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Problem:Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education. Bethune–Cookman University Betsy DeVos was met with raucous boos as she reached the lectern to deliver her commencement remarks at Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday. 
  
 For nearly the entire time the secretary of education spoke, she was booed, shouted at, and met with calls of "Go home!" from students and audience members. 
  
 About two minutes into DeVos' speech, the university's president, Edison Jackson, stopped her to address the students disrupting it. 
  
 Jackson said degrees would be mailed to students if their behavior continued. 
  
 "Choose which way you want to go," he said. 
  
 DeVos restarted her speech, but the threat went unheeded as boos picked up again. DeVos powered on, sticking to prepared remarks. She addressed some of the opposition to her speaking at the historically black university in Daytona Beach, Florida, asking for those critical of her to hear her out and voicing her support for historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. 
  
 "We support you, and we will continue to support you," she said. 
  
 DeVos released a statement after the speech addressing BCU graduates. "I was grateful for the opportunity to speak with and honor the graduates of Bethune-Cookman University...I have respect for all those who attended, including those who demonstrated their disagreement with me," the statement read. 
  
 The weeks leading up to her speech were marked by vocal opposition from students, civil-rights organizations, and Florida education groups, who say she does not understand the history and significance of HBCUs. 
  
 President Donald Trump met with leaders of HBCUs in February. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais On Tuesday, petitions were delivered to university leaders urging them to disinvite DeVos from the commencement ceremony. 
  
 "Secretary DeVos has no understanding of the importance, contributions, and significance of HBCUs," said a Change.org petition signed by more than 8,000 people. 
  
 Both DeVos and the Trump administration have endeavored to engage HBCUs in conversations about higher education, meeting with leaders of HBCUs and voicing support for their contributions. 
  
 But their efforts have been marked by gaffes and uncertainty about the administration's plans to help better serve the institutions. 
  
 After meeting with leaders of HBCUs in February, DeVos ignited controversy with a statement that called HBCUs "real pioneers when it comes to school choice." 
  
 She implied that HBCUs and school vouchers, of which DeVos is a fierce supporter, similarly afforded students better options. 
  
 HBCUs "are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality," she said. "Their success has shown that more options help students flourish." 
  
 She failed to acknowledge that many HBCUs were created because black students could not attend white segregated schools. In other words, they weren't providing better options — they were the only options for black students. 
  
 DeVos later posted a series of tweets clarifying the racist history that necessitated the emergence of HBCUs. 
  
 In a statement last week, President Donald Trump seemed to indicate that key funding for HBCUs might be unconstitutional and therefore scrapped. Experts saw his comments as a signal that certain funding for HBCUs was at risk. Trump later pledged his "unwavering support" for the schools. 
  
 Watch video of the speech: ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201705/1543/1155968404_5429250881001_5429002569001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Graduating seniors boo Betsy DeVos at commencement in Florida 
  
 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Hundreds of graduating seniors of a historically black university here booed and turned their backs on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as she struggled to deliver her commencement address over the raucous crowd. 
  
 "Let's choose to hear each other out," DeVos said, straining to be heard at Bethune-Cookman University's graduation. "We can choose to listen, be respectful and continue to learn from each other's experience." 
  
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 But most of the students at the private university remained with their backs turned as the crowd applauded. A man pumped his fist in the air while he was escorted out by security, soliciting more cheers. 
  
 University President Edison O. Jackson took back the lectern and tried to quiet the crowd, threatening to end the graduation. "Your degrees will be mailed to you. Choose which way you want to go." 
  
 Many — although not all of the students — eventually took their seats. DeVos stressed she was eager to engage especially with those who disagreed with her. She pledged the Trump administration's commitment to historically black colleges and universities, citing a recent proposal to restore funding for year-round Pell grants as one example. 
  
 “I am at the table fighting on your behalf, and on behalf of all students across this great nation,” she said. 
  
 DeVos also noted she planned to visit the home and grave of the university's revered founder, Mary McLeod Bethune, to pay her respects — a comment that drew especially loud boos. 
  
