CSUB Fall 2025 Commencement Ceremonies When: 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Dignity Health Arena, 1001 Truxtun Ave. Admission: The ceremonies require tickets provided by graduates By the Numbers 1,137: Total number of students receiving degrees for the fall 2025 semester 983: Bachelor\u2019s degrees 147: Master\u2019s degrees 7: Doctoral degrees in educational leadership<\/p>\n
When Victoria Arriaga\u2019s father started his own business in 2021, Mondragon Finished Cabinets, she knew she wanted to be involved in some way.<\/p>\n
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Joseph Luiz is a writer\/marketing and communications specialist at CSUB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CSUB Fall 2025 Commencement Ceremonies When: 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Dignity Health Arena, 1001 Truxtun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,15,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-90768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90768","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=90768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}