The ASI Cougar Pantry serves all CSUSM students in an effort to decrease food insecurity on campus. The pantry stocks a variety of dry and canned goods, limited produce, milk, and toiletries. A service and initiative of the ASI Board of Directors, the ASI Cougar Pantry is managed by a team of students, interns, volunteers, and staff.
Each currently enrolled CSUSM student can visit the mobile distributions and Fresh Market Mondays. All you need to bring is a face covering and your student ID or digitial ID.
Who: Any currently enrolled, CSUSM student
What: Due to the success in our free food box program and in our efforts to provide food
resources to our currenty enrolled CSUSM students, we will be continuing this program
through the spring semester! We will be giving out 100 food boxes each month!
When: April 5th and May 3rd (while supplies last and first come, first serve)
Where: The Wufoo form below (will open when boxes are available)
Who: Any currently enrolled, CSUSM student can come by for FREE groceries!
What: Drive up, have your student ID (digital or physical) out, have your mask on. Stop
at the tent and pop your trunk. Someone from our staff will load a bag of groceries
in your trunk!
When: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm on Wednesdays
Where: Campus Way Circle
Who: Any currently enrolled, CSUSM student can come by for FREE groceries!
What: Students unable to make it to the Wednesday distributions can make an appointment
to stop by for a free, premade bag of groceries! Visit appointments.csusm.edu to sign in and make your appointment! Once logged in, choose new appointment and choose "Cougar Pantry Produce Distribution" from the center
list.
When: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm on Thursdays
Where: Campus Way Circle. Look for the white, ASI canopy.
Who: Any currently enrolled, CSUSM student can come by for FREE groceries!
What: We are partnering with the San Diego Food Bank to bring back Fresh Market Mondays!
When: 8:00 - 10:00 am on the first Monday of every month!
Where: Campus Way Circle
During the week of Spring Break, we will be hosting distribution on Wednesday, March 24th but will NOT be offering appointments on Thursday, March 25th.
Campus will be closed Wednesday, March 31st and distribution will be cancelled that day. On Thursday April 1st, we will offer extended hours for appointments from 8:00am - 12:00pm.
Starting, Thursday, April 8th our Thursday appointments will be taking place from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm after reviewing student survey feedback and appointments trends.
In support of CSUSM's difficult but urgent decision to delay face-to-face classes
this spring, ASI will delay its mobile distributions and pantry pick-ups until February 17th. The decision is a result of the high number of cases of COVID-19 that are still
impacting our region. In San Diego County, the virus is rated as widespread and our
region continues to be under stay-at-home orders.
Students and staff have been prepping for the start of mobile distributions this semester
and working out the details surrounding our food box distributions which will launch on February, 1st. ASI will provide an update about the food box program on Monday (1/25/21) as we
finalize the process.
ASI would like to recognize that the ASI Cougar Pantry mobile food distributions are
a vital resource for many students. We were looking forward to reopening this service
but are thankful for the opportunity to join in the effort to keep our community safe
and healthy.
As COVID-19 cases in San Diego County and California continue to rise, it is with an overabundance of caution that we in ASI have made the difficult decision to cancel the remaining distributions this semester. We did not make this decision lightly as we know the ASI Cougar Pantry is a vital resource for so many of our students.
For additional information and to view the complete memo, please visit the Memorandums website.
Hours of Operation
The ASI Cougar Pantry is closed for the winter break and will resume operations on January 27, 2021.
Contact Us
760.750.4990
cougarpantry@csusm.edu
