HBCU Clears Graduates' Student Debt
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Talk about a graduation surprise 🎓 This HBCU celebrated the occasion by forgiving more than $375,000 in student debt for all 166 graduates.
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That is WONDERFUL. Give them a chance to be excellent.
I agree. I just want to give a shout-out to Wilberforce University to literally cancel student debt for its graduates. I wish every college could...
COMMUNIST REVOLUTION *flips table*
@@annilator3000 how brainwashed do you have to be to think communism is when free education.
more the BS. where da F is my free gibs???
I would cry happy tears if all of my student debt would be cleared like that!!
Wow!!!!! This is a heaven sent congratulations .. We do not suffer student debt in my country, The Philippines. I graduated without any debt. So much respect for the Graduates of America especially to this University and to all those Organizations that helped.
I’m crying happy tears for them 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😭. Congratulations 🍾
I am crying. That is amazing!!
This made my day! Truly amazing gift 🎁....👏👏👏👏👏
These will prolly be the most generous alumni they've ever had!! 🙏🏾
Even better, more will give back knowing that they looked out in this fashion.
And some of the most successful
There are not many universities that can't do this and wilberforce is truly real
It's not "can't" it's "won't".
@@jane_doughnut agreed
@@jane_doughnut EXACTLY!!
It's an HBCU, it doesn't have the money of most private universities and the STILL did this. That's amazing!
Universities not only get State funding and large tax breaks but also spend million of dollars on sport programs and still pull in mass amounts of capital. Few Universities are struggling and many could do this.
I literally have tears in my eyes. I wish education was free to all.
Unfortunately some people in the congress think free education is socialism
Yeah sure spend the money of the people to make sure you get a good job
It used to be free in Australia. Then conservative governments decided to adopt the American model. The quality of education has suffered because university is now just marketed as a place to get your piece of paper. People pay, they expect the paper. So standards for passing are dropped so that everyone gets their “product”. So for us, the days of University as a place to produce informed, active and inquiring citizens has gone.
No only to blacks
cry more communist
this gave me chills. you know someone in that audience was really going through it and burst into tears when he said they had no debt to pay back
To do this as an HBCU which doesn't get the same funding as most universities is AMAZING!! I'm so happy for them and so proud of Willberforce!!!!!
What are you talking about? They are funded through the state and government. Our tax dollars are paying this.
You need to educate yourself.
@@cruzinandcashin Read what the comment said....
@@Ocean-yl4do I did what are you talking about.
The other schools have lost 9 funding sources so No that school gets more funding.
How more universities don’t do this is an absolute shame. Graduating with debt after college is one of the biggest failures this country is leaving behind as a legacy of how higher education has become a financial burden, and, subsequently a long-term debt that in some cases costs more to obtain than you may benefit from.
Much praise to this college👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Shame on prestigious universities, the best starter they can give to student is always debt
This made me ugly cry happy tears! What an amazing gift to these young people!
Same
This is truly amazing
No student should even be forced into debt in the name of education.
Yes they should, education isn’t free it’s not a right. It is a privilege. If you want free education somebody will be paying why should $ come out of my pocket to pay for your education?
Sokrit lun because an educated society is a productive society? As much as you can all claim but muh free market and privilege you seem to forget that social welfare, healthcare and public education are services provided by the government paid for by our taxes, forcing students on debt would not be carried not just by them but also their families meaning their parents would carry their debt and even if they die those debts would also stay with them and even if they live through they will be forced to pay those debts even if they have families of their own thus perpetuating a cycle of poverty where every person is trapped in that.
No developments will be put when students are put into debt, more of them will end up on Amazon warehouses forced to work on dirt poor wages to pay off those debts instead of working what they studied for.
That statement of yours is the height of inhumanity that I have never seen since Stalin and Hitler and I will only hope that you get a reality check.
Marlo York Rodriguez all I see is excuses and not taking responsibility. You just want freebies.
