{"id":906,"date":"2026-05-12T17:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:52:58","slug":"us-universitys-commencement-speaker-reveals-he-will-pay-off-students-final-year-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"US university\u2019s commencement speaker reveals he will pay off students\u2019 final-year loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anil Kochhar hopes textile graduates of North Carolina State can leave with \u2018greater freedom to pursue goals\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Anil Kochhar, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/northcarolina\">North Carolina<\/a> State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-universities\">University<\/a> donor, gave graduates of the school\u2019s Wilson College of Textiles a lot more than just words of wisdom when he delivered their keynote commencement address recently.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian American entrepreneur also announced that he would pay off any student loans taken out by the college\u2019s graduating pupils during their senior year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/north-carolina-state-commencement-speaker-paying-off-student-loans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anil Kochhar hopes textile graduates of North Carolina State can leave with \u2018greater freedom to pursue goals\u2019 Anil Kochhar, a North Carolina State University donor, gave graduates of the school\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=906\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}