{"id":235421,"date":"2026-03-25T06:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235421\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:29:06","slug":"free-tuition-program-launched-at-cal-state-dominguez-hills-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235421\/","title":{"rendered":"Free tuition program launched at Cal State Dominguez Hills \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cal State Dominguez Hills announced Tuesday a new initiative guaranteeing free tuition and mandatory fees for eligible students beginning in fall 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The program, known as the Toro Tuition Pledge, will cover four years of tuition for first-time freshmen and two years for transfer students, university officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The pledge is available to California residents who qualify for federal Pell Grants or have a comparable level of financial need. Officials said students must enroll full-time and maintain satisfactory academic progress to remain eligible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CSUDH&#8217;s mission is rooted in affordability and accessibility, and the Toro Tuition Pledge builds on our longstanding work of expanding opportunity to ensure every student can succeed,&#8221; Interim President Mary Ann<br \/>Villarreal said in a statement. &#8220;This effort reaffirms our commitment to transforming students&#8217; lives and economic prospects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>University officials said the program will rely largely on existing financial aid resources, supplemented by institutional funding to ensure tuition and required fees are fully covered for eligible students.<\/p>\n<p>The pledge does not cover other costs such as housing, parking or textbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cal State Dominguez Hills announced Tuesday a new initiative guaranteeing free tuition and mandatory fees for eligible students&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[15,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-235421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-education","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}