{"id":293304,"date":"2020-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/mesa-college-provides-over-200000-in-assistance-to-students-via-emergency-aid-3\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:00:00","slug":"mesa-college-provides-over-200000-in-assistance-to-students-via-emergency-aid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/mesa-college-provides-over-200000-in-assistance-to-students-via-emergency-aid-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesa College proporciona m\u00e1s de $200,000 en asistencia a estudiantes a trav\u00e9s de ayuda de emergencia"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of Monday, April 20, San Diego Mesa College has begun the process of distributing over $200,000 worth of emergency aid, scholarships and meal vouchers to Mesa students.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mesa College has raised over $43,000 through its Mesa College COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund<\/a>, has provided nearly $2,900 worth of meal vouchers and is distributing nearly $163,000 in scholarships to students. Additionally, Mesa has distributed laptops to over 200 students.<\/span><\/p>\n

“None of this would be possible without the generosity of our donors – consisting of faculty, staff, alumni, community partners, and even students themselves – who continue to come forward to support our scholarships and emergency fund the ensure that our students can continue their education during this time,” stated Mesa College President Pamela Luster.<\/span><\/p>\n

El Mesa College COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund<\/a> was established within a matter of days following the stay-at-home-order, and to date, Mesa has received over $43,000 for the fund. Within 24 hours, nearly 2,000 students applied for aid, with $18,750 already distributed, assisting over 125 students. Mesa provided $2,900 worth of meal vouchers to 115 frequent users of The Stand – the College Food and Clothing Pantry<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

This past week, Mesa College announced the 2020 Annual Scholarship Awards winners,<\/a> where approximately 191 scholarships worth $163,000 are being awarded. 181 Mesa students are receiving awards, 41 of whom are receiving more than one award. Due to the financial impact of COVID-19, Mesa donors approved the advanced release of scholarship awards, allowing Mesa to provide 100 scholarship checks, weeks before students would normally receive them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As of Monday, April 20, San Diego Mesa College has begun the process of distributing over $200,000 worth of emergency aid, scholarships and meal vouchers to Mesa students. Mesa College has raised over $43,000 through its Mesa College COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, has provided nearly $2,900 worth of meal vouchers and is distributing nearly $163,000 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":293302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Mesa College provides over $200,000 in assistance to students via emergency aid","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12360,11551,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duplicate","category-news","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}