Spring 2022 has been a busy season for students and alumni of the San Diego Mesa Fashion Program. From being named as finalists in the Aquarium of the Pacific’s annual Trashin’ Fashion Contest, to being selected to present a garment at the Costume Society of America’s Design Symposium, and landing a job with an international premium fashion company, Mesa Fashion students are making their mark.
Casa Grande, AZ --- The Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institution Educators (AHSIE) has announced the election of Dr. Paloma Vargas as AHSIE Council President for the 2022-2025 term. Dr. Vargas’s leadership and expertise will be valuable in achieving AHSIE’s mission of supporting practitioners through sharing best practices, collaboration, engagement, and professional learning.
San Diego, CA ---- On Saturday, April 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Mesa College will host “Jumpstart Your Success”, a FREE community event for prospective students, their families and friends. Attendees are asked to RSVP, and will have an opportunity to learn more about Mesa College and the San Diego Promise FREE Tuition Program. Jumpstart will include campus tours, workshops, resource fair, demonstrations, and presentations to showcase the diversity and depth of the programs and services that Mesa College offers.
October 17, 2017
On Friday, October 20, San Diego State University (SDSU) will hold their annual War Memorial Ceremony to honor veterans who died while serving in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. This will be the 21 annual wreath-laying ceremony, and has been expanded to include and honor service members involved in events since World War II.
Author and Mesa College Professor Lisa Shapiro will be the keynote speaker at this year’s ceremony which will take place at the campus War Memorial on Aztec Green at 9:00 a.m. Shapiro, being the author of upcoming book, “No Forgotten Fronts, From Classrooms to Combat,” has had the opportunity to research and read the late San Diego State professor Dr. Lauren Post’s collection of letters known as the World War II Servicemen’s Correspondence Collection 1941-1945. This has given Shapiro an up close and personal look into the lives of the service officials and their families during the time of the war and how Dr. Lauren Post’s letter project, the Aztec News Letter, connected thousands through writing.
When asked about the letters she researched, Shapiro claimed, “The letters written to one beloved professor describe an American perspective of war that shines with idealism, determination, raw grief, and the power of friendship.” She added, “These intimate, first-person accounts capture honest, in-the-moment reactions to war that resound with heartache and gratitude.”
Shapiro’s book will be published April, 2018 by Naval Institute Press and will include more insight to the WWII letter collection mentioned.
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Jennifer Nichols Kearns
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Mesa College Culinary Arts alum Inno Pamaran was recently gifted funds by the San Diego Mesa College Foundation. Each year, the Foundation provides funding for departments at Mesa College to use how they see fit. Tonya Whitfield, Professor of Culinary Arts at Mesa College, had kept in touch with Inno, and was aware that he was facing challenges in scaling his businesses.
The total straight-line flight distance from Santiago de Chile to San Diego, CA is 5,465 miles. For Catalina Henriquez, this distance shrinks or elongates, depending on her longing for home, or for seeing the faces of her grandparents Manuel and Orietta. The life of Cata, as she has been lovingly called, was completely transformed when she and her family moved to this coastal and border city in the United States in 2017.
San Diego Mesa College is hosting events throughout the week for Veterans Celebration Week. Today, students gathered to learn more about veterans’ experiences at the Supporting our Deported Veterans panel. Specialist Hector Barajas spoke along with our District Board of Trustee Peter Zschiesche, and Case Manager for the Employee Rights Center Marisol Turincio.
