The Associated Students (AS) logo is everywhere, and AS hosts plenty of events each year for our students, but who are they really, and what do they do for our campus?
San Diego Mesa College has announced a new partnership with California LAW that will create a pathway for Mesa College students to complete their education and enter the legal profession. Cal LAW collaborates with community colleges to encourage diverse students enter the legal profession in order to represent the diverse population of the state of California. Mesa College will begin accepting interested students into its Pathway to Law School program in Spring 2021. Community colleges such as mesa partnering in the program were chosen due to their high commitment to equity, demonstrated by college leadership and resources that provide transformative educational experiences and support for students on a pathway to a law career.
Add writing a book to Professor Michael Harrison’s impressive list of activities and interests. Most people at Mesa College know him as a Spanish Professor, a member of the LGBTQ+ Task Force, the Co-Advisor for the Mesa Gender-Sexuality Alliance and even as a tenor with the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus. In his “spare time” though, he is a comic book fan. Really. Since forever. And, he loves superheroes in comics. And Comic-Con. Just ask him. His face will light up.
Due to continuity of instruction and rigorous adherence to guidelines and safety practices, 100% of Mesa College’s 2020 graduating Dental students who were seeking employment, were able to get hired this past summer, despite the global pandemic. Even though Mesa’s Dental Assisting students were not allowed to return to campus until June 22, 2020, during that time frame, the Dental Assisting faculty continued to engage and instruct students in their laboratory courses, remotely, through videos, virtual simulations, case studies role playing and discussions.
November 23, 2016
San Diego Mesa College’s Associated Students held a Thanksgiving Feast on Nov. 22 as a way to provide a festive meal to 85 students on campus who may not otherwise have been able to celebrate the holiday.
Students enjoyed a variety of traditional Thanksgiving foods, had chances to win opportunity drawings for gift cards and bonded as a campus community at the feast.
Performances by local bands Three Chamber Heart and Allen Vega Acoustic, as well as musician Scott Merciere, provided musical entertainment during the event, and attendees were able to play board games with one another.
One of the event’s organizers was Angela Arreaga, a Mesa student majoring in American Sign Language Interpretation and is the current Mesa College Inter-Club Council President. She said that in the few years that she has attended or helped to organize the event, she has seen it grow and she hopes that each year “it brings the students closer together with their peers and the faculty.”
“I hope that it reaches the students that’ll be most impacted by it, that it gives people a memory of Mesa that they can remember well after they leave our school,” Arreaga said. “I just want people to know that this is home when they need it.”
Connal McLean, a psychology major who is in both the ICC and Psi Beta National Honor Society in Psychology, was one of the many volunteers who helped to serve food to attendees. He said that he hopes that students get to feel a “sense of community and love” through the event.
“It really shows that we have a diverse and loving community, especially during the holiday times when it can get very stressful, but I think it’s good to show how much of a family we really are,” McLean said.
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The Associated Students (AS) logo is everywhere, and AS hosts plenty of events each year for our students, but who are they really, and what do they do for our campus?
Associated Students at San Diego Mesa College held their AS Carnival on Thursday, April 20 between the Mesa Commons and Exercise Science buildings.
San Diego Mesa College’s Associated Students held a Thanksgiving Feast on Nov. 22 as a way to provide a festive meal to 85 students on campus who may not otherwise have been able to celebrate the holiday.
Students enjoyed a variety of traditional Thanksgiving foods, had chances to win opportunity drawings for gift cards and bonded as a campus community at the feast.
