California and other states began blocking colleges from withholding students' transcripts for unpaid bills five years ago.

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

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation offers institutional loans with a 7 percent interest rate. The company has explained to investors several times how its loan program helps them comply with ...

College transcripts are vital documents not just for students but also for employers and colleges. Students need them to show both what they have studied and how they performed. Employers want them so ...

Colleges with harmful transcript ransom policies refuse to release student transcripts due to unpaid tuition, on-campus parking tickets, books, fines or fees. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger ...

The much-maligned college transcript is finally going digital. A small group of private firms are seeing increasing demand for their repositories for e-transcripts, as colleges move away from paper ...

As the battle rages on regarding the non-release of Mitt Romney’s income tax data with Sen. Harry Reid claiming that the GOP presidential candidate hasn’t paid any taxes for ten years, it’s ...

College transcripts are horrible. I say this not as a columnist but as an employer. Whenever my nonprofit policy group advertises a position, we get hundreds of résumés. Every applicant is a college ...

We all know the way we fund college in this country is a mess, and that our current student loan debt situation is unsustainable. As higher education costs continue to rise and the value of some ...

SPRINGFIELD - Graduates from Illinois colleges and universities may soon be able to access their transcripts even if they still owe money to the school they attended. The Illinois House on Tuesday ...

Now that the issue of the president’s birth certificate has been laid to rest (mostly), some conservatives are turning their attention to a new obsession: Barack Obama’s college transcripts. Last week ...

Transcript withholding can make it difficult for students to apply for jobs even if they’ve graduated, since they can’t prove to prospective employers that they have a degree. By Meredith Kolodner ...