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UC Merced graduate student Josiah Beharry appointed as 2024-25 UC student Regent

July 19, 2023

The University of California Board of Regents has appointed University of California, Merced graduate student Josiah Beharry to be the 2024-25 student Regent. Beharry is the 50th student Regent, a position established in 1975. He will serve as the student Regent-designate for the coming...

New Blum Center at UC Merced to Focus on Valley Prosperity

UC Merced has a unique opportunity to help the San Joaquin Valley as the university forges the newest branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. The $400,000, two-year seed grant through the...

UC Goes Social to Raise Scholarship Funds

The University of California today (Sept. 18) began Promise for Education, a six-week crowd-funding campaign to engage students, faculty, alumni, celebrities, businesses, politicians and supporters...

Roderic Park, Former Acting Chancellor, Dies at 81

Roderic Park, former acting chancellor of UC Merced and a major campus planner and benefactor, passed away on Sept. 6. He was 81. A distinguished professor, researcher and administrator who spent...

Development Plan's Amendment Endorsed by UC Board of Regents

The University of California, Merced, today received approval from the UC Board of Regents’ Committee on Grounds and Buildings of an amendment to its development plan that will allow more rapid and...

UC Merced Celebrates Largest Graduating Class

A joyous throng of 776 degree candidates of the University of California, Merced, today marched through the Beginnings Sculpture and onto the campus’ South Bowl to receive their prized degrees,...

Students Speak Out at Regents Meeting, Demonstration

About 50 students on Monday gathered at UC Merced to publicly call for state and federal lawmakers to reinvest in higher education to stave off future tuition increases and to call on the UC Board of...

State Budget Shortfall Forces Second Fee Increase for Fall 2011

The University of California Board of Regents today (July 14) approved a plan to close a $1 billion budget shortfall through a combination of higher student tuition, cost-cutting measures and...

Dorothy Leland Named Campus Chancellor by Regents

Georgia College & State University President Dorothy Leland was appointed today by the University of California Board of Regents to serve as the third chancellor of UC Merced, capping a national...

UC President Announces Campus Chancellor Recommendation

Dorothy Leland has been nominated by University of California President Mark G. Yudof to serve as UC Merced's third chancellor. The nomination will go before the UC Board of Regents next week for a...