San Diego Mesa College has announced a new partnership with California LAW that will create a pathway for Mesa College students to complete their education and enter the legal profession. Cal LAW collaborates with community colleges to encourage diverse students enter the legal profession in order to represent the diverse population of the state of California. Mesa College will begin accepting interested students into its Pathway to Law School program in Spring 2021. Community colleges such as mesa partnering in the program were chosen due to their high commitment to equity, demonstrated by college leadership and resources that provide transformative educational experiences and support for students on a pathway to a law career.
Add writing a book to Professor Michael Harrison’s impressive list of activities and interests. Most people at Mesa College know him as a Spanish Professor, a member of the LGBTQ+ Task Force, the Co-Advisor for the Mesa Gender-Sexuality Alliance and even as a tenor with the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus. In his “spare time” though, he is a comic book fan. Really. Since forever. And, he loves superheroes in comics. And Comic-Con. Just ask him. His face will light up.
Due to continuity of instruction and rigorous adherence to guidelines and safety practices, 100% of Mesa College’s 2020 graduating Dental students who were seeking employment, were able to get hired this past summer, despite the global pandemic. Even though Mesa’s Dental Assisting students were not allowed to return to campus until June 22, 2020, during that time frame, the Dental Assisting faculty continued to engage and instruct students in their laboratory courses, remotely, through videos, virtual simulations, case studies role playing and discussions.
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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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.
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.
