San Diego, CA. – Since its official launch in September 2019, the San Diego Mesa College Resiliency Fund Campaign has been receiving – on average - $1,000 per day in donations, with total donations up to $67,000 as of November 18, 2019. Leading donors who made this possible include California Coast Credit Union, which provided an Olympian Gold sponsorship, and a generous bequest from Mesa Alumnus Warren Rigdon.
San Diego City and Mesa colleges have received a combined total of nearly $1.7 million in federal Department of Education grants supporting the academic achievement of Latino/a students as part of the schools’ designations as Hispanic Serving Institutions.
On Wednesday, September 25, San Diego Mesa College Athletics has been awarded the DeVore Trophy for the 2018-19 calendar year. The DeVore Award is presented each year to a Pacific Coast Athletics Conference (PCAC) member college with the most successful men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletic program for the academic year. Mesa College finished 2018-19 with a total of 217 total points overall. The last time Mesa won the DeVore Trophy was in 2011-12.
October 23, 2017
Between September 20th and October 12th San Diego Mesa College - a designated Hispanic Serving Institution - presented over a dozen Hispanic Heritage month events. Hundreds of students attended a variety of the events, both on and off campus.
Popular events included the films, “Anita” and “Mar Adentro”/ “The Sea inside”, and “Bajo la Misma Luna”/ “Under the Same Moon”, which highlighted the lives of 3 different Hispanic people. One highly anticipated event was the grand opening of the STEM Center, which aims to support Hispanic and low-income students to prepare for STEM majors, and was funded by a Hispanic Serving Institution grant. Mesa also hosted guest speaker Manuel J. Velez for the Campus Conexiones series.
There was a hands-on experience about Ancient Mayan pottery given by Mesa’s Professor Mongelluzzo, who teaches Anthropology, along with an off-campus exhibit called UnDocumenta at the Oceanside Museum of Art. Closing out the month was a well-attended student poster session about Latino/a leaders in the U.S and with guest speaker Tim Hernandez, author of All They Will Call You.
Tags: STEM Center, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Campus Conexiones, Hispanic Heritage Month
Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2759
San Diego City and Mesa colleges have received a combined total of nearly $1.7 million in federal Department of Education grants supporting the academic achievement of Latino/a students as part of the schools’ designations as Hispanic Serving Institutions.
On Saturday, March 2, Mesa College will host multiple interactive booths on EXPO Day at Petco Park, via the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering. EXPO Day, now in its 11th year, is a FREE day-long celebration of STEM in San Diego, where non-profits, educational institutions and corporations that hold exhibits and provide activities for children K-12. The Science Festival’s mission is to engage and encourage kids in science and engineering and work with parents and teachers to inspire today’s students to become tomorrow’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) innovators.
During the 2017 Fall semester at San Diego Mesa College, a class of advanced Interior Design students collaborated on a real-life project with the STEM Center Staff to redesign the space in the STEM Center. This project was organized and completed under the supervision of Professor of Interior Design, Farida Gabdrakhmanova as a part of the Interior Design 205 – Non-Residential Space Planning course.
