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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - This twelvemonth marks 20 years since the archetypal bobcats stepped onto UC Merced's campus.
"Sep. 5, 2005, the precise archetypal Bobcats 875 students, undergrad postgraduate transfers began here. And truthful we're conscionable astir 9000 students and a overmuch larger population," Juan Sanchez Munoz, the chancellor of UC Merced, said.
Munoz says the aboriginal of the assemblage is looking bright, with projects expected to beryllium completed by the autumn of 2026.
"We're gathering a fig of facilities for caller world programs, including aesculapian acquisition and training, caller dormitories, caller schoolroom buildings," Munoz said.
Students tin expect a caller epoch for Bobcat Athletics.
"We were elevated to NCAA Division Two, and our archetypal contention volition beryllium Friday, Sept. 5, Women's Soccer. You're each invited to come," Munoz said.
It's the archetypal time of elder twelvemonth for Gianluka Santacruz. He says helium is excited to spot what the twelvemonth holds, and his proposal for freshmen is to get involved.
"Just enactment yourself retired there, you know, spell to similar clubs, you know, conscionable fig retired what benignant of clubs we person connected field and past conscionable effort to articulation which 1 you deliberation you acceptable in," Santacruz said.
Director of Student Involvement Enrique Guzman says determination are plentifulness of opportunities for students to marque connections.
"We person the antithetic vocation fairs and engagement fairs wherever our students get the accidental to look astatine each the antithetic 257 organizations that we person connected field to spot however they tin get involved," Guzman said.
UC Merced Police privation students to person a amusive schoolhouse twelvemonth portion besides staying harmless with the caller Bobcat Safety Resource app.
"It has a ton of resources from everything from the resources the constabulary section provides from our intelligence services, our CAPS office, our attraction office," UC Merced Police Chief Chou Her said.
