Rick Ainsworth, the Center's director, as well as director of the MSP and MESA Engineering Program, acknowledges that moving into new Los Angeles area clusters, staying in synch with a transient group of school math and science teachers and tailoring the MSP to each school are daunting tasks. But we need to reach them younger and we need to grow our own. The new MSP is a good model to try and increase the numbers of competitively eligible students. Community College Program Expansion will also be full of challenges for MESA's Community College Program. Each community college matches MESA dollars to pay for a full-time MESA administrator who runs a MESA Center on campus.
Students help each other's study habits and achievements.
I'm really the go-between for students and faculty. I feel like a mom and they know they have an educational home. Gilly, who transferred from Southwestern to UC San Diego where she majored in biology, uses her first-hand experience and contacts to smooth out the demanding transfer process, which generally takes community college students three years to accomplish. For example, microbiology majors at UCSD require a higher level calculus course. They can save an entire year by taking it here.