Merced College 2010-2011 Catalog

MERCED COLLEGE 209.384.6000
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Merced College Foundation
The Merced College Foundation is a non-profit organization which
was formed in November 1973. The mission of the Foundation is to
provide support to Merced College by administering and awarding
scholarships to students; accepting and acquiring gifts, bequests,
endowments, and real and personal property as sources of income
for the Foundation; and serving as the organization through which
special projects desired by the College can be developed and
administered. Call for more information at (209) 381-6470.
The Merced Campus
The Merced Campus is located one mile north of Olive Avenue
in Merced, on the east side of M Street. It originally consisted of
110 acres presented as a gift to the College by the C-H-M and the
Yosemite Land & Cattle Companies through the efforts of Merced
City officials. Additional purchases of adjacent land increased the
size of the present campus to 269 acres.
Classes began for students September 10, 1963, at a temporary
campus at the Merced County Fairgrounds. The College began
classes at the permanent campus in the summer of 1966 and
moved completely to the new campus in spring of 1967. Dedication
ceremonies for the new campus were held on April 23, 1967.
The Administration Building, the Science Building, and a temporary
library facility were the first main buildings built. The Student Union
was completed in November 1967, and since that time, facilities
added include a gymnasium, an automotive shop, agriculture
facilities, and technical labs for drafting, engineering, and vocational
nursing. The Lesher Library and the Merced College Theater were
completed for use in the fall of 1972.
Over the next 30 years, many facilities were completed or modified
to meet current needs. The Merced College Child Development
Center was completed in spring of 2002, expanding the outer
perimeter of the College’s educational facilities northward;
eastward expansion is also expected within the next few years.
In 2002, voters passed a bond measure for the Merced Campus
(Measure H) of 53.5 million dollars. The following projects have
been completed: the North Loop Road, a campus-wide energy
retrofit, the Learning Resources Center, the Science Building
remodel, the Business Resource Center, the Lesher Building
remodel, Administration Building remodel, Student Union Building
remodel and the Allied Health Complex. Future planned projects
include the Agriculture and Industrial Technology Project, the
Vocational Building remodel, and the Theater Arts remodel.
The Los Baños Campus of
Merced College
The Los Baños Campus, an educational center forty miles west of
the Merced Campus, serves the people of Los Baños, Dos Palos,
and the surrounding areas. It began as a full-service campus in
September 1971 in rented facilities. In 1973 the Los Baños Unified
School District’s voters approved joining the Merced Community
College District. In 1978 the Dos Palos Joint Elementary School
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District’s voters approved moving from the West Hills Community
College District to the Merced Community College District. The
Los Baños Campus was formally approved by the California
Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office as an educational center
in 1979.
In 1982, thanks to a donation of ten acres by Richard Menezes,
the campus moved to a site on Mercey Springs Road with modular
buildings providing educational opportunities to the residents of
the Westside of Merced County and also serving as a cultural and
intellectual center for the area.
Thanks to a donation of 125 acres by Larry and Georgeann
Anderson and to the passage of a local bond measure, construction
of a new campus began in 2005. The new campus, located on
Highway 152 on the western boundary of Los Baños, opened in
2007.
The campus offers a variety of programs for day and evening
classes. It provides a wide range of academic and vocational
classes, enabling a student to stay in Los Baños and take all
the courses necessary for an associate degree and fulfill all the
breadth requirements of four-year state colleges. Students may
also complete several certificate programs.
Admission and registration procedures are the same as those
for the Merced Campus. For further information, contact the Los
Baños Campus at 22240 Highway 152, Los Baños, 93635; (209)
826-3495.
Off-Campus Programs
In addition to extensive day and evening programs at the Merced
and Los Baños Campuses, Merced College schedules classes
at other community sites in the district, including Chowchilla,
Delhi, Dos Palos, Livingston, and Mariposa. Consult the current
Schedule of Classes for class offerings and locations. For more
information contact Dean Karyn Dower, (209) 384-6067.
HECCC
The Higher Education Consortium of Central California (HECCC),
established in 1981, is a partnership of two universities and four
community colleges committed to the advancement of academic
excellence in a distinctively diverse region. Through dynamic and
evolving collaborations member institutions combine resources,
share intellectual capital, facilitate innovative projects, promote
professional development, and increase equitable access to higher
education. The HECCC members are: California State University,
Stanislaus; Merced College; San Joaquin Delta College; University
of California, Merced; and the Yosemite Community College
District, which includes Columbia College and Modesto Junior
College.
Reciprocity:
General Education (GE) Breadth courses that have been used to
satisfy a GE area at another HECCC institution for an associate
degree will be accepted in lieu of, and satisfy, the specific are
requirement at Merced College. This is known as the HECCC
Reciprocity Agreement. Consult a counselor for more information.
In pursuit of the mission the consortium addresses the following
goals and conditions:
● Flexibility to Meet the Changing Needs of Diverse Learners