Sokrit lun being forced to debt is personal responsibility? Being forced to poverty is personal responsibility? Please enlighten me about this personal responsibility, isn’t personal responsibility is seeking education so that you won’t be poor? Isn’t personal responsibility is seeking a job that is fitting to your qualifications and not being forced to take a job that is because it’s convenient? Obviously you are trolling for attention so I will not entertain you.
@@sokritlun1624 Education should be equal and free. Saying that education should come at a high price only the rich can afford is classist
This is such a wonderful way to graduate university. Congrats!
Me, from a country where college is free: "Cleared student what?"
Which country?!
@@nijagunadarshan2529 any European country
@@nijagunadarshan2529 Ireland, but I believe most EU countries provide free college education.
Well dang, time to move!
🤣🤣🤣 lol
Wow, to the viewers not in america, let me just how big of a deal this really is, almost unheard of. There are people in their 40's and 50's who still have not paid off their student loans because of the predatory interest rates. Congrats debt free graduates!
Come on this can't be real 🙂
@@jackpack4711 no it's true, but most Americans don't make the real effort to pay them off. Only the min
@@jackpack4711 My mom finally just finished paying off her student debt at 45, it is real.
No student should ever be forced into debt. We need to make education free.
Ha!
there is NO such thing as FREE education your paying for it one way or the other. STOP SAYING FREE!!
@@gene6839 Either use taxes to pay for it OR destroy the College-Industrial-Complex. Your choice. Do not let them rip students off.
@@taylorh.3484 Where do you think taxes come from?????? The government has no money. They tax us more and more in order to pay for education and everything else.
@@Rinzor0 Of course not. I've always paid school taxes despite my kids going to Catholic school. Can you just imagine the tax increases should we send everybody to University for free??
This is how college graduation should be for everyone in this country. It should be a celebration of what you’re moving on to and not a reminder of the looming debt that will hang over your head for a decade.
What a blessed start to a career journey, crying tears and joy for all the graduates. Live boldly and confidently but always be humble.
Now, if only we could reroute some of the gargantuan, bloated budget thrown at the military to do this for ALL students, we might actually reap some long-term benefits for everyone.
truly. i saw a stat that said it would cost a few billion dollars to pay for it. but alas americans don’t want to pay for anything but their own success and have been really just brainwashed to believe that socialist practices like free healthcare and education are evil, when they bring good to their communities and the world.
Whether you like it or not, wee we need the military. Can’t get caught off guard we have way too many enemies.
@@MiVidaBellisima the issue with that is the u.s military gets exactly $864 BILLION dollars funneled into it. not counting the 8 billion dollars the u.s has funneled into the israeli military. exactly 3% of the u.s military can cure poverty in america. now you try an explain to me why the military needs HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS when people are starving?
I cant imagine how happy the students have been who were struggling a lot financially. It must have been like God blessed them truly with this miracle.
This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time.
Yes, free education. Everyone should be entitled to it.
Than that education is meaningless. Everything has a price, from time to money. A price must be paid. Now what about the other students that came before them and paid off the school.
Everyone who is eligible for it**
@@dominicj7977 Everyone deserves a chance, life is not a business.
@Emma Burner I get that, but it is important that people are allowed to educate themselves regardless of how they are doing financially. Restricting education is a recipe for class division and poverty, something we have plenty of in the UK and US as a result of doing such things in the past.
@Emma Burner “don’t require higher education....well paid.” i really hope you’re in support of the $15 minimum wage or else this argument is completely brain dead. bc the only jobs i can think of that don’t require higher education is working fast food- fast food jobs where the lowest minimum wage in america is $6. yea...idk about you but that’s not well paid, nor enough to live off of.
Why am I crying? To the director of the university, you will be blessed with a thousand folds. This batch will truly be successful and won't forget your kindness. In the future, this batch will pay it forward the goodness and consideration that the admin did. Who knows one of them will sponsor poor african american students..right?
Universal Education.... it's a force of peace!
This is D-DAY June 4th.... I may not agree with the 'Lincoln Project,' but they do have a Nice AD today if you go look you tube.
