history to life, reading books about Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. and other historical figures, has filled her with the hunger to chase public office.

Merced College has for years offered programs to specifically reach and nurture Black students, Latino students, disabled students, students who are military veterans, foster youth, homeless or anyone struggling academically.