San Diego Community College District announced that it will be expanding its San Diego Promise program from 200 students to 800 students for the 2017-2018 college academic year during a press conference at San Diego Mesa College on Dec. 6.

Wearing Flora boards, neo pixels, fiber optic filaments and other electrical elements, models will literally light up the stage during San Diego Mesa College’s first on-campus fashion show in the LRC Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 5 p.m.

Featuring original art made by students, San Diego Mesa College’s fall semester Student Art Gallery Exhibit will open with a reception and art sale on Thursday, Dec. 1 from 4 to 7 p.m. in room D-101.

This season, several San Diego Mesa College athletic teams made it to the California Community College Athletic Association playoffs.

In an effort to decrease the effects of poverty, hunger and homelessness for students on campus, San Diego Mesa College is opening “The Stand” – a new space that will provide students with essential items for everyday life.

Once it is in full operation during the spring semester, students will be able to pick up three items per week from The Stand food pantry and professional clothing closet on the third floor of the Student Services building.

San Diego Mesa College’s Office of Communications will be holding a casting call in MC151 and the Mesa Commons Mezzanine on Thursday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Seeking to tell stories that reflect the diversity of Mesa College, the Office is looking for students, faculty and staff who would like to participate as the subject of videos, photographs, biographies for the website and articles in our online Newsroom.

San Diego Mesa College’s Associated Students held a Thanksgiving Feast on Nov. 22 as a way to provide a festive meal to 85 students on campus who may not otherwise have been able to celebrate the holiday.

Students enjoyed a variety of traditional Thanksgiving foods, had chances to win opportunity drawings for gift cards and bonded as a campus community at the feast.

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.