 Before DeVos spoke, Jackson had recognized another Trump administration attendee, senior policy director Omarosa Manigault, who also got catcalls. Jackson warned attendees: “Ladies and gentleman, please, you don’t know her, nor do you know her story." 
  
 But few relented. 
  
 The university's invitation to DeVos has snowballed into a major controversy for the college administration, with the NAACP in Florida calling on Jackson to resign and teachers unions gathering thousands of signatures in opposition. 
  
 It didn't help that the ceremony came just days after the Trump administration seemed to question the constitutionality of a federal financing program for HBCUs in his signing statement on the budget. 
  
 Trump on Sunday walked back that challenge and restated his “unwavering support” for the colleges. 
  
 While the NAACP and unions organized a small protest outside the downtown convention center ahead of the noon graduation, it was the students and their families inside the venue who made the biggest statements. 
  
 Students and alumni returned over and over to their sense that DeVos had little understanding of their life experiences. Several said they believed she would make it harder for them and other students to get financial aid or to pay back their college loans. Some stressed they had attended traditional public schools, which they feared would be undermined by DeVos’ promotion of charter schools and vouchers. 
  
 “I just feel like she cannot relate," said Jasmine Smith, a 21-year-old incoming junior from Fort Lauderdale. 
  
 Brent Franklin, who traveled from Los Angeles to attend his daughter’s graduation, said DeVos “knows nothing about HBCUs and how they were founded.” 
  
 For their part, university officials defended their invitation to her, saying their intention was to endear HBCUs to her in hopes of generating greater understanding and financial support. 
  
 Answering the NAACP's criticisms during a news conference, Trustee Chairman Joe Petrock said, “I challenge them to do what we’re doing: Raise dollars. Make a difference in the lives of students. Help them accomplish their dreams and their goals.” 
  
 Asked how courting DeVos helped the school “raise dollars,” Jackson interjected: “We are always about the business of making new friends, and if you don’t have friends, it’s very difficult to raise money,” he said, adding that DeVos’ agency is in charge of billions in federal grants. 
  
 Jackson said he met DeVos during a gathering of HBCU leaders in February — the same event at which she alienated the HBCU community by characterizing the institutions as “pioneers” of school choice. Leaders and advocates of the schools accused her of whitewashing the country’s history of racial segregation, during which black students’ options for higher education were few or nonexistent. 
  
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 Albert Mosley, the school’s chief operating officer, said the school’s invitation should be seen as an attempt to enlighten her, rather than endorse her comments. 
  
 “We are very aware of the statement — the misstatement — that was made several months ago, and this is for Bethune-Cookman University an opportunity to engage the secretary, to engage and to educate the secretary about historically black institutions,” he said. 
  
 Administrators worked hard to control the message. Reporters were asked to arrive early, and then sequestered in a room within the convention center and instructed to wait briefly for the president to arrive at a news conference. He didn’t come for an hour and a half. 
  
 As POLITICO attempted to interview a man wearing academic garb, a university staff member interrupted, asking the professor if he preferred to go into a private breakfast. He said no. The staff member then asserted, “faculty aren’t being interviewed,” before signaling to another staffer, who insisted the reporter stay inside the room designated for media. 
  
 DeVos held her own, stressing the importance of listening as she sometimes struggled to project over the noisy, hostile crowd. 
  
 “The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger and your position stronger,” she said. 
  
 “We must first listen, then speak — with humility — to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don’t immediately or instinctively agree.” 
  
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Betsy DeVos was drowned out by boos when the education secretary attempted to deliver the commencement speech Wednesday at Florida's Bethune-Cookman University, Politico reports. According to Business Insider, students and audience members at the historically black university booed DeVos for nearly the entirety of her speech, even continuing to shout at her after university president Edison Jackson threatened to simply mail students' degrees to them. DeVos largely stuck to her prepared speech, saying the Trump administration will "continue to support" historically black colleges and universities. DeVos drew ire in the past when she suggested such institutions are historic examples of "more options ... provided to students," instead of the only option for black students barred from white schools. And last week, President Trump implied he may cut all funding for historically black colleges and universities.