Have any of you unlocked the key to getting out of college debt?

I am the executor my aunt's estate. She died last week. Her will requests setting up a scholarship at the local college but from what I can tell when they did that for my uncle who died in '82 only a couple kids got a thousand bucks and the rest went poof. So I'm planning to first help those that I know who have college debt and are willing to accept help or that I am a cosigner for. I have nine candidates. Just waiting for the death certificates.