Troy Cristobal is the winner of this year’s 2020 Mesa Scholarship President’s Award, given annually to a deserving Mesa College student who demonstrates leadership and academic excellence in their undergraduate career. Troy is a worthy recipient on both counts, having served as team captain for Mesa’s track and field team since the spring of 2019, and set to graduate this May as an Engineering major with a cumulative 4.0 GPA.
The Olympian Speech and Debate team is living up to its reputation as a competitive, award-winning force. After competing in four tournaments during the fall, and a fifth this semester, the Mesa Speech and Debate Team has racked up numerous titles and awards. They have been working hard and achieving success at competitions across the nation, including in New York, where Mesa students Franklin McKenzie and Katya Azzam garnered a well-earned parliamentary debate win against Ivy League Cornell University’s team (see below for a full list of achievements).
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Feb. 05, 2020) – Local community college students will be able to access and attain a San Diego State University degree through new partnerships with two community colleges without ever having to step foot on the SDSU campus. As an initial pilot of the SDSU microsite model, SDSU will launch bachelor’s degree completion programs at San Diego Mesa College and Southwestern College in Business Administration and Criminal Justice, beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year. Additional programs are being planned for future years
May 09, 2018 | Office of Communications
San Diego, CA ---- On Saturday, May 12 at 2:00 p.m., San Diego Mesa College Dramatic Arts presents, “You Will Be Found”, a musical revue featuring hit songs from Chicago, Rent, Coco, LaLaLand, The Greatest Showman and many more. The benefit performance serves as a fundraiser for scholarships for Drama students.
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March 16, 2017 | Lauren J. Mapp
Students from San Diego Mesa College’s Department of Dramatic Arts will be performing Karel Švenk’s “The Last Cyclist” for a second - and closing - weekend starting March 17.
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December 12, 2016 | Lauren J. Mapp
As part of this semester’s costume making class, students enrolled in Drama 200 have been making dresses to be donated to the Little Dresses for Africa charity organization that helps to clothe children living in 81 countries in and around Africa.
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August 24, 2016 | Office of Communications
The immigrant experience is coming to the stage in a new devised theater event that begins this fall at San Diego Mesa College. Students, performers, and anyone with a story, experience or interest in immigration are invited to enroll in Drama 268, Experimental Theatre. The class begins Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Apolliad Theatre at Mesa College.
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January 01, 2016 | Office of Communications
San Diego Mesa College is premiering a new, ensemble-created, experimental theatre production of UN-SHELTERED. This is an original play about homelessness based upon the compelling interviews conducted by Mesa College Experimental Theatre students with San Diego’s downtown homeless. The stage play premieres on Tuesday, April 12, and runs through April 17 at the Apolliad Theatre at Mesa College.
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May 12, 2015 | Office of Communications
San Diego Mesa College’s Drama Department is bringing homelessness to the stage with an original workshop production entitled, “Un-Sheltered,” a compilation of vignettes based on student interviews with the homeless in downtown San Diego.
Read It NowFiled Under: Homeless, Theater, Dramatic Arts
Troy Cristobal is the winner of this year’s 2020 Mesa Scholarship President’s Award, given annually to a deserving Mesa College student who demonstrates leadership and academic excellence in their undergraduate career. Troy is a worthy recipient on both counts, having served as team captain for Mesa’s track and field team since the spring of 2019, and set to graduate this May as an Engineering major with a cumulative 4.0 GPA.
The Olympian Speech and Debate team is living up to its reputation as a competitive, award-winning force. After competing in four tournaments during the fall, and a fifth this semester, the Mesa Speech and Debate Team has racked up numerous titles and awards. They have been working hard and achieving success at competitions across the nation, including in New York, where Mesa students Franklin McKenzie and Katya Azzam garnered a well-earned parliamentary debate win against Ivy League Cornell University’s team (see below for a full list of achievements).
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Feb. 05, 2020) – Local community college students will be able to access and attain a San Diego State University degree through new partnerships with two community colleges without ever having to step foot on the SDSU campus. As an initial pilot of the SDSU microsite model, SDSU will launch bachelor’s degree completion programs at San Diego Mesa College and Southwestern College in Business Administration and Criminal Justice, beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year. Additional programs are being planned for future years
