Student Life
All full-time students (students enrolled in 12 or more units in a semester) are eligible for a free bus pass for transportation with the Norwalk Transit, Metro, Foothill Transit, Sunshine Shuttle and Montebello Bus Lines. Negotiations between the Rio Hondo College Board of Trustees created this program as early as 2006, which was proposed by Gary Mendez, Governing Board Member and followed by staff member Dr. Andy Howard. The program was named the Rio Hondo College Bus Pass Subsidy Program, and has since been dubbed "GO RIO" and officially began during the 2006–2007 school year. In 2012, the school also received a $500,000 federal grant to run a shuttle bus around campus.
The official student newspaper of the college is titled El Paisano.
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