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From crafting cocktails to conflict resolution, the graduates of ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ'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 ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ 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.

Hundreds of ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ students took the next step in their lives and careers Friday, May 20, crossing the stage in recognition of their academic achievements at a packed graduation ceremony at Stadium '76.

There are as many great stories about ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ students succeeding and graduating as there are ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ students.We are proud to turn today's spotlight on ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ 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.

Parents who take summer classes at ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ can now get free enrollment for their child in the popular College for Kids summer program, which offers fun learning opportunities in a safe setting for children from 2nd through 8th grade.

More than 1,000 local students are eligible to cross the stage at ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ's graduation ceremony later this month, and a full crowd of family members, friends and supporters are expected to fill Stadium '76 for the first traditional graduation since 2019.

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 ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ 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 ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ came to was that it's more adept at delivering an online education than it thought.

³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ 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.