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Feel bad for the students who would have graduated this year debt free but failed and so have to graduate next year...with debts! 😭
Wow. This is what the world needs to be.
What free
The world is alredy like this, america fall behind
Lol, we get paid to go to university. Yes, we get paid. The world doesn’t need to be like this: you Americans need to learn humility and learn from the world, and stop thinking you’re ahead of it. Starting from your own comment.
P.s. that’s not to say that the rest of the world is better either: some places may be better at offering free stuff, but then lack things you have in other fields. It’s not so simple: one can’t just compare like that of course, it has to be a holistic exercise. Just wanted to put that in case I was misunderstood: I am sure America actually leads in certain fields. We all need to learn from each other.
@ken cur I mean if we’re going to address your pure anecdote, america is one of those nations that are bad in other fields already, mathematics below OECD average, etc. Do you think we’re going to have a famine if we make education free? Just joking, but still man I can’t really see your point when we’re the richest nation in the world, and could just allocate our current spending away from the military. If we still for some reason cannot pay for it, increase corporate taxes, and for the tax brackets, increase the further on the wealthy, like those who make 300,000-500,000$ yearly, etc. also, what country are you from?
Thia is amazing, All these student are off from a huge burden. In return the students will work hard to make their university and family proud.
This is such a beautiful graduation gift for these students and the happiness is truly deserved. Now if only other Universities just followsuit...
CONGRATULATIONS WILBERFORCE!
CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES!
"All you have to do now is put it on (your crown 👑) and go out there and let them know you are here!"
🙏🏽💪🏾🎓🖤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is great, though it's sad that such a thing only happens randomly through elective and optional actions, rather than public policy.
It’s sad that we live in a country where is a privilege to go to an Ivy League University rather than a right. The past four years of you know who have taught me one thing. We need to invest more on education especially in poor communities.
Huh? How can it be a right to attend specific universities?
@@SunnySJamil look at her grammar, she needs it.
Bruh if everyone got to go to ivy schools they would really be ivy.
The top students by test scores don't get to go to the fanciest schools, unless their family is rich. There aren't enough scholarships to support our best minds every year.
Every year we don't educate people like that is a waste of talent, and a second rate student takes their place because their parents are rich.
@@carrieullrich5059 their are if you look/lucky enough
If only every universities could be like this
This should be made a mandatory practice in universities across the entire world, especially America and in poorer communities
already the case in Europe
Dear God Thank You!!! I don't know one person there, but I feel the sigh of Freedom in their cheers. What a BEAUTIFUL BLESSING!!!! Start Your Lives Financally Free Beautiful Black Students!!! Oh my Heart!!!
✨🌟Asè Namaste AMEN🌟✨
💗💞💗💞💗💞💗💞💗💞💗
This is a nice gesture. But it is also misleading. The bulk of student debt is to the government and banks they took loans from. These students wouldn't have made it to graduation if they owed the school a huge sum of money. The school cannot forgive debt to banks or government loans. $375,000 divided by 166 students is approximately $2,200 per student. In 2021, the average student graduates with $37,000 in debt. I think it is quite cruel to lead these graduates to think they are debt-free. They may not owe the school anything. But they still have loans to pay. A publicity stunt is all this really is.
Too bad most of those students debt is not to the university itself. He doesnt have the power to forgive federal loans to students.
Also 375k for 2 classes is not much. Average student owes at least 25k
Isn't this a private university? Pretty sure they provide a lot more loans than the federal government in this case.
@@boogiedownbronx73 I wouldn't say it's "not much"... That could be a really nice down payment on a car or a way to pay off a lot of other debt.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen
I love how there are rightoids in the comments just responding 'uh uh akshually it would be too expensive to make education free', and seems like they need an education and a history lesson themselves.
comrade? or just a d-de- democrat 🤢?
OMG. This is wonderful
America is something else...
this should be free, but instead they put students in massive debt.
@@coagulatedsalts4711 well you know their reason why they don't want to help students because communism, socialism, and red scare, and against the free market, they will tell you education is a privilege when other nations in the world has worked on making education a right.
