Featured Events
Student Nurses Association Blood Drive
Nov 16, 2026 8:30 AM | Organization: Student Nurses Association Blood Drive - Student Nurses Association (SNA) is partnering with the American Red Cross to bring a Blood Mobile to campus, creating a vital opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to donate blood and help save lives! This partnership not only serves the community, but also helps nursing students develop critical skills in public health advocacy. The American Red Cross will be arriving on campus and set up with accordance to their safety policies and those set by the school. Trained staff will be on site for any blood collection and for any questions that individuals may have about donating to the American Red Cross. Nursing students and members of the Student Nurses Association will be volunteering at this collaborative event. We expect the number of individuals to fluctuate depending on how many students and staff we have sign up for donating blood.
Pasifika in Entertainment
Nov 16, 2026 6:00 PM | Organization: Arts & Lectures Get your tickets here! Navigating Culture, Language, & Performing Arts in Disney's Live Action Moana The release of Disney’s live-action Moana film involved local expertise and talent from CSUSM and our surrounding area in San Diego and greater Southern California. Audiences will learn about the making of the film through the perspectives of the Oceanic Cultural Trust, a group created by the film company to serve as cultural consultants on Oceanic language and performing arts. CSUSM faculty Dr. Grant Muagututi’a served as the lead cultural consultant for the film. His work focuses on the need for Oceanic language conservation efforts through mainstream popular media, independent documentary film, community partnership programming, and in higher education institutions both locally and abroad. He, along with others involved in the film, will offer reflections on their specific roles in making the live-action film. Members of the Oceanic Cultural Trust and actors from the film will engage audiences with behind-the-scenes stories and live-action musical and dance performances exclusively for CSUSM to inspire everyone to reimagine how grassroots cultural arts education can shape more inclusive experiences of higher education and impact popular media representations. CSUSM students: Free Faculty/staff/alumni: $5 Community: $10
U Hour with Frank: Paws & Relax
Nov 17, 2026 11:45 AM | Organization: Veterans Services Take a break during U-Hour to recharge and connect with Frank, CSUSM's 2-year-old facility and therapy dog. As a low-allergy goldendoodle, Frank is on campus to provide comfort, stress relief, and plenty of friendly head pats for students and staff alike.
Chow on Deck w/ CSTEM!
Nov 17, 2026 12:00 PM | Organization: Veterans Services, CSTEM Looking to connect with local STEM leaders and employers? Veterans Services and CSTEM invite you to an outdoor cookout on the Epstein Family Veterans Center Deck. Enjoy free food and music while networking in a relaxed, informal setting with local industry partners, CSTEM faculty, and military-connected students. Bring your appetite and your curiosity—everyone is welcome!
Capturing Complexity
Nov 17, 2026 6:00 PM | Organization: Arts & Lectures Get your ticket here! Theater as a Means of Self-Exploration and Reconciliation Join us for a staged-reading presentation of “Pride: Mortal BEINGS part 1,” a one-person play written and performed by Terrell Donnell Sledge, a San Diego actor, writer, director, advocate, empowerment coach and CSUSM theatre arts lecturer. The story is an alternative telling of the fall of Lucifer – from Lucifer’s perspective – hinging on the questions of free will, love, loyalty, suffering, suicide, forgiveness and redemption. After the performance, Sledge will be joined by Stephanie Sledge – an artist, associate clinical social worker and CSUSM alumna – for a conversation about narrative representation and creative expression for self-exploration and healing. Stephanie will interview Terrell about the process of writing the play as a form of self-preservation when he was navigating academic environments prone to stereotyping and erasure of Black male identity. Guests will depart with the building blocks for harnessing their own creativity as a therapeutic tool. Sponsored by SubTeXt; co-sponsored by the City of San Diego through the San Diego Artist Incubator series, and TD Sledge Empowerment Coaching Website: terrelldonnellsledge.com CSUSM students: Free Faculty/staff/alumni: $5 Community: $10 Event is in Arts 111
