MSJC's Banning Campus Nearly Full for Spring Semester

The following was submitted for publication by Mt. San Jacinto College:

Two Mt. San Jacinto College students staffed a table in front of the library on the San Jacinto Campus on Jan. 22, 2013 to welcome students on the first day of the Spring semester.

Jamie Goodwin and Sly Robinson, two peer tutors for the library, were equipped with maps, brochures and other informational materials and answered a variety of questions students posed. They said they helped 25 students in the first hour.

“We’ve been pretty busy,” said Jamie, who will graduate with two associates degrees in May. “I like to help students that were like me in the first year. I was so lost.”

MSJC opened for the Spring 2013 semester with 14,304 students filling 93 percent of the seats in the district overall. The San Gorgonio Pass Campus  saw 96 percent of its seats filled. At the Temecula Education Complex, 95 percent of the seats were taken. At the Menifee Valley Campus, 94 percent of the seats were filled and 91 percent of the seats at the San Jacinto Campus were taken. Online classes were nearly full at 96 percent.

MSJC’s 1,700-square-mile district runs from Temecula to the San Gorgonio Pass. It has campuses in San Jacinto, Menifee, the San Gorgonio Pass and an education complex in Temecula. The district also offers online classes and classes at off-campus locations.