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The Denver Post
The Denver Post
Elizabeth Hernandez

Colleges rethink how to address increasing student hunger: 'Can’t afford to eat'

DENVER — Metropolitan State University of Denver’s newest strategy to address student hunger is Rowdy’s Corner — a 1,000-square-foot former campus convenience store turned free-food-and-supplies stop for students.

Not only is the space new, but the attitude around it is reinvented, too.

The Auraria Campus institution is intentionally avoiding calling the location a “food pantry” in an attempt to shed the stigma students may have around the term and encourage them to use the offerings shame-free.

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