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UC Merced offering unique program to keep local high school students around KFSN MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- UC Merced announced a unique program designed to keep some of the area's top academic talent in the Valley. Students in the Merced Union High School District who qualified to attend UC Merced will automatically be accepted for admission. Over half the student body in the district went back to school on Monday. Many El Capitan High School students resumed in-person classes. But they also learned about how they could take a direct path from high school to UC Merced if they could maintain at...

Deadline to fill out FAFSA for California students is Tuesday The FAFSA is a form for incoming and future college students that determines their eligibility for financial aid. KFSN Share: FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Tuesday is the deadline in California to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for students looking for help paying for college. The FAFSA is a form for incoming and future college students that determines their eligibility for financial aid. Students can receive financial assistance for things such as two free years of community college, books, a computer and o...

A recent study done by researchers at UC Merced found 80% of young adults at the campus had high levels of anxiety and depression, and many of them were turning to drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism.

UC sees record-breaking applications after standardized testing requirements dropped FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 UC Berkeley is seeing record applications after standardized testing requirements were dropped.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less 2of5 A woman sits on the roof of the student union at UC Berkeley during a racial justice demonstration in June.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 Sister Zylah Arevalo (left) and mother Leslie Arevalo help Sebastian Arevalo, 17, move into his dorm at UC Berkeley in August.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2020Show Mor...

UC Merced probes into professor's anti-Semitic tweets FacebookTwitterEmail UC Merced School of Engineering Professor Abbas Ghassemi is accused of posting anti-Semitic tweets and images.Courtesy of UC Merced UC Merced is launching an investigation into whether a professor who maintained a Twitter account rife with anti-Semitic remarks and images broke any of the school rules, and what, if any, consequences the university ought to impose. Abbas Ghassemi, a teaching professor in the UC Merced School of Engineering, tweeted anti-Semitic posts and posted images found on anti-Semitic conspiracy web...