@@marloyorkrodriguez9975 right. because we all know communism and socialism is when free education. i’m sorry, but the conservative party are clowns LMAOOO
also i’m not criticizing you so pls don’t get offended you are 100% right.
Oh my gosh. There is hope some where on this planet. Make the most of it children!!!
Meanwhile, my university doesn't decrease the tuition even if we're having online classes..
This being portrayed as a feel good story sucks
american 😞 this should’ve been a thing from a long time ago. we have the means to do so, we just don’t
Feel sorry for those students who worked numerous jobs while in school, to not enter into debt and paid their tuition already.. if they had known! They should get something too.
Me too. I saw a few in this vid that had gestures of disappointment. Like "oh well"
They got something better than what money can buy: The ability to hold their head up high, knowing that they worked on their own for every bit of their success today!
P.S. Each student only owed around $2.26k on average, so if they paid for all that upfront, it would still hurt but probably not massively.
Class of 2019 be like 😭😭😭😭😭⚰⚰⚰
These students will give back to the college in ways that will build success for the college. This is how a Christian college does it to be a blessing in this troubled times. The university worldwide should learn from them.❤❤❤❤❤
What kind of dystopia do we live in where this even needs to be a story in the first place
capitalism
This is a great gesture, I'm happy for all the people who will start their life free of college debt. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure some of these students busted their a$$ working 2-3 jobs and didn't have a life for years just so they don't go into serious debt for their education. Some others had families who spent all their saving on said education... Where is their compensation? Socialism doesn't make people equal
Who cares. At the end of the day you don’t have any debt, and are able to have a fresh start.
Imagine the guy who payed debt a week before this
Not understanding all of the particulars, but Big Ups to this institution for going well beyond teaching a class & handing out a diploma
Incredible example for society at large
bruh imagine students that pay their debts exactly before graduation.
won't they be able to get it refunded? idk how it works in the US
@@caaaaats9890 tbh this doesn't happen enough to know😭
The kids who worked 2 part time jobs so they didn't have to go into debt be like:
*ok*
Good for them, too bad my university wouldn't do this. Well at least I get to go out of my own choice so they don't get to drown the life I never got.
Congratulations on making National News Wilberforce!!!! Love it!!!
This is so amazing!! 👏👏
This made me cry! I am happy these students get to start their life debt free but absolutely horrified Americans even have to go into debt, just to get an education in the first place!!! America is a truly awful place to live. I am so incredibly glad, I don't live there!!!
Imagine you graduated the year before 💀
Best way to show your appreciation is to put the education to good use...if you can build a business and give back please do so, if you end up in a high end job thats cool too...dont chill tho and relax because you have no student debt...PLease hit the floor running! If at all possible and good luck 👍
Can you image the alumni pay it forward to the next batch and the next batch do the same. How amazing will that be.
Those who didn’t get into debt are like “wtf”.
I know right. The good students are like, why be financially responsible...
@@izumocore people like you are disgusting why can't they be happy for there less privileged classmates. All about me me me. Going to university is not about being financially responsible most people can't afford a higher education you can't pay for it with summer job this ain't 1940-50.
@@izumocore What's financially irresponsible about graduating with debt in a system that's largely for profit?
This is so beautiful, that’s a community truly invested in the success of them as a whole.
Marvelous. Wilberforce has an Accounting department ? One of their students would know that IRS still regards a " loan forgiveness " as " taxable income ." They owe that.
This just saved so many people long term stress.
Friends of mine, close to mid-late 30s, are just getting out of debt. NY to live is expensive enough, the unreal expectations of $50,000 a semister as a personal example ;for me to make what i owe, is like an invisible mortgage.
I know people who will be in major debt who are walking panic attacks at times from it.
Paying to make a better, smarter, country, peers, society, whatever it might be shouldn't cost as much as it does[shouldn't cost anything, some nations thrive on unmotivated, uneducated, stressed people from pharmaucal companies, the school itself, vulnerability is good for many major/not so major -aspects of life. And this is a wackado status quo.
