SVA Chapter Highight: Mesa College San Diego

The Student Veterans Union at Mesa College San Diego has begun to set up student veterans unions at the other schools in the San Diego Community College District, meeting with faculty and veterans officials at all three schools. They recently received the $100,000 grant from Wal-Mart and are working on forming focus groups of veteran students and faculty to discuss the proper uses of the grant.Mesa College, where the Student Veterans Union is headquartered has had four members elected to Associated Student Government Senate seats in our most recent elections. The four seats represent a third of the senate, a body which represents the interests of the 35,000 students which attend Mesa College each year. The SVU also was awarded " Most Improved Club of the Year", an award which encompasses all upstart clubs as well as all established clubs, as this was their first semester in existence. The SVU now has now formed a President's Advisory Committee in which three of its members meet with the President of Mesa College monthly to discuss items pertaining to veterans, active duty personnel and their families. Also, the newly formed Veterans Advisory Committee, now consists of a Representative of SVU, who is the only non-faculty member of the committee. The SVU will have tables at several veterans functions over the summer and is continuing to meet with the faculty, while simultaneously keeping the veteran students in the district informed of issues pertaining to them. -->