{"id":239954,"date":"2026-07-10T04:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239954\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:55:10","slug":"pennsylvania-colleges-of-passhe-pledge-to-cover-eligible-students-full-tuition-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239954\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Colleges of PASSHE Pledge to Cover Eligible Students\u2019 Full Tuition | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"PA Lawmakers Introduce Bills to Reform PASSHE\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Renata Stiehl<\/p>\n<p>(WENY) \u2014 The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, or PASSHE, announced that they will cover the rest of eligible students&#8217; tuition after federal grants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The &#8216;PASSHE Pledge&#8217; is designed to cover remaining tuition costs for students that received both a federal PELL\u00a0grant and a PA\u00a0state grant. Eligible students would still have to pay for other expenses, like room and board.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Each PASSHE\u00a0college will work to fulfill the pledge with their own funding as well as external donations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The initiative will begin in fall 2027.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More information about the pledge can be found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.passhe.edu\/news\/releases\/2026-07-09_PASSHE-universities-pledge-to-cover-tuition-for-eligible-PA-students.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renata Stiehl (WENY) \u2014 The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, or PASSHE, announced that they will cover&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[296,139,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-239954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-local","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}