College is less and less what it was, and harder to afford. With technology, being good it can make schools ramp prices up ;that is on the university to be wise about where $ goes
But all college really is for most pepple is sitting in a room or looking at 15 faces in a chat room.
This makea me feel so good.
they don't have to look for jobs at an Amazon warehouse to pay off those debts.
@@marloyorkrodriguez9975 they are nurses, and teachers mostly.
Idle Hour I’m just sayin’ people shouldn’t be forced to work at an Amazon warehouse to pay off debts they deserve to make a fresh start in their lives.
@@marloyorkrodriguez9975 oh yeah i agree sorry if i misread it man
forgive? wtf does that even mean here!
Is the debt owed cancelled?
Refund fees to the deserving ones who managed w/o taking a bank loan
legit brought a tear to my eye.
Take note America. This is how you make your country stronger!!❤️❤️❤️
Congrats to all graduates.
May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. And may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. - George Jung
All colleges/ universities should be like this 😢😟
Oh cool. I just defaulted on my loans
Didnt Biden say he would make tuition free? Im certain I heard him say this.
Oh he did but after he got elected he obviously went back on his word.
Do you think it that easy to pass a law ? Creating laws takes months sometimes years...and the other a*** party don't help at all.
Dont hold your breath
@@Nyankotaku.Factory he was literally asked point blank if he'd do it, guess what? He said absolutely not.
@@masterhodir890 you do know even in canada it isn't FREE right ? Why would you expect that from US gouv that is way more on the right side ? Best he could do is probably regulate that trashy student loan US have . But since US is so affraid of a bit of socialism , it will never happen. Anyway, I don't recall him promising anything of the sort...you probably heard it from Bernie Sanders.
College should be FREE. It is in Europe, Rwanda and Brazil. If you are to be a healthy society you should have an educated population. Education should be seen as a RIGHT not a privilege for only the rich. That is how ancient Rome fell, uneducated slaves were the majority. America needs to join the rest of the civilized 🌍🌎
It is free a few schools but they are mostly small schools besides Miami Dade college. Many people in general gear away from small schools. Miami Dade college is free for anyone who got a 3.0 gpa or higher from any Miami Dade high school except medical students. They have over 100k students. I agree with you.
My school. Class of 1993.
Beautiful school. ❤️
Bless their heart, this is what a student need, an education that fully supports them, academically and financially
I feel inspired, in fact I feel so inspired that I now want to start the first HBCU west of Mississippi that is also Black-Own just like Wilberforce! Yes, I am aware of my skin color, but we don't have a HBCU west of Mississippi and so I wanna start one not trying to be a White Passing Savior" I just think it is time we got one here on the West Coast!
Never wrong to do right 🍀
This speech is amazing
This put a smile on my face and I’m sitting on 40K
Well done 🍀 their blessings don't detract from yours
That's beautiful
Support all our hbcus
Wow the end of the speech was so beautiful... I wish I had someone telling me this. "You have come from a mighty people..."
What an awesome privilege for the mostly black students of this college! I wish my white friends who went to college had such privilege.
Amen. Never forget you are princes and princesses of a almighty King!
Omg that got tears on my eyes
Need to go there
Amazing gratitude
The richest country of the world, all universities should do the same
What a chad
AMEN!!!!!!!!! Congratulations graduates! Black Excellence is a beautiful thing!
Good, now if all the other American universities would follow their example. College graduates should not start out their lives in debt with the financial deck stacked against them.
*At the least 🤢 UNIVERSITIES make the admissions PROCESS EASIER !!*
This is amazing! Props to the university for caring about their students like this.
Also, side note, that one white girl in the crowd during the speech 😅
Isn't it funny how we have to get into DEBT to get an education? Wild 😌
Harvard, Princeton, Yale...... What y'all got to say?!?!?
Yasss
OMG!!! Congratulations to the graduates!!! More power to this University!!!
Look at God. Thank you 🙏🏾 so amazing. Now somebody clear mine hahahaha.
Aaayyyy
Meanwhile, my university withheld my diploma from me because I owed 25 cents still.