Students graduating from a historically Black college in East Texas were told at their commencement ceremony that an anonymous donor had paid their balances.
Highlights
- Anonymous donor pays student balances owed to Wiley College in East Texas.
- The estimated total for the balances owed by the graduating class of 2022 was about $300,000.
- The 2007 movie “The Great Debaters” starring Denzel Washington was inspired by the 1935 debate in which Wiley prevailed over the University of Southern California’s nationally-known, powerhouse team at a time when the nation was heavily segregated.
- “We are constantly communicating with donors to assist students in these ways so that they can begin their after-college experience with less debt,” Herman J. Felton Jr.
- said in the news release.
- It said the estimated total.