Higher-education institutions in British Columbia unveiled a new service on Tuesday for transferring student transcripts over the Internet, a move the colleges say will save considerable time and ...

James Smith missed his final housing payment to the University of Massachusetts Amherst when he spent a year there in an exchange program on his way to a degree at the University of Minnesota.

More than 6 million former college students cannot access their college transcripts because their former school is holding the documents as ransom as a debt collection tactic. Many of them will get a ...

Starting July 2024, most colleges are no longer allowed to withhold transcripts if you owe an unpaid balance or defaulted on a student loan. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are ...

In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept ...

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The Office of the Registrar maintains the permanent academic records for students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs, excluding the School for Social ...

California law bans colleges from withholding transcripts for unpaid balances, but more than one-fifth of community colleges ...

Union Institute & University, a private online university based in Cincinnati officially closed June 30 after more than a year of turmoil. Now months after its closure, the university's dysfunction is ...

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona this month said colleges withholding transcripts from students who owe them money drives inequitable outcomes, marking the first time ever the nation's top ...

Academic transcripts, which students need to get jobs, transfer or go on to graduate school, are almost universally withheld over unpaid bills, sometimes for very small amounts. A few colleges and ...