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Merced College Police Chief Jeffrey Horn wasn’t trying to make history, but that’s just what happened at the February meeting of the Merced College Board of Trustees, when Horn presided over the swearing-in of the college Police Department’s newest officers.

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.

One way to increase employee engagement is to help people feel more invested in what happens within their organization.

One transition all Merced College students must make during the Fall 2022 semester is embracing new Student Success Teams.

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

The Blue Devil Blitz is a simple idea with huge ambition.

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.

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.