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Nearly 60 years after students voted for "Blue Devils" over "Vikings" as the Merced College mascot, the college has unveiled a series of fresh new logos and wordmarks for its athletics teams and spirit branding.

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.

Title IX turns 50 years old this month. The landmark legislation formally sought to reverse the impact of pervasive sex discrimination on American women. When the Higher Education Amendments passed in 1972, Title IX prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational institution or program receiving federal aid.

As a young, single mother of two, Yvonne "Vonne" Taylor played on the first two women's basketball teams at Merced College in 1992-93 and 1993-94.

From crafting cocktails to conflict resolution, the graduates of Merced College's Hospitality Career Academy learned the skills they need to get jobs in the industry and to better navigate professional and personal relationships.

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.

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.