Mesa College Dance will be presenting Dance Synthesis: An evening of Dance and Entertainment. This spring 2019 dance concert, held nightly at 7:30pm on April 18-20, features an all student choreographed performance at the Joan B. Kroc Theatre at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in San Diego. See Mesa College’s talented dancers take to the stage with energy, passion, and enthusiasm as they perform original choreography created by our student dance makers, including Mesa alumni Chelsea Roquero.

On March 20th, the Fashion Department’s assistant professor Jordyn Smiley, and her class took the initiative of making reusable bags for Mesa students to utilize during the Farmers Market.

When Mesa Alumna Hasti Ahmadi first emigrated from Iran to start her college journey at Mesa in Spring 2015, she had no idea what field she wanted to pursue. After taking several courses, including architecture, she decided to make architecture her course of study. Her newfound passion, along with guidance from the Architecture faculty and Counseling Department, led Ahmadi to complete all requirements to transfer to University of California, Berkeley.

On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, Mesa College held the Grand Opening of the newly remodeled Fine Arts Building. The redesigned building includes an art gallery, an art history lecture room; studios for drawing, digital graphics, sculpture, ceramics and painting; and workshop spaces to support the shared used of art equipment, material, and supply resources.

San Diego Mesa College President Dr. Pamela Luster will visit Sacramento today to discuss the importance of addressing community college students’ basic needs such as food and housing insecurities and homelessness.

Dedication of new Center for Business & Technology (BT Building) at San Diego Mesa College, providing a contemporary new home for Mesa’s business, computer information, digital technology, fashion, hospitality and web development programs.

On Saturday, March 2, Mesa College will host multiple interactive booths on EXPO Day at Petco Park, via the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering. EXPO Day, now in its 11th year, is a FREE day-long celebration of STEM in San Diego, where non-profits, educational institutions and corporations that hold exhibits and provide activities for children K-12. The Science Festival’s mission is to engage and encourage kids in science and engineering and work with parents and teachers to inspire today’s students to become tomorrow’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) innovators.

At the end of last semester, the Olympians brought home numerous awards from the last two tournaments of 2018. Mesa won 3rd Place in Parliamentary Debate and 5th overall at The Griffin Tournament at Grossmont College. Just over a week later, Mesa traveled north to Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut where they won 2nd place in the Novice division at the largest and most competitive event of the year: PSCFA’s Fall Championship tournament (see below for a full list of achievements).