San Diego Mesa College’s Financial Literacy Series is back by popular demand to present students with more exciting speaker events for the fall 2018 semester.
The San Diego Mesa College Math and Science Complex (MS) will once again host the annual Mesa College Research Conference (MCRC) on Friday, May 10, at 8:30am-1pm. This year’s conference will showcase student research across multiple disciplines and provide students the opportunity to present their research in poster format to academics, professionals, fellow students and the community. Some highlighted research methods include quantitative (statistical) and qualitative, data collection and using existing data or sources, and testing hypotheses to generate theses.
San Diego Mesa College will host their 38th Annual Golden Scissors Awards and Fashion Show at the Sheraton Hotel and Marina on Friday, May 3rd 2019. This year’s theme is Forces of Fashion which features designs and clothing created by Mesa Fashion Design students. This event, produced by fashion promotion students, attracts crowds of approximately 700 fashion-minded community members each year.
Mesa College Dance will be presenting Dance Synthesis: An evening of Dance and Entertainment. This spring 2019 dance concert, held nightly at 7:30pm on April 18-20, features an all student choreographed performance at the Joan B. Kroc Theatre at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in San Diego. See Mesa College’s talented dancers take to the stage with energy, passion, and enthusiasm as they perform original choreography created by our student dance makers, including Mesa alumni Chelsea Roquero.
November 7, 2017
On Thursday, Oct 26, San Diego Mesa College held its fourth installment in the Financial Literacy Speaker Series, “Identity Theft”, with Navy veteran and Financial Coach Rae Russell. Russell is a returning speaker from the previous Financial Literacy events and spends her time mentoring families on how to manage their finances.
Russell shared information, crime trends, and advice regarding money and the different points of access with nearly 50 students in attendance. Specific topics included the importance of social security confidentiality, how to be an educated consumer, the pros and cons of advanced technology creating easily accessible information via digital pathways, and ways to protect yourself and your information. One example of a case Russell shared was of a four year old who was already experiencing identity theft and owed $23,000 in credit card debt and had a mortgage filed in their name. The main focus of her presentation was that it really can happen to anyone, and how students need to be proactive about protecting their information.
Howard Eskew, chair of academic affairs committee and assistant professor of business at Mesa College, organizes and moderates these events for the student community. The program focuses on educating students about personal finances and includes topics such as investment basics, spending and saving, credit and loans, and more. The fifth and last installment of the semester, “Ain’t No Question Hard Enough”, will take place on Thursday, Nov 9 in LRC 435. Experts in the industry will be present and available for questions regarding financial topics in a Q&A panel setting.
The Financial Literacy Speaker Series program is made possible due to support from the California Coast Credit Union and the San Diego Financial Literacy Center. For more information about the Financial Literacy Series, contact Howard Eskew at heskew@sdccd.edu or (619) 388-5957.
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Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2759
San Diego Mesa College’s Financial Literacy Series is back by popular demand to present students with more exciting speaker events for the fall 2018 semester.
On Thursday, March 1, 2018 the first of the Spring 2018 Financial Literacy Speaker Series events – The Tax Man Cometh – took place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in LRC 435. Guest speaker, Paul Lim, addressed nearly 50 students, staff and faculty on the basics of income tax, issues to consider, how to calculate deductions, and various strategies the common working person can use to avoid paying too much in taxes each year. Attendees were busy taking notes and filing out the provided tax forms as Lim guided them through the process of filling in the right numbers on these often confusing forms.
On Thursday, Oct 26, San Diego Mesa College held its fourth installment in the Financial Literacy Speaker Series, “Identity Theft”, with Navy veteran and Financial Coach Rae Russell. Russell is a returning speaker from the previous Financial Literacy events and spends her time mentoring families on how to manage their finances.
