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.
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.
April 1, 2017
As a part of the Financial Literacy Series at San Diego Mesa College, Certified Financial Planner Paul S. Lim taught a class to give students tips on how to do their taxes during the Income Taxes Made Simple on March 14.
“There are a lot of professionals and individuals who like to make the tax code more complicated than it has to be, so my goal in this class is to help to give you a framework so you can understand how the law works,” Lim said.
During his class, Lim taught students about what the tax bracket is and how it works, as well as how to fill out the 1040 Individual Income Tax Return form. One of the biggest pieces of advice that he gave was that unless you have kept all possible deductions on file – and those deductions exceed the standard deduction of $6,300 – it is best to claim the $6,300 in lieu of your individual deductions.
The next event in the Financial Literacy Series is Your Credit Score & You in LRC 435 at 11:30 a.m. on April 4, where Chase Peckham will visit Mesa College to discuss credit scores and how they work. Peckham is the Director of Community Outreach for the San Diego Financial Literacy Center, overseeing educational content for the organization.
Lim will return to Mesa College on April 25 to teach the basics to wisely investing money during his Introduction to Investments in LRC 435 at 11:30 a.m. The final event is in the Financial Literacy Series will take place May 9, when Lim, Peckham and Rae Russell will return to answer questions from the audience about finances, moderated by Professor Howard Eskew.
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.
Tags: Financial Literacy Series, Financial Literacy Taskforce
Jennifer Nichols Kearns
Director of Communications
jnkearns@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-2759
Howard Eskew
Professor - Business
heskew@sdccd.edu
(619) 388-5957
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.
