Second-year student Zora Williams is using her voice to bring more mental health and nutrition programming to San Diego Mesa College. Williams was elected president of the college’s Associated Students (AS) for the 2024-2025 academic year and serves as the college’s student representative on the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees.
Sometimes, you hear a story that makes you want to know more. Kevin Gonzalez has such a story. The last time this story was updated, San Diego Mesa College student Kevin Gonzalez was a 15 year-old heading off to Massachusetts to complete his high school education. In the ensuing years, he has travelled to the other side of the world, built houses, but remained in close contact with his Mesa College professors and connections he made while on campus.
The San Diego Community College District has appointed four new student trustees for the upcoming academic year. Dalia Ramirez (San Diego City College), Zora Williams (San Diego Mesa College), Hailey Hua (San Diego Miramar College), and Haydee Zuniga (San Diego College of Continuing Education), will be sworn in during the June 20 SDCCD Board of Trustees meeting.
November 22, 2016
Faculty, students and staff at San Diego Mesa College are hosting a post-election “Teach-in” in front of the LRC on Wednesday, Nov. 30 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Originally proposed by English professor Joe Safdie during the Academic Senate Executive Committee meeting, the purpose of the event is to give students, faculty and staff an opportunity to discuss the political climate in an educational and constructive manner, according to Robert Fremland.
“We feel this teach-in will bring students of all backgrounds and political beliefs closer together in a safe environment in order to promote better understanding,” Fremland said.
Fremland – Academic Senate President and chemistry professor – said that this event is planned as a way to show how the current political climate was created, how students can get more involved in politics and what the effects of the new administration might be.
“We’re an educational institution, this is definitely a teachable moment and something that we should address not individually in every individual classroom, but as a group,” Fremland said. “This is a historical moment no matter where you are, and there are going to be ramifications. People are concerned, and want to know ‘what should I do, what can I do, how do I do it and should I do anything?’”
Safdie is organizing the speakers for the Teach-inn and the Associated Students will be participating during the Student Remarks forum at 2 p.m. Political Science professor Carl Luna will be one of the speakers during the event.
The Teach-in is sponsored by the Institute for Civil Civic Engagement, and refreshments will be provided by Mesa’s Classified Senate.
On a similar note of helping to ease students’ stress post-election, Student Health Services set up a Mesa Cares banner and table for students, faculty and staff to write about their feelings and words of encouragement on the fourth floor of the Student Services Building.
For more information about the Post-Election Teach-in at Mesa College, contact Rob Fremland via email at rfremlan@sdccd.edu or via phone at (619) 388-2422. For more information on Mesa Cares, contact Suzanne Khambata via email at skhamabat@sdccd.edu and via phone at (619) 388-2774.
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Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2759
Rob Fremland
Professor - Chemistry; President - Academic Senate
rfremlan@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2422
This year for the Third Annual Teach-in event, San Diego Mesa College students, faculty and staff gathered to hear professors across multiple subjects present the topic of “Post-truth.” In our digital age, the lines of truth and opinion often become blurred, making it difficult to discern truth. This has created a climate where there is a decreased value on truth and facts, and an increased value on opinion.
In a joint effort, faculty, students, and staff at San Diego Mesa College hosted the Second Annual Teach-in, with the topic of Free Speech vs. Hate Speech. The Teach-In was on Nov. 14 at the Mesa Commons Promenade, with about 40 students and faculty in attendance. Last fall was the first time that Mesa hosted a Teach-In event and each one has focused on a different discussion topic.
As a way to ease political tensions post-election, San Diego Mesa College faculty, staff and students participated in a Teach-in event in front of the LRC on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
With speeches from political science professor Carl Luna, sociology professor Evan Adelson, psychology professor Inna Kanevsky, AS President Ava Fakhrabadi and more, the event was an information session about the election and campus unity for those in